LAS VEGAS (AP) ‘ Prosecutors overreached with charges against O.J. Simpson and co-defendants in a case accusing them of armed robbery, kidnapping and other counts, a lawyer for one of the suspects said Thursday. Bail was set at $32,000 for Michael McClinton, whose lawyer said his client won’t be able to raise the money to…

WASHINGTON (AP) ‘ President Bush acknowledged ‘some unsettling times’ in the country’s troubled housing and credit markets, while Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke offered fresh assurances steps would be taken to curb the fallout. The housing slump, the worst in 16 years, is likely to drag on well into 2008, when the nation will be…

NEW YORK (AP) ‘ A billion dollars just doesn’t go as far as it used to. For the first time, it takes more than $1 billion to earn a spot on Forbes magazine’s list of the 400 richest Americans. The minimum net worth for inclusion in this year’s rankings released Thursday was $1.3 billion, up…

WASHINGTON (AP) ‘ Honest Abe will become Colorful Abe with splashes of purple and gray livening up the $5 bill. The government showed off the new bill Thursday in an Internet news conference ‘ a high-tech unveiling that officials say is entirely appropriate for a 21st century redesign of the bill featuring the Civil War…

By Gene Lyons So here’s the latest bulletin from the psych department: According to the journal Nature Neuroscience, liberals are smarter and more adaptable than conservatives. It’s a scientific fact, or what passes for one in the world of lab rats and mazes. Needless to say, this discovery was greeted with a yawn on the…

By Cokie & Steven Roberts Here’s the good news: Health care has emerged as the leading domestic issue in the presidential election. Finally, candidates are talking about something that matters to every American family every day. Occasionally, Iraq even gets pushed off the front page. Here’s the bad news: Precisely because health care is such…

Lebanon resident Rebecca Anne Grime Jennings, 74, was born Oct. 5, 1932 and died Sept. 16. A retired vice president from First Tennessee Bank (formerly Lebanon Bank) and office manager of Jennings Motor Company, she was a graduate of Lebanon High School and attended Cumberland University. She was the daughter of the late Joseph Hall…

Morrison resident and Moore County native Pearl Eslick Bogard, 87, died Sept. 18 at NHC after an extended illness. A homemaker and poet and a member of the Methodist Church, she is survived by three sons and daughters-in-law, Bobby and Brenda Bogard of Woodbury, Billy and Shae Bogard of Cochran, Ga., and John and Tammy…

Spencer resident Nina Jane Yates, 42, died on Sept. 19 at Erlanger Hospital. A factory worker and a member of Hill Road Baptist Church, she was the daughter of Beverly K. Sullivan and stepfather Jimmy D. Forsythe Sr., of Spencer. She was preceded in death by her father, Carl V. Scott, grandfathers T.P. Sullivan and…

Rocky River community resident and Van Buren County native Martha Ann Roberts Bouldin, 86, was born Sept. 19, 1920 and died Sept. 18 at River Park Hospital following a brief illness. A homemaker and a member of White Hill Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late A.E. ‘Bidge’ and Nancy Ann Hillis…