FORT CAMPBELL (AP) – A Fort Campbell soldier testified Tuesday about finding a bloody scene where four Iraqis were slain last year and said another soldier told him later he had attacked the family. Sgt. Anthony Yribe, 23, was the first witness called as a court-martial entered its second day for Pfc. Jesse Spielman, who…

HUNTSVILLE (AP) – Authorities said a 16-year-old girl who called police to report that someone killed her adoptive mother was charged as an adult in the slaying of the woman, who was found shot to death in her bed. Jacquelyn Richardson is being held on $50,000 bond on a murder charge in the killing of…

CHATTANOOGA (AP) – Investigators arrested a former college student on a criminally negligent homicide charge in the death of her newborn son at a campus dormitory. Chattanooga and federal authorities Tuesday arrested former Tennessee Temple University student Melissa Powell in Calhoun, Ga., police said. Powell, 19, signed extradition papers at the Gordon County Courthouse before…

NASHVILLE (AP) – A man who copied hundreds of CDs and DVDs and sold them from the trunk of his car was sentenced to 10 months in prison for copyright violation. Decharmus Grover was sentenced Monday by federal Judge William Haynes in Nashville, according to a release issued Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney’s office. Grover,…

FAYETTEVILLE (AP) – A 6-year-old boy attacked by a Rottweiler was in stable condition Tuesday in a Nashville hospital, officials said. Kealan Doherty of Fayetteville was at a neighbor’s house when the attack occurred around 2 p.m. Monday. The child was flown by helicopter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, where he spent some…

By William Rusher To a casual observer, the antics of both parties in Congress may resemble the monkey house at a zoo, rather than any attempts at systematic (let alone sensible) behavior. But these are rational men and women, and what they’re doing is carefully designed to achieve specific goals. Take the Democrats. They swept…

By Jim Mullen I called my friend Tammy in Texas to tell her the exciting news ‘ that Lindsay Lohan had been arrested in Santa Monica, Calif., on a DUI charge. ‘Are you out of your mind’? she asked. ‘My entire county’s under 10 feet of water, I haven’t had power for three weeks, everything…

By Bill Zechman In the dark days of 1931, as the U.S and global economies were lurching toward the depth of the Great Depression, McMinnville entrepreneur-philanthropist William H. Magness Jr. committed to donate $60,000’a king’s ransom at the time ‘ to endow the building and future operation of the library and community house that has…

By Duane Sherrill If you pay much attention to court proceedings then you know it seems the defendant is afforded all the luxuries while the victims are left to be victimized all over again by the system. In addition to basic constitutional rights, we see defendants given the benefit of the doubt at every turn…

By J. Dale Beaty It doesn’t matter when it comes, it sure is fine when it happens. Lots of folks got more rain than I did last week, and some folks got less. The grass is starting to grow the crops look a lot better and some folks say they may even get a second…