Rock Island native and Pensacola, Fla., resident Nadine Dunlap Saylors, 86, died May 27 at Sandy Ridge Care Center in Milton, Fla. A homemaker and a member of Fairfield Presbyterian Church in Pensacola, she was the daughter of Ramsey and Betty Adair Dunlap; and was preceded in death by her husband, Henry Saylors; brother, Joel…

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) – A safety system failed when tested at the newly restarted Unit 1 reactor of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant near Athens, but it didn’t result in a shutdown as a pipe burst did last week, plant officials said Tuesday. Terry Johnson, a spokesman for the Tennessee Valley Authority, said a problem…

ATLANTA (AP) – A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis ignored doctors’ advice and took two trans-Atlantic flights, leading to the first U.S. government-ordered quarantine since 1963, health officials said Tuesday. The man, who officials did not identify, is at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital in respiratory isolation. He was potentially infectious at…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Private security guards paid little more than janitors and restaurant cooks are guarding many of the critical security sites in the United States, usually with minimal or no anti-terrorist training, an Associated Press investigation found. The nation’s security industry found itself involuntarily transformed after Sept. 11, 2001, from an army of “rent-a-cops”…

NASHVILLE (AP) – Nearly a dozen people died in Tennessee traffic accidents over the extended Memorial Day weekend, according to preliminary statistics from the state Department of Safety. A total of 11 people were killed between Friday evening and Monday night in 10 fatal crashes, slightly less than last year’s total of 16 for the…

BARTLETT, Tenn. (AP) – A teenaged gunman shot two employees at a motorcycle dealership on Tuesday afternoon, killing one, and then died when his vehicle overturned while fleeing from police. The name of the shooter was not immediately known. He was identified only as a 17-year-old from Mason, about 20 miles northeast of Bartlett, which…