Cave City resident and Owensboro, Ky., native John Curtis Erwin, 55, died April 6 at his home A member of Glasgow Baptist Church, he attended Horse Cave Baptist Church, and was a 1969 graduate of Glasgow High School and a graduate of Samford University and Samford School of Pharmacy in Birmingham, Ala., where he was…

Jerry Davis Judkins, 68, of McMinnville died Tuesday, April 10, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville from cancer-related medical complications. He was born Dec. 3, 1938, in DeKalb County, was a retired nurseryman, a member of the 1958 graduating class and star athlete at Dibrell High School, and member of Whorton Springs Baptist Church.…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native James Larry ?Jimmy? Templeton, age 54, was born Sept. 9, 1952 and died April 8 at his residence following a short illness. An employee of Yorozu Automotive of Tennessee, a United States Army veteran and a member of Locust Street Church of God, he was the son of Jacklyn…

Former McMinnville resident and Alabama native Eugene T. (Bill) Walker, 75, died at Shands Regional Medical Center in Gainesville, Fla., after a brief illness. He lived much of his early life in the Viola and Morrison area. He was preceded in death by his parents, Will and Julia Gholison Walker; sister, Juanita Walker and Beatrice…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ? Heavy crop losses were reported throughout the Southeast on Wednesday, confirming fears that some fruit farms were nearly wiped out by last weekend’s frigid temperatures. In South Carolina, at least 90 percent of the peach crop was destroyed and officials said they would seek federal aid. “This is comparable to a…

NEW YORK (AP) ? Don Imus’ racist remarks got him fired by CBS on Thursday, the finale to a stunning fall for one of the nation’s most prominent broadcasters. Imus was initially suspended for two weeks after he called the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos” on the air last week. But outrage kept growing…

MEMPHIS (AP) ? A jury saw videos Thursday of former state Sen. John Ford pocketing stacks of cash counted out by an undercover FBI agent investigating public corruption in Tennessee. “You’ve earned yours, man,” the agent told Ford on one video clip after handing him a pile of hundred dollar bills. Ford is on trial…

By Cokie & Steven Roberts Iraq is such a monumental mistake that it often overshadows every other issue in Washington. But the capital is now grappling with two critical domestic matters, immigration and stem-cell research, that represent the best and the worst instincts of George W. Bush’s presidency. To his credit, the president continues to…

By Gene Lyons To some people, the themes of international politics are indistinguishable from those of professional wrestling. They see in the relations of nation states a ritualized melodrama of dominance versus submission, triumph versus humiliation. To them, every game’s a zero-sum game; millions of individual human beings are labeled “good” or “evil.” All conflicts…

By James Clark Gary Prater tells me Prater?s BBQ is officially pulling all its advertising on MSNBC because of recent remarks made by radio show host Don Imus. Somehow I think Gary is joking, although there was a growing list of sponsors who yanked their ads from Imus? show. The threats must have worked because…