CHATTANOOGA (AP) A man charged with killing his wife, stepdaughter and infant son while on parole for another murder has pleaded guilty. The guilty plea prevented Tony Harold Pope, 37, from being sentenced to death. Instead he was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the deaths of 36-year-old Andrea…

NASHVILLE (AP) Dell Inc. announced Friday it will add up to 1,000 jobs in Tennessee as it expands customer service operations. Dell already has a technical support call center, sales operations and a distribution center for the eastern U.S. in Nashville and a manufacturing plant making Dimension and OptiPlex desktop computers in the nearby suburb…

Lisa Hobbs Recently I got the chance to watch two very controversial movies and I have to say that I?m slightly disappointed. By the way everyone was acting about these movies, I was sure that while watching one I would have the urge to change my lifestyle and while watching the other I would burst…

Knoxville News Sentinel State lawmakers and the administration of Gov. Phil Bredesen missed a significant opportunity last week to help a number of Tennesseans burdened by a tax on food and to take a small step toward revising the state’s archaic tax system. The effort to increase the state’s tax on cigarettes while reducing the…

McMinnville resident and Scottsville, Ky., native Virginia Ray Wanamaker, age 87, was born March 31, 1919 and died June 1, 2006 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville following a sudden illness. A retired sitter and a member of the Mt. Leo Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late Boobie and May Willmore…

Virginia L. (Ginny) Washburn, 48, of Knoxville, passed away Thursday evening at UT Medical Center after a short illness. She was a member of the Episcopal faith. A 1975 graduate of Bearden High School and attended the University of Tennessee. She was free lance court reporter. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Aaron…

Smithville resident Joe Daniel Jones, 68, died May 30 at his home after an extended illness. A retired mechanic and a member of the Baptist Church, he was the son of the late Cephas and Grace Cantrell Jones; and was preceded in death by spouse, Nelda Sue Jones; and brothers, Charles and Roger Jones. He…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native James Russell Ramsey, age 66, was born Oct. 29, 1939 and died June 1, 2006 at River Park Hospital following an extended illness. A shop foreman for Shelton Automotive and a member of the East End Drive Church of Christ, he was the son of the late Doris and…

Cumming, Ga., resident and Warren County native died unexpectedly May 20. A retired horticulture teacher with the DeKalb County, Ga., school system, he was the son of the late Richard and Lala Turner Tittsworth. He is survived by his wife, Linda Pedigo Tittsworth; son, Lee Tittsworth of Cumming; sister, Elladean and Glendon Cantrell; nephew, Wayne…

Green Hill community resident Evelyn Marie Redmon Bratcher Wolf, 78, died May 31 at her home after an extended illness. A homemaker and a member of the Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late Donnie Edward and Samantha Emili Mitchell Redmon; sisters, Lucretta Redmon and Pauline McCormick; brother, J.B. Redmon; and son-in-law, Dorris…