By DUANE SHERRILL An accused rapist on the run for months was caught by the long arm of the law Tuesday, captured as he got off a bus in Akron, Ohio just two weeks after being added to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Top 10 most wanted list. Meanwhile lawmen are looking for the anonymous…

Gary Wayne Williamson, 60, of Watertown passed from this life suddenly Tuesday, Aug. 14 at his residence. He was born March 4, 1947 in Warren County and grew up in the Frog Pond community. He is the husband of Judy P. (Bratcher) Williamson, and was affiliated with Watertown Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Watertown. He worked…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ‘ The discovery of two more sets of human remains amid the wreckage of the interstate bridge that collapsed raised the known death toll to 11 and left only two more victims to be found. Navy divers continued to work the scene Thursday, as did the construction crew that was using cranes to…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ‘ NASA decided Thursday that no repairs are needed for a deep gouge in Endeavour’s belly and the space shuttle is safe to fly home. Mission Control notified the seven shuttle astronauts of the decision right before they went to sleep, putting an end to a week of engineering analyses and…

KNOXVILLE (AP) ‘ With the drought drying up its cheapest source of electricity ‘ hydroelectric power ‘ the Tennessee Valley Authority on Thursday announced another quarterly charge to offset rising fuel costs. TVA said it will assess a fuel adjustment fee of four-tenths of a cent per kilowatt hour effective Oct. 1. Residential customers can…

The state of Tennessee’s Web site has been ranked in Brown University’s annual e-government analysis as one of the top five state Web sites in the nation, along with Delaware, Michigan, Maine and Kentucky. Tennessee.gov moved up in the rankings from 11th place in the same survey in 2006. ‘One of the things we’ve sought…

By Cokie & Steven Roberts Mitt Romney is a very rich man. According to financial forms released this week and reported in major newspapers, the former Massachusetts governor earned between $17 million and $69 million last year from a list of investments that covered 47 pages. His immediate family owns trusts worth as much as…

By Gene Lyons If the Bush White House excels at anything, it’s keeping secrets. With the sudden departure of political director Karl Rove, who frequently leaked information to pet reporters for political purposes, the mystery about who’s responsible for what decisions can only deepen. Since the administration rarely tells the truth about anything, divining its…

By James Clark We don’t have to look any further than our public schools to realize the immigration problem we have in our county, and in our country. As I went to pick up my son this week, who is a proud first-grader I may add, I noticed the signs at his school are posted…