Smarty Pants daycare, along with Kristy Stubblefield’s Relay for Life team, Friends Fighting for a Cure, held a Jump-a-Thon, Friday, raising $1,730 for the American Cancer Society. Pictured are, front row from left, Aspen King, Keeper Hendrix, Gavin King and Jaden Smartt. Back row, Cherie Martin, Amanda Hatfield, Julien Dixon, Catalina Dixon, Madalyn Stubblefield, Michelle…

DENVER (AP) ‘ Republican presidential candidate John McCain called Tuesday for talks with China to negotiate a temporary halt to production of nuclear weapons-grade material and with Russia on a new treaty to destroy more nuclear weapons. “Today we deploy thousands of nuclear warheads,” McCain said. “It is my hope to move as rapidly as…

PHOENIX (AP) ‘ John McCain’s complex relationship with President Bush can be summed up with a simple saying: can’t live with him, can’t live without him. The president’s own popularity is bottom-of-the-barrel low. Even allies privately fret that he’s an albatross for the Republican looking to succeed him. Voters are crying out for change amid…

By Lisa Hobbs Is the Franklin P. Blue building endangered after standing since 1871? Locally, the answer to the question will differ depending on who is asked. Helping answer that question will be the Tennessee Preservation Trust. On Friday, the organization will announce its 2008 ‘Ten in Tennessee’ endangered sites list during its annual conference…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON The first month on the job has been an eventful one for Warren County environmental officer Tommy Savage, who began work May 1 in an effort to enforce existing regulations governing junkyards, scrapyards and criminal littering. So far Savage has written around 30 tickets in 17 work days, an average of…

By DUANE SHERRILL McMinnville Mayor Royce Davenport addresses the crowd of approximately 200 people at Monday morning’s Memorial Day ceremony at Warren County Memorial Airport. Recalling those he knew who had laid down their lives for their country, Vietnam veteran and McMinnville Mayor Royce Davenport urged Americans to remember the sacrifice made by the servicemen…

By DUANE SHERRILL A man who shot his wife in the neck has been ordered for mental evaluation to determine if he was insane at the time he pulled the trigger. The defendant, William Christopher Foster, 49, was ordered by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to undergo a battery of mental evaluations aimed at determining…

By DUANE SHERRILL If you aren’t taking note of events out in the Texas where authorities have raided a polygamist sect’s ranch based on claims a man was having illegal contact with a 15-year-old, then you better take notice. The ranch, owned by a Mormon branch called the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter…

By Jim Mullen I just paid 80 cents for a not very big apple at the supermarket. A bag of four apples was $3.20. I’m eating one now while staring at that dumb, useless, flowering crab-apple tree we planted in the side yard four years ago. What were we thinking about? Flowering crab apples? If…

By William Rusher The news that Sen. Ted Kennedy has an inoperable malignant glioma in the left parietal sector of his brain is a major development in American politics. We can, and of course do, hope and pray that modern medicine can solve the problem, but the prognosis is, to put it mildly, not good.…