KNOXVILLE (AP) BRYSON The day after the primaries found Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen touting his first-term experience Friday from the back of a pickup truck in Knoxville, a Republican town that helped elect him in 2002. Republican challenger Jim Bryson, meanwhile, was kicking off a 30-day bus tour in Williamson County aimed at reaching “all…

NASHVILLE (AP) FORD Now that Bob Corker has won a bitter three-way Republican primary for the U.S. Senate nomination, he will look to quickly mend the differences in his party. Democrat Harold Ford Jr., meanwhile, will hope GOP wounds don’t heal as quickly. Corker said Friday he has no regrets about the tough primary he…

Thomas Vaughn Now that the pageantry of local politics has played out again in Warren County, the implications of the election results are still being dissected and analyzed. One thing is certain, though. Political history happened in Warren County last week ??and women were in the forefront. Local attorney Lisa Zavogiannis made history by trouncing…

Centertown resident and Warren County native Clifford Wallace Dixon, 65, died Aug. 2 at his home. A pipefitter with Ford Motor Company and a member of Bates Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church, he served his country in the U.S. Army during World War II. The son of John and Dora Pennington Dixon, he was preceded in…

Murfreesboro resident, formerly of McMinnville, Ernest Carl Rigsby, 87, died Aug. 3 at Alvin C. York Medical Center in Murfreesboro after a brief illness. A retired Carrier employee and a member of First Church of God, he served his country in the U.S. Army during World War II. The son of Ernest and Martha Duncan…

Nannie Bell Burgess, 90, of McMinnville died Wednesday, Aug. 2 at NHC Healthcare in McMinnville. Born on Dec. 23, 1915 in Overton County, she was a homemaker and affiliated with the Baptist faith. Mrs. Burgess was preceded in death by her parents, Fate and Alice Burgess Mayberry; husband, Jessie Hershel Burgess; daughter Cezillia Barrett; four…

CHATTANOOGA (AP) A sign hanging in the window at Goody?s advertises the tax-free weekend that starts today. With three days of tax-free shopping for school supplies and clothes starting today, significant savings await shoppers throughout the state this weekend. Gov. Phil Bredesen has been busy touting this first-ever event, even making stops at a Target…

SELMER, Tenn. (AP) WINKLER A judge has refused to lower a $750,000 bond set for a woman accused of killing her husband, a small-town Church of Christ minister. Mary Winkler, 32, has been held since March 23, the day after her husband, Matthew Winkler, 31, was found dead of a shotgun wound at their home…

NASHVILLE (AP) Former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and will face Democratic U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. in November. With 71 percent of precincts reporting, Corker had 174,085, or 48 percent of the vote, to Ed Bryant’s 126,168, or 35 percent of the vote. Van Hilleary had 56,521 or…

Nat Hentoff How closely will the Supreme Court’s June mandate (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) on our treatment of detainees in Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere be followed? With bristling divisions in Congress — and many military lawyers in conflict with the administration — the answer is unclear. The Court ruled that Common Article 3, from the Geneva…