By Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar Dear Annie: “Libby,” a very dear friend of mine, works part time, lives on a limited income in subsidized housing and receives food stamps. Every month, she gives large amounts of money or food stamps to her grown children, who live in very nice homes, drive nice cars and…

Boyd Spry met his future wife, Patricia, when they were students at Cannon County High School in neighboring Woodbury. When they married a couple of years after graduation, they could not have imagined the challenges that awaited their marital union. At age 35, Patricia was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease that ravages the body’s…

Left: Nectarine Neufchatel Cheesecake – Right: Tarragon Turkey Salad Lettuce Cups with Plums and Toasted Almonds Family Features Warm weather is here, and so is the season’s delicious bounty of fresh summer stone fruit. Everyone knows that fruit is good for you, but did you know that peaches, plums and nectarines are good sources of…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Lisa Leslie will have help from Los Angeles Sparks teammate Candace Parker when the U.S. women’s basketball team tries to win a fourth straight Olympic gold medal. They were two of the nine players placed on the team Saturday. The announcement came before Los Angeles played Washington in a WNBA game.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Three members of Brad Keselowski’s team, including crew chief Tony Eury Sr., were penalized Wednesday for participating in post-race altercation with Denny Hamlin’s crew on pit road at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Crew members from both teams scuffled after late race contact between the two drivers in Saturday night’s Nationwide Series event.…

NEW YORK (AP) – A hoof specialist changed the steel sutures in Big Brown’s foot Saturday and said the unbeaten colt remains on target for the Belmont Stakes in a bid for the Triple Crown. “When you push on it now, he doesn’t even feel it,” hoof specialist Ian McKinlay said from Belmont Park. The…

(AP) – Martin Truex Jr. remembered it all. Every minor race, all the hard work tinkering with cars, even the failures were on his mind as drove toward the finish line with the lead. Truex spent a lifetime imagining the feeling of winning a Cup race. Now, he was about to live it for real…

(AP) – Greg Biffle took the pole. Kyle Busch took the heat. Biffle held off the Busch brothers, turning a lap of 155.219 mph on Friday at Dover International Speedway to take the top spot and bolster his bid to drive the No. 16 Ford to his first victory of the season. Kurt Busch was…

Pioneer Youth Football Sign-Ups Sign-ups for the Pioneer Youth Football league will begin on Saturday, June 12 from 9a.m.-noon, in the locker room at Bobby Ray Elementary Sign-ups are for ages 5-12 and the registration fee is $40. Sign-ups will continue every Saturday until July 26. For more information please call 507-8014 or 668-2304. Sports…

Adam Wood left, works on post moves with Daulton Foster during last week’s May Madness Basketball Camp held at the Warren County Middle School. WCMS basketball coach Monica Moore ran the week-long camp with 61 kids participating. The camp offered instructions on the basic fundamentals of the game. This was the largest turnout coach Moore…