McMinnville resident and Warren County native Tilda Ollene Bouldin, 75, died May 23 at NHC Healthcare after an extended illness. A retired Rockford Textiles employee and a member of West Riverside Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late Jim and Susie Rogers Bouldin; and was also preceded in death by sisters Gladys…

Warren County resident and Dexter, Mo., native Leamon Cleo Hudson, 85, died May 22 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville after an extended illness. A retired manager at McMinnville Garment Co., a former Mayor of Centertown, and a former member of the Warren County School Board, he was a member of Centertown Church of Christ.…

Gallatin resident and Buffalo, N.Y., native Guy David Roberts, 48, was born March 13, 1958 and died May 19 at River Park Hospital following a sudden illness. A machinist with Murray Machines and a member of the Church of Christ, he was the son of Helen Pearl Holt Roberts of McMinnville and the late John…

McMinnville resident and Hamilton County native Carl Edward Snodgrass, 82, was born Nov. 12, 1923 and died May 20 at Select Specialty Hospital in Nashville following a four-and-a-half-week illness. A retired employee of Carrier and charter member of the Victory Free Will Baptist Church, he was the son of the late Roy and Edith Yates…

WASHINGTON (AP) Veterans Affairs officials did not fully heed warnings to tighten access to personal data for the millions of U.S. veterans, investigators said Tuesday, a misstep that could lead to one of the nation’s largest cases of identity theft. At the same time, the Justice Department said it was not told about the theft…

LOS ANGELES (AP) WASHINGTON George Washington has one of the most recognizable mugs on the planet. But what was inside that head? The History Channel documentary ?Washington The Warrior? attempts to answer this and other questions about the formative years of America’s first president in a two-hour special airing Memorial Day, May 29, at 8…

COVINGTON, Ga. (AP) A man ran over three toddlers and two adults with his car in the parking lot of a McDonald’s restaurant Tuesday, police said, and one witness described him as having a smile on his face. Lanny Barnes, 46, was in custody and charges against him are pending. “All indications are that he…

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) John Allen Muhammad had grand plans to extort millions of dollars from authorities in the 2002 Washington-area sniper shootings so he could set up a camp to train children how to terrorize cities and “shut things down,” accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo testified Tuesday. Asked whether he believed Muhammad’s plans, Malvo said yes.…

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Osama bin Laden purportedly said in an audio tape Tuesday that Zacarias Moussaoui ? the only person convicted in the U.S. for the Sept. 11 attacks ? had nothing to do with the operation. “He had no connection at all with Sept. 11,” the speaker, claiming to be bin Laden, said in…