BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) The U.S. command announced Saturday that it was sending 3,700 troops to Baghdad to try to quell the sectarian violence sweeping the capital, and a U.S. official said more American soldiers would follow as the military gears up to take the streets from gunmen. The 172nd Stryker Brigade, which had been due…

AUSTELL, Ga. (AP) A man died on the roller coaster Goliath, which reaches heights of 200 feet and speeds of 70 mph. A 45-year-old Alabama man died of an apparent heart attack after losing consciousness at the end of the newest roller coaster ride at the Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park. Michael Corry, of…

Chuck Shepherd In Yorktown, N.Y., in June, one spouse who was roughed up by the other during a domestic eruption tried (as sometimes happens) to talk police out of filing charges. However, the battering spouse this time was Emily Hanlon-Tarasov, a novelist, and the explanation of her husband (who was knocked unconscious when Hanlon-Tarasov angrily…

McMinnville resident and Maury County native William Allen (Bill) Hill, 80, was born Oct. 27, 1925 and died July 26 at River Park Hospital following an extended illness. The owner of Plateau Express Scrap Recycling and a member of Shellsford Baptist Church and Cumberland County Masonic Lodge, he was the son of the late William…

McMinnville resident and Cannon County native Everett Lee Turner, 90, was born Sept. 2, 1915 and died July 25 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville following a lingering illness. A retired employee of McMinnville Garment Company, a member of the Baptist Church, and a United States Army veteran of World War II, he was the…

McMinnville resident and Princeton County, Ala., native Billy Eugene Golden, 73, died July 27 at his home. A timberman and a member of the Baptist Church, he was the son of Robert E. Lee and Myrtle Irene Eakes Golden. He is survived by his wife, Margaret Floyd Golden; son, Billy Gene Golden of McMinnville; daughter…

HOUSTON (AP) YATES Rusty Yates lashed out Thursday at prosecutors who spent five years pursuing murder charges against his ex-wife, saying they misrepresented certain details of the day Andrea Yates drowned their five children. Rusty Yates told The Associated Press that Andrea Yates never told him, ?I finally did it? in her telephone call to…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) Doctors are testing a radical new way to help smokers quit: a shot that ?immunizes? them against the nicotine rush that fuels their addiction. That pleasurable buzz has seduced Mario Musachia into burning through nearly half a million cigarettes in half a century. Now the Madison man is among 300 people around…

KNOXVILLE (AP) The Tennessee Valley Authority is ready to pursue a study on completing a second nuclear reactor at its Watts Bar station ? the last nuclear plant to come on line in the United States, a top official said Thursday. Directors of the nation’s largest public utility will be asked Friday to approve $20…

NASHVILLE (AP) HCA Inc. shareholders have gone to court seeking to stop the planned $21.3 billion leveraged buyout of the nation’s largest for-profit hospital operator. At least four lawsuits have been filed in chancery court in Nashville, where the company is based, and analysts and HCA officials say they expect more over the deal to…