McMinnville resident and Davidson County native Yvonne Marie Robinson, 63, was born June 23, 1943 and died Feb. 25 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville following an extended illness. A homemaker and a member of Clark United Methodist Church, she was the daughter of the late Clark and Josephine Carrick Hancock. She was also preceded…

Lebanon resident and French Creek, W. Va., native Willa B. Brady, 88, was born July 12, 1918 and died Feb. 22 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville following a two-and-a-half-year illness. A homemaker, she was the daughter of the late Roy and Helen Smallridge Smith. She was married to Ruben J. Brady, who preceded her…

McMinnville resident and Rutherford County native Ruth Floyd Watson, 93, was born June 10, 1913 and died Feb. 27 at NHC Healthcare in McMinnville following an extended illness. A homemaker and a member of First United Methodist Church, she was the daughter of the late Wilmot A. and Rhoda Zumbro Floyd. She was married to…

Tullahoma resident and Hollywood, Ga., native Ora Lee Halcomb, 86, was born Sept. 6, 1920 and died Feb. 25 at NHC Healthcare in McMinnville following an extended illness. A homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church in Tullahoma, she was the daughter of the late Cornel B. and Ethel Franklin Shirley. She was married…

McMinnville resident and Fort Wayne, Ind., native Olive Helen Walker, 87, was born June 11, 1919 and died Feb. 26 at NHC Healthcare in McMinnville following an extended illness. A homemaker and a member of Christ United Methodist Church, she was the daughter of the late James and Hazel Hunt Rose. She was married to…

Tullahoma resident and McMinnville native Frank Houston McCormick, 60, died Feb. 24 at Harton Regional Hospital in Tullahoma after an extended illness. Retired from AEDC after 26 years of service, a former employee of McMinnville Police Department and special investigator for the Warren County Sheriff?s Department, he was a member of the Masons, Fraternal Order…

Cannon County resident and native Dovie Gunter Arnett, 94, died Sunday, Feb. 25, at Woodbury Health Care Center after an extended illness. A housewife and a member of Blues Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church, she was the daughter of the late Jim and Emmie Gunter. She is also preceded in death by her husband Phocean Arnett,…

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) ? Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it will build a $1.3 billion assembly plant in northeast Mississippi to manufacture its Highlander sport utility vehicle. Mississippi was chosen in a competition with Tennessee and Arkansas. Production is set to begin by 2010 and employment is projected at 2,000. The company said it expects…

Letter to the Editor TO THE EDITOR: The recent photo of a child molester was printed on the front page as an informative article on cellphone porn. What?s worse than phone porn ? newspaper porn? As parents, we need to protect our children from predators and lewd material in any form. Christians, churches and every…

Letter to the Editor TO THE EDITOR: In America, we have a two-party system of government. For a long time, we didn?t have that in Warren County. We are disappointed that our paper didn?t honor the fact that two representatives were invited to speak to a Motlow College class. One man?s picture was in the…