SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) Eva Guerra, whose 2-year-old daughter is missing, breaks out in tears as she looks for the girl Monday afternoon. Authorities stopped searching Tuesday for a 2-year-old girl missing from home for more than a day to focus on finding witnesses in the case. Smyrna police are investigating whether Analyce Guerra wandered away…

NASHVILLE (AP) In a new TV commercial promoting Tennessee tourism, a dashing young Elvis Presley drives his red convertible Corvette Stingray in a clip from his 1967 film ?Clambake.? But this time, the bouffant blonde riding in shotgun has a familiar Appalachian twang. Music icons Dolly Parton and Presley appear together in a digital insertion…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard Gov. Phil Bredesen paid a visit to Warren County yesterday to check on the storm recovery process and to offer further help from the state. Gov. Phil Bredesen made a stop in Warren County yesterday to confer with local officials to see if there?s anything…

Duane Sherrill For a man, childbirth is all about knowing where and where not to put your hands. For those who haven?t gotten the memo, the absence of any stories from me in the Sunday edition was not because I was terminated or because I?d gotten lazy. Instead, I was attending the birth of my…

TO THE EDITOR: I was repulsed by the fact three reporters from The Weather Channel trespassed on Warren County property to get their story. A woman died there. These ghouls will do anything to cover a story. Let?s hope they are fined a big amount and are given non-suspended jail sentences. Nothing less will do.…

TO THE EDITOR: I would like to say amen to the question-and-answer segment James Clark put in his ?Scoop? column dated April 21 about the tire recycling plant not coming to McMinnville. I am a business owner in McMinnville and was sick when I heard the McMinnville Board of Zoning had turned down an opportunity…

Donald Lambro WASHINGTON ? Expectations that the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hikes are nearing an end has re-energized Wall Street’s bull market — perhaps even Americans’ optimism about the economy. Last week’s stock rally, fueled not only by news out of the Fed but also by new corporate earnings and profit reports, was further evidence the…

TO THE EDITOR: I would like to let everyone know there are some wonderful people in Warren County. We lost our poodle, FiFi, in town recently but she is smart and she came back to the gas station where she had jumped out. Stacy Bonner was there to take her in and she did the…

Sean Joseph Brown, 25, of Tullahoma, died Saturday, April 22 at the Medical Center of Manchester. He was a native of Manchester and a construction worker. A graveside funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. today at Concord Cemetery in Tullahoma. Visitation with the family will be today from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.…

Spencer resident and Painesville, Ohio, native Patricia Ann (Pat) Myers, 58, died April 23 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness. A homemaker and a member of the Church of Christ, she was the daughter of W.C. and Alma Denton Davis. She is survived by daughter, Teresa Roberts of McMinnville; son, William Avery Myers…