By DUANE SHERRILL A father of six, and an accomplished local artist, has been shot dead by police in Fairbanks, Alaska, after the officer said the suspected serial thief pulled a gun on him. The fatally wounded man, Lucky R. Adams, 37, died from multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, the rounds fired from a…

Verdie (Rose) Pease, 59, a Grundy County native and McMinnville resident, died Aug. 28 at her residence of an extended illness. She was a homemaker and a member of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Pease is survived by husband Claude A. Pease of McMinnville; two daughters, Melissa D. Redmon and Amanda G. and husband Michael Ferrell;…

Graveside memorial services for Lorella (Hale) Knaser, 76, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at West Riverside Cemetery in McMinnville. She passed away July 31, 2006 in Ashtabula, Ohio. A Warren County native, she lived most of her life in Ashtabula and Lake counties of Ohio. The daughter of the late James and Leona…

McMinnville resident and White County native Howard Millard (Hoss) Whiteaker, 76, was born March 12, 1931 and died Aug. 29 at River Park Hospital following a two-month illness. A truck driver for 57 years where he was last an employee of Hillis Trucking and a member of the Baptist Church, he was the son of…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Harold Lively (Bud) Jordan, Jr., 63, was born July 14, 1944 and died Aug. 26 at Alvin C. York VA Medical Center in Murfreesboro following an eight-month illness. A computer engineer at Amdol Computers, a United State Army veteran of the Vietnam War and a member of the Church…

Manchester resident and Summitville native Berleen Whitman Prater, 82, died Aug. 28 at United Regional Medical Center. A homemaker and a member of Forest Mill Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late Buford and Nellie Travis Whitman, and was preceded in death by her first husband, Everett Scott; and second husband, Grady…

WASHINGTON (AP) ‘ Idaho Sen. Larry Craig is finding himself increasingly isolated from his political allies as more Republicans call for him to resign over his arrest in an airport men’s room. A spokesman for Craig denied widespread speculation in Washington that the three-term senator ‘ up for re-election next year ‘ was preparing to…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ‘ Republican Fred Thompson will officially launch his presidential bid Sept. 6 in a Web cast on his campaign site, followed by a five-day tour of early primary states. ‘I believe that there are millions of Americans who know that our security and prosperity are at risk if we don’t address…

NASHVILLE (AP) ‘ Summer’s last holiday is expected to be a busy time on Tennessee roadways with roughly 530,000 motorists expected to go somewhere for the weekend, according to AAA Auto Club South. Officials attribute the heavy travel to gasoline prices that average more than 40 per gallon lower than they did on Memorial Day…

By Gene Lyons The bitter but unmistakable truth about Iraq is this: From the vaunted “Petraeus Report” onward, U.S. policy will have one overriding purpose, deflecting blame for the ongoing catastrophe everywhere but where it belongs ‘ on President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Bush remains incapable of accepting responsibility, Cheney of admitting error. All…