The Sacramento Kings chose Memphis Grizzlies assistant Eric Mussleman Friday to replace head coach Rick Adelman, ending a lengthy search to fill the NBA?s only coaching vacancy with one of the league’s most respected young minds. ?I know we?re going to be the best-prepared team in the league now,? owner Joe Maloof told The Associated…

Finishing third in last week?s second flight was the team of Danny and David Davis, Mike Hawkins and Ronnie Hobbs. Pictured, from left, are T.R. Ball, Hobbs, Danny Davis, Earlene Steakley and David Davis. Hawkins was unavailable for the photo.

Second place in the second flight at last week?s tourney went to the team of David Krech, Jerry Bentley, Matt Meeks and Brandon McClain. Team members are pictured along with Covenant Academy director Earlene Steakley and tournament director T.R. Ball.

CENTER HILL ? Fishing is fair. The water temperature is 81 degrees; lake is stable. A few bass are being caught while flipping lizards around bushes. Topwater baits also have been producing fair, early and late around schooling shad. Bluegill fishing is great with crickets around bushes on gravel banks in 5 feet of water.…

McMinnville resident and Dekalb County, Tenn. native Clarence Aubry Moore, age 79, was born July 3, 1926 and died June 3, 2006 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn. He was the owner and operator of Moore Lumber Sales, Inc., a sales representative for Miller Lumber Company, a member of Warren Lodge #125 F&AM, a…

Morrison resident and Warren County native Audrey May Burks Davenport, age 85, was born May 12, 1921 and died June 2, 2006 at River Park Hospital. A retired retail sales clerk at Roses Department Store, a homemaker, and a member of Caney Branch The Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late Charlie H.…

Business Highlights from the Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – Job growth faltered in May, with employers boosting payrolls by just 75,000. Yet the nation’s unemployment rate dipped to 4.6 percent, the lowest since the summer of 2001. The latest snapshot, released by the Labor Department on Friday, offered a mixed picture of the jobs climate.…

Chuck Shepherd Wheelchair-confined Richard Paey committed almost exactly the same violations of Florida prescription drug laws that radio personality Rush Limbaugh did, with a different result: Limbaugh’s sentence, in May, was addiction treatment, and Paey’s, in 2004, was 25 years in prison. Both illegally possessed large quantities of painkillers for personal use, which Paey defiantly…

DECHERD, TN (AP) The bite marks of three dogs match the wounds found on the body of a woman, who died from hundreds of bites inflicted by the animals, according to authorities. Bite marks from a pair of Great Pyrenees dogs, belonging to Dr. Ephraim Gammada, and a mixed-breed dog owned by Ronnie Swann are…

MEMPHIS (AP) A mother has been charged with child abuse and neglect after police say she gave her 6-month-old baby away to a stranger. Police say Kimberly Lawrence, 23, gave little Kimmarta Lawrence to a 19-year-old woman she had just met Saturday after the woman, identified only as “KeKe,” commented that the baby was cute.…