MEMPHIS (AP) ‘ Officials closed a major Mississippi River bridge between Tennessee and Arkansas for nine hours Monday after a pier under a small approach span settled several inches overnight. The approach span for the Interstate 40 bridge was still supported by other piers, so the most motorists might have noticed was a slight dip,…

By Kathryn Lopez If public opinion isn’t on your side, hit your opponent below the belt. This seemed to be the game plan for some Louisiana Democrats, who recently used religion to try and derail Republican rising star Congressman Bobby Jindal’s run for the governorship. In a commercial that debuted in mid-August, sponsored by the…

By William Rusher September is shaping up to be a major month for American foreign policy. President Bush, having quite responsibly (in my opinion) taken America into Iraq in 2003 to cope with what appeared to just about everyone to be a serious nuclear danger, quickly discovered that the danger was in fact nonexistent. He…

By James Clark If someone burglarized my home, I would want police officers to have access to the best equipment in the world in hopes of apprehending the culprit. I would expect nothing less than the person, or people, responsible to be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. If having a…

By Charlie Johnson I approve of most everything new McMinnville Police Chief Charlie Sewell has done to bring the local police department into the 21st Century technologically. I heartily approved of the purchase of the Segway, for instance, and like his innovative efforts to improve the department’s image and relationship with the community with police…

By Duane Sherrill While youthful drivers are blamed for having a large share of accidents, as evidenced by higher insurance rates and even a graduated license program in this state, that demographic of the driving public has been given false blame, fueled by urban legend that youths are hazardous to our highways. In actuality, youthful…

By Steve C. Stubblefield Under provisions of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veteran’s Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007, the Milk Income Loss Contract Extension (MILCX) Program extended benefits to dairy producers through the month of September, 2007. This change now permits the payment rates to be calculated at 34 percent from October…

By MarkThe July 2007 issue of NMPro, pages 39-42, shared ideas presented during The July 2007 issue of NMPro, pages 39-42, shared ideas presented during the January ANLA meeting. A multi-tasking tractor caught my eye, but some of us are already doing it. Mounting all parts of an Enviromist on the front with a spray…

Baby Girl Ashlynn Hailie Greer, daughter of Nathan and Tess Greer, was born June 20 at Middle Tennessee Medical Center. She was 21 inches long and weighed 9 pounds, 2 ounces upon arrival. Her grandparents are Joyce and Eddie Rackley, Lynn and Phyllis Cremeans, Tim and Rhonda Burnett and Gene Greer. She is the great-granddaughter…