The engagement of Chelsea Leigh Conner and, former McMinnville resident, Derek Justin Hogencamp is being announced by the bride’s parents Stephen and Kandis Conner of Murfreesboro. He is the son of Sylvia Anderson and the late Donald James Hogencamp. The bride-elect is a graduate of Riverdale High School and is employed at Kroger in Murfreesboro.…

Goody’s Family Clothing, a retailer of moderately priced apparel headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., is launching Good Deeds for Schools, a grant program designed to help local schools pay for the things they really need but can’t afford through regular education funding. Through the newly created program, Goody’s will award half a million dollars in grants…

PARIS (AP) ‘ The verdict said ‘guilty.’ Like so much else in the confusing, contentious Floyd Landis doping case, though, none of the answers are really that simple. Landis lost his expensive and explosive case Thursday when two of three arbitrators upheld the results of a test that showed the 2006 Tour de France champion…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Teams are stacked at the top in the Gold and Silver bowling league. Three weeks into the season, Crouch Motors is in first place with 9.5 points, followed by Beacon Federal and Jones Twins Beauty Salon with seven points each. Dr Pepper, Holder Realty and Warren County Nursery have 6.5 points apiece.…

DALLAS (AP) ‘ When Dale Earnhardt Jr. decided to drive for Rick Hendrick, the car owner didn’t have to worry about funding the car. Sponsors immediately lined up for an opportunity to align their brands with NASCAR’s most popular driver, and Hendrick could have started a bidding war. But he instead stayed within his own…

NASHVILLE (AP) ‘ The Tennessee Titans are ready to introduce the country to a team that hasn’t had a prime-time game since limping to a 4-12 record three years ago. When the Titans (1-1) visit New Orleans (0-2) on Monday night, it will be their first prime-time appearance since Dec. 13, 2004, when they lost…

By TERESA M. WALKER NASHVILLE ‘ Tennessee’s trip to New Orleans is being billed as the first NFL meeting between Vince Young and the Saints’ Reggie Bush, their first game against each other since Young led Texas to the national championship over Bush’s Southern California. LenDale White? Overshadowed by Bush again. But White, now playing…

By Murphy Fair It was once as commonplace before the start of a high school football game as was the playing of the national anthem. But hearing a prayer recited over the public address system in high school stadiums has now become a rarity. Decisions made by courts dealing with the separation of church and…

Rock Island resident and Warren County native Jerry Douglas Pearsall, 51, was born Dec. 22, 1955 and died Sept. 18 at his residence following an extended illness. An electronics technician and a member of Fall City Baptist Church, he was the son of Virginia Cotten Pearsall and the late Floyd Austin ‘Pig’ Pearsall. He was…

McMinnville resident and Sumner County native Bobby Edward Moore, 58, was born March 2, 1949 and died Sept. 20 at his residence following a brief illness. He attended Smartt Church of God and was the son of the late James Frank and Martha Avo Vaughn Moore. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in…