Show directors Charlie Winton and Wes Campbell will hold open auditions for the upcoming Community Playhouse, Inc. production of the Ken Ludwig comedy ‘Shakespeare in Hollywood’ today at 2 p.m. and tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the South Jackson Civic Center in Tullahoma. Parts are available for eight men and four women, plus extras. The…

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The Old Philadelphia Church on Vervilla Road will provide the setting for the wedding of Tiffany Jonell Jones to Donald James (D.J.) Gannon on Oct. 13. The bride-to-be is the daughter of James and Karen Jones. Her grandparents are Dolores and the late Pete Sain, Sr. of Summitville, the late Ben Wright of Viola, and…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) ‘ Federal and state wildlife officials said Friday they are investigating the killing of a grizzly bear in north-central Idaho, where the last confirmed sighting of the species was in 1946. The bear, a member of a threatened species, was killed Monday by a Tennessee hunter near Kelly Creek about three miles…

BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) ‘ A woman in her seventies has astounded doctors by surviving nearly two weeks in the thick woods of Eastern Oregon’s rugged Wallowa Mountains. Doctors said Doris Anderson was hours from death when found on Thursday, with a body temperature that had dropped to 90 degrees. Lost on a hunting trip,…

WASHINGTON (AP) ‘ When President Bush gives Congress and the nation his status report on Iraq this week, he is likely to cast the unpopular war in grand terms, as a long-haul, strategic investment in a better Middle East. His evidence that Iraq is worth the gamble and sacrifice, however, relies largely on the fruits…

NASHVILLE (AP) ‘ A teacher whose husband is accused of fatally shooting her student lover was fired from a Nashville school amid new allegations of improper contact with another student. Erin McLean’s husband, Eric, is charged with second-degree murder in the March 10 shooting of 18-year-old Sean Powell outside of their Knoxville home. McLean believed…

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ‘ The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals has reduced the voluntary manslaughter sentence for a woman who shot and killed a man she believed had raped her daughter. Cunningham shot her daughter’s uncle Coy Hundley eight times outside the Alcoa lock company where he worked in October 2003. Cunningham quoted her daughter,…

By Thomas Vaughn To the delight of ‘Fred-Heads’ everywhere, Fred Thompson made it official last week.?? He finally went from ‘testing the waters and finding them warm’ to plunging into the 2008 race for president. After coyly considering running for the White House since at least last March, when a ‘Draft Fred committee’ and Web…

By Morton Kondracke Congress returned to town this week with its poll ratings even lower than President Bush’s. That’s because nearly all the public ever sees is congressional leaders fighting and accomplishing nothing. But that’s not a completely accurate picture. By the time Congress adjourned for the August recess, it actually had racked up some…