NASHVILLE (AP) ‘ A 12-year-old boy was killed while riding an ATV on a berm being constructed for a new railroad bed in Wilson County. Cody Choate’s father, Damon Austin, said the boy had been riding ATVs since he was a young child and considered him an experienced rider. Choate was riding in front of…

McMinnville resident and Rutherford County native Thomas Butler ‘Tommy’ Carney Jr., 76, was born Aug. 15, 1930 and died July 6 at NHC Healthcare McMinnville following an extended illness. A retired partner and funeral director/embalmer at High Funeral Home, a United States Air Force veteran of Korea and a member of Central Church of Christ,…

Orville C. Young, 81, of Murfreesboro died Monday, Aug. 6. He was a native of Granite City, Ill., and the son of the late Carl F. and Laura Wein Young. Mr. Young was a retired manufacturing engineer and member of Grace Lutheran Church. He was a U.S. Army veteran serving his country in the Korean…

J.L. (Jay) Hillis II, 44, of Nashville died Aug. 5. Preceded in death by his father, J.L. Hillis Sr., he is survived by his mother, Marvette Hillis; grandmother, Audrey Carter; daughter, Paige Hillis Todd (Dathan); brothers, Kelly Hillis (Kim) and Christopher Hillis; sisters, Karen Hillis and Janet Hillis; grandchild, Laurel Todd; several aunts, uncles, nieces…

WASHINGTON (AP) ‘ Women are flocking to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Democratic presidential candidacy and men are doing the same for Republican Fred Thompson. Yet for all that support, both candidates are showing early vulnerabilities wooing voters of the opposite sex. Thompson, the former Tennessee senator and tough-guy actor on television’s “Law and Order,” gets 68…

KNOXVILLE (AP) ‘ It’s tough to beat the heat in Tennessee this week. High temperatures neared 100 degrees across the state Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. Humidity is making August heat even more oppressive, with the heat index ‘ a combination of temperature and humidity calculating how hot it ‘feels’ to humans ‘…

By Kathryn Lopez Celebrated Newsweek columnist Anna Quindlen recently mentioned a YouTube video about a question that falls into a common abortion trap. The filmmaker behind “Libertyville Abortion Demonstration” asks pro-lifers how much jail time women who seek abortions should receive if Roe v. Wade were to be overturned. What people who ask this question…

By William Rusher When the American people rose up in wrath a couple of months ago and stopped dead in its tracks a bipartisan effort to ram a phony immigration “reform” bill through the Senate, I warned that our triumph was inspiring but probably short-lived. It is extremely difficult to focus the attention of the…

Letter to the Editor TO THE EDITOR: Running red lights may be a problem, but red light cameras will be an even bigger problem. One rule proposed is after 30 days you don’t have the right for an appeal. This is after you are mailed a ticket. The ticket could be lost in the mail…

By Duane Sherrill I’m looking at the long list of schools designed by Upland Design Group architects, the folks who designed the soon-to-open Centertown School. The list is 51 names long, most involving multi-million dollar projects, with buildings dating back to 1979. They have a long track record and were entrusted to our $7.3 million…