BY DUANE SHERRILL There was one last gift left under the Christmas tree this year, opened up the day after to expose the gift that keeps giving ‘ the yuletide virus. Yes, everyone connected in any way with my Christmas party this year ended up getting an unwanted gift to take home, that being some…

BY Nat Hentoff By any basic definition of criminal obstruction of justice, the CIA did just that in 2005 by destroying videotapes made in its secret prisons of what the president approvingly calls “coerced interrogations.” Thereby the CIA defied orders by federal judges and the 9/11 Commission to keep intact all records of interrogations of…

BY William Rusher There is always much about the future that is obscure, but of one thing we can be reasonably certain: In 2008, the United States will be involved militarily in Iraq. It may be a largely peaceful involvement, centering on the military occupation of key areas, or it may have a major combat…

MILWAUKEE (AP) ‘ Diane Grezenski grew up a city girl, but now she and her husband run a dairy farm where she has taken on more and more of the work over the years. ‘I do almost all the milking, feed the animals, and handle the book work and much of nearly everything else that…

Recently, Warren County Middle School wrestler Wesley Cleland placed second at the Commando Clash in Hendersonville. Cleland is an eighth-grader for the Pioneer squad. He is the son of Michael, Tammie and Cindy Cleland.

BY ROB NUNLEY The Lady Pioneer basketball team will enter the new year just one game under .500, after falling to a familiar foe in their final game of the Overton Christmas Tournament. Taking on Pope John Paul II in a game to determine fifth and sixth place, Warren County’s girls fell to 6-7 on…

BY DALE STUBBLEFIELD Well, here I sit, on the second day of the new year, pondering about the past and wondering about the future. Like every other person, I hope 2008 is better than 2007. Not to say last year wasn’t a good year, but things can always be better. Every year it seems someone…

BY DALE STUBBLEFIELD Lauren Wilkinson runs into the defensie pressure of Palmer’s Karastin Braden during Friday’s game. Dibrell’s undefeated record came to an end Friday night in the Warren Masonic 125 Lodge tournament. The Lady Wildcats had little trouble marching threw the elementary league, until they ran into the Palmer Lady Bulldogs. Palmer’s Karastin Braden…

BY DALE STUBBLEFIELD J.T. Morgan puts up a shot against a Bulldog double-team. The Boyd Broncos seventh-and eighth-grade boys basketball team has been rolling through its competition so far this season. Friday night in the Warren Masonic Lodge tournament Boyd’s dominance continued as the Broncos rolled over Palmer 49-18. Boyd opened the first quarter with…

Baby Girl Jamie and Lee Adams are the parents of a daughter, Maddox Rayne Adams. She was born on Dec. 2 at River Park Hospital weighing 6 pounds, 13 1/2 ounces. The little miss is joined by siblings, Cailyn, Aspen, Haile, Hunter and Chandler. Her grandparents are Jimmy and Gail Priest and Bryson and Jerri…