By LISA HOBBS Elected officials got their first look at an ordinance that would adopt a Model Code of Ethics developed by the University of Tennessee Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS). The ordinance, will set down ethical guidelines for full-time and part-time elected or appointed officials and employees, as well as separate boards, commissions, and…

By JAMES CLARK Members of the Warren County Rescue Squad have joined a massive manhunt for an 86-year-old Cannon County resident who was still missing at 7:30 p.m. last night. The car of Viella Estes, an Alzheimer?s patient, was discovered empty at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday. Since that time, authorities from Cannon and surrounding counties have…

By JAMES CLARK Megan Hobbs is set to walk the stage and receive her high school diploma tonight. So what?s the best part of graduating and leaving Warren County High School? ?I?ll get to use my phone whenever I want to,? said Hobbs referring to the school system?s policy prohibiting cellphone use during regular school…

By JAMES CLARK DeeDee Banerjee thought it was odd when one of her college friends called and asked for her date of birth and Social Security number. ?I asked him ?What are you trying to do, get a credit card in my name’ said Banerjee. ?But he told me to trust him and that he…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ? A man accused in a bank robbery that left two tellers dead of gunshot wounds and two more wounded was charged with capital murder and faces the death penalty if convicted, authorities said Tuesday. William Merriweather Jr., 30, is being held without bond in the deaths of Eva Hudson and Sheila…

May marks the beginning of West Nile Virus season in Tennessee, and the Department of Health will once again monitor test results from mosquito pools across the state. In 2006, Tennessee saw an increase in the number of human West Nile cases over the previous year and the most since 2003, when 26 cases were…

Wilbert Thurman Padgett, 77, passed from this life, Sunday May 13 at his residence of an extended illness. A Warren County native, Mr. Padgett was born Aug. 20, 1929. He was a retired employee of Century Electric Company, a nursery farmer, and a member of the Friendship Baptist Church. He was married 51 years to…

McMinnville resident and Van Buren County native Smith Linell Snider, 77, was born June 2, 1929 and died May 13 at his residence following a one-year illness. A retired employee of Carrier, a United States Army veteran and a member of the Jehovah?s Witnesses, he was the son of the late John William and Grace…

Smartt Station resident and Hammond, Ind., native Jewel Rickey Knowles, 49, was born May 24, 1957 and died May 13 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville following injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. A maintenance worker at Morrison Tool and Fab and a member of Calvary Worship Center, he was the son of Barbara…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Jerry Freeman Tolbert, 60, was born Aug. 6, 1946 and died May 13 at his residence following an extended illness. An employee of Walker Motors and a member of the First Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic Faith, he was the son of the late Toy Freeman and Elsie Fay…