McMinnville resident and Barbersville, Ky., native Ruby Charlene Cagle, 73, died May 13 at NHC Healthcare after an extended illness. A homemaker and a member of the Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late Robert and Bertha Cobb Perry; and was preceded in death by husband, Theodore Lester Cagle. She is survived by…

McMinnville resident and Van Buren County native Ova Mae Graves, 61, was born Aug. 11, 1944 and died suddenly May 11 at River Park Hospital. A homemaker, she was the daughter of Anna White Grissom of McMinnville and the late Clifton Kelso Grissom. She was married to Elburn Walter Graves, Jr. In addition to her…

Rocky River community resident and Grundy County native George Washington (Doug) Gross, 74, was born June 12, 1931 and died May 11 at River Park Hospital from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. A retired employee of the Powermatic Foundry and a member of Cumberland Chapel Freewill Baptist Church, he was the son of the…

McMinnville resident and Atlanta, Ga., native Elburn Walter Graves, Jr., 61, was born Aug.13, 1944 and died suddenly May 11 at River Park Hospital. A retired accountant with Ben Lomand Telephone Cooperative, he was the son of the late Elburn Walter and Doris Coleman Graves, Sr. He was married to Ova Mae Grissom Graves. He…

Chuck Shepherd A Texas jury decided in 1991 that Steven Kenneth Staley, now 43, should be put to death for killing a restaurant manager, but three days before his February 2006 date with destiny, psychologists testified that he is mentally ill, and the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a mentally ill person cannot be…

DENVER (AP) Called Alcatraz of the Rockies, Supermax in Colorado is hailed as the most secure prison in the country. Zacarias Moussaoui began serving his sentence there yesterday. Convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui began serving his life sentence at the nation?s most secure prison Saturday after U.S. marshals flew him overnight to southern Colorado…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A tipsheet from the National Funeral Directors Association tells its members to be prepared for animal sacrifices if they’re asked to handle a funeral for Hmong immigrants. “The visitation can go on for three or four days,” reads the tipsheet. “The spirit is believed to remain in the body until burial,…

NASHVILLE (AP) KYLE Gov. Phil Bredesen’s Cover Tennessee health care proposal has easily dominated the administration’s legislative agenda this year. That prominence stems not only from the plan’s three-year price tag of more than $300 million and the lingering shadow of the 170,000 people cut from TennCare last year, but because there just aren’t many…

KINGSTON, Tenn. (AP) R. Houston The father of two brothers accused in the deadly ambush of a sheriff’s deputy and a friend says authorities had been harassing his sons. “They pushed them as far as they could,” Clyde Houston told The Knoxville News Sentinel on Friday. “They pushed them over the bank. You kick a…

TO THE EDITOR: To the residents of Warren County and surrounding areas: On Sunday, May 7, our county experienced a tragedy. It is to our understanding that this tragedy is being linked to our longtime, family-oriented fundraising event, the Harrison Ferry Mud Bog. We indeed had a very successful event on Saturday evening prior to…