A serious or life-changing health care issue will touch everyone’s life eventually. A sibling is diagnosed with cancer. A colleague’s baby is born too soon. A neighbor suffers a heart attack. An accident severely injures a niece. Family, friends and neighbors want to help, but even the best of intentions can be waylaid when you…

The Warren County High School boys basketball team fell to the Bishop Kenny Crusaders 75-60 in the Florida First Coast Shootaround. Robbie France netted 20 points and Troy Carter added 10 to lead the Pioneers. (Dec. 30, 1992)

Tennessee defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch earned AFC defensive player of the week honors Thursday for the first time in his career with his three-sack performance against the New York Jets. Vanden Bosch helped the Titans hold the Jets to six points, the fewest points Tennessee has allowed since Nov. 16, 2003, when Jacksonville managed…

Now all of America can see the undefeated New England Patriots’ shot at history. Saturday night’s game between New England and the New York Giants on the NFL Network, which is available in fewer than 40 percent of the nation’s homes with TVs, will be simulcast on both CBS and NBC. The Patriots could become…

Week Picker Record 1. Dennis Stanley 7-3 2. John Partin 6-4 3. Ronnie Talbert 6-4 4. Franklin Fisher 4-6 5. Jay Walker 6-4 6. Carolyn Taylor 6-4 7. Teresa Stubblefield 5-5 8. Tim McIntosh 5-5 9. Chris Cope 7-3 10. Larry Ross 4-6 11. Seth Wright 7-3 Week Picker Record 12. Jeff Barnes 5-5 13.…

By the Associated Press All times Eastern Friday, Dec. 28 Champ Sports Bowl at Orlando, Fla., Boston College (10-3) vs. Michigan State (7-5), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Emerald Bowl at San Francisco, Maryland (6-6) vs. Oregon State (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Texas Bowl at Houston, TCU (7-5) vs. Houston (8-4), 8 p.m. (NFL) Saturday, Dec. 29…

LOS ANGELES (AP) ‘ Santa was good to Hollywood over the Christmas holiday, delivering hearty box-office returns more than 34 percent higher than the same weekend last year. The action-adventure tale “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” pulled in $65.4 million over the five-day holiday weekend. The Will Smith sci-fi flick “I Am Legend” dropped to…

Warren County native, and a retired CNA at NHC Healthcare, Mrs. Nellie Irene Meeks died Dec. 24 at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville following an extended illness. She was 71 years of age and the daughter of the late Charles and Lela Parlie Boren Morgan. She was a member of the Church of Christ. Survivors…

Mrs. Mollie Monroe Lusk of Mt. Juliet died Dec. 23 at her residence following a lengthy illness. An educator and native of Warren County, she was preceded in death by her husband, Marvin Taylor Lusk, Sr., and by her parents, General and Lena Martin Paige. Age 92, she was a devoted wife, mother and teacher,…