Murfreesboro resident and Coffee County native B.F. Wilson, 82, was born July 20, 1924 and died May 5 at his residence following an extended illness. A retired employee of Kawneer Co., a United States Army veteran of WWII and a member of the Church of Christ, he was the son of the late Manley Armstrong…

FORT DIX, N.J. (AP) ? Six foreign-born Muslims were arrested and accused Tuesday of plotting to attack the Army’s Fort Dix and massacre scores of U.S. soldiers ? a plot the FBI says was foiled when the men took a video of themselves firing assault weapons to a store to have the footage put onto…

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) ? Pentagon orders telling three 101st Airborne Division brigades to prepare for a return to Iraq didn?t come as a surprise. But the prospect of a longer deployment was another twist for families bracing to be apart from their soldiers. ?Just to think that they are going to be gone for…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ? When he found a handwritten filing with the signature ?A. Lincoln? while digging through an old box, Ron Elliot suspected he had found a long-lost piece of history. Elliot?s discovery was a court document believed to have been written by Abraham Lincoln in 1853 to his father-in-law?s law firm in Lexington…

ALGOOD, Tenn. (AP) ? An elementary school principal has been temporarily assigned to administrative duties after a paddling she gave to a student allegedly left bruises. The Department of Children?s Services launched an investigation into the disciplinary action at the K-8 Algood School after the boy?s parents reported the spanking to authorities. Algood School principal…

By Kathryn Lopez Is Mitt Romney ever going to address his Mormon roots? There are pros and cons to Romney not addressing his religious affiliations before the country, but it is not getting any easier to fight off the negative connotations a curious media hope to conjure up with irrelevant religious questions. Romney has yet…

By Morton Kondracke As Congress considers its next steps on Iraq War funding, it ought to heed the warning of the U.S. ambassador there: Giving Iraqis the idea that Americans are leaving the scene hurts — not helps — the slow process of Iraqi reconciliation. “The longer and louder the debate gets” in Washington, D.C.,…

By Jeanette Henderson For decades now, pro-life and pro-choice forces have been trying to make abortion a key issue in presidential elections. To date, there is no evidence their posturing and vehemence has made any difference at all, either to the outcome of the election or the furthering of the issue. By wasting all their…

By Duane Sherrill How much time, if any, will Mary Winkler get for killing her husband in his sleep? There has been quite a bit of speculation flying around after it was announced last week that Mary is asking for a judicial diversion following her recent conviction on the Class C felony of voluntary manslaughter…

In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition, this week?s plant, the Oregon grapeholly, is the best known of all the 178 new plants that the expedition collected. Neither Lewis nor Clark were well versed in plants, so President Jefferson sent them to Philadelphia for a crash course in Botany prior…