DALE STUBBLEFIELD Cassie Wanamaker delivers a pitch during Boyd?s twin bill against Community High School Thursday. The Lady Bronco softball team finally got to open its season on Thursday, playing host to Community High School. Boyd was originally scheduled to open the year on Tuesday against Webb, but due to rain the game had to…

ROB NUNLEY The Pioneers? Colby Killian scores on a Justin Bouldin single during the first inning of Friday?s baseball game against Cumberland County. WCHS won the game, 13-1 After dropping a pair of district games earlier in the week, the Pioneers won their second straight non-district contest on Friday night, routing the visiting Cumberland County…

CARTHAGE, Tenn. (AP) At least two school systems in Tennessee include in their curriculum a hunting and firearms safety course that was shot down by administrators at an elementary school concerned about its conflict with a zero-tolerance policy on guns. The Tennessee Hunter Education and Firearms Safety course operated by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency…

CHATTANOOGA (AP) Thousands of calls to Chattanooga?s 911 call center have been going unanswered, according to records examined after a caller was unable to report a kitchen fire because three of four dispatchers were taking breaks at the same time. With Stacey Hunter?s repeated 911 calls going unanswered, her 13-year-old son, Artterius Bonds, and 14-year-old…

George Plagenz “A policeman’s lot is not a happy one,” sings one of the characters in “The Pirates of Penzance.” He may be right. Every 37 hours, a police officer is killed in the line of duty in the United States. Want an even more startling statistic? Every 22 hours, a policeman commits suicide in…

James Clark Brutal murders aren?t supposed to happen to people we know. They?re always supposed to happen to someone else in some faraway place, or so the logic goes. Sadly, two people with Warren County ties have been shot to death this week giving faces and memories to our modern-day world of violent crime. It?s…

Morton Kondracke The Supreme Court is highly unlikely to take South Dakota’s bait and overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision. And for that, Republicans should thank their lucky stars. But South Dakota’s “direct frontal assault” on Roe — to use Gov. Michael Rounds’ (R) description — may well elevate abortion to the top…

Sam Allen To The Editor: As a retired employee of Middle Tennessee Natural Gas, which is a not-for- profit municipal corporation whose mission is to serve the public, I must respond to the writer who noted an increase in his natural gas bill and decided to attack the gas company. The letter appeared in the…

Tammy Patrick To the Editor: I am fuming after reading about the incident in the Green Acres neighborhood where Ethan Taylor was hit by a truck. I have an 11-year-old daughter who rides the bus as well. She came home that afternoon in tears and panicked about what she had seen. I am here to…

Jenny Harper If your child is like mine, the first thing on his mind after school is “snack!” Now that’s okay, except I want “nutritious,” and he wants “treat.” In trying to get kids to choose nutritious snacks, sometimes sneaky works. Like these Pumpkin-Carrot Swirl Bars. Homemade treats can be nutritious?and believe me, they can…