Tullahoma businessman and former McMinnville resident Jim Woodard has announced his intention to run for the 14th District State Senate seat in the Aug. 7 Democratic Primary. The winners of the Democratic and Republican primaries will face off in the general election in November. When asked why he wants to serve, Woodard says he enjoys…

WASHINGTON (AP) ‘ Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered a full inventory of all nuclear weapons and related materials after the mistaken delivery of ballistic missile fuses to Taiwan, the Pentagon said Thursday. Gates told officials with the Air Force, Navy and Defense Logistics Agency to assess inventory control procedures for the materials and to…

By Lisa Hobbs With the Fourth of July slightly more than three months away, McMinnville officials will be taking a bigger bite from people selling fireworks inside the city limits. The fee for a city fireworks permit had been a flat fee of $200, no matter the size of the tent, trailer or temporary structure…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) ‘ A 20-mile stretch of Interstate 64 was closed overnight because at least four cars were struck by bullets, injuring two people. The highway reopened Thursday morning. The four cars were hit along an 11-mile stretch of highway starting around midnight Wednesday. Virginia State Police were trying to find the gunman. Sgt.…

By Lisa Hobbs City employees are busy moving city government into the Regions Bank building. Pictured is Water Department employee Gary England, who has been helping his department move. For the past week, every available city employee has been lending a hand to help move McMinnville City Hall from the Blue Building to the Region’s…

By JAMES CLARK A man running from police after a domestic violence call picked the wrong direction to run Wednesday morning. Travis D. Hawkins jumped out a window and ran several blocks in an effort to escape custody, but he ran straight for a group of McMinnville police officers who were doing in-service training at…

By JAMES CLARK Warren County EMS workers peer over the edge of Westwood Bridge as paramedic Nick Abraham, top, and instructor Robert Oaks rappel to the ground. Warren County emergency service workers usually don’t spend their time rappelling from Westwood Bridge. But in an effort to better prepare themselves for any type of situation, paramedics…

By Duane Sherrill The wife of a former fugitive who police say led officers on a high-speed chase claims she was with her husband in Murfreesboro at the time lawmen were supposedly chasing him through the streets of McMinnville. ‘We were in Murfreesboro on Jan. 27,’ said Stephanie Alley, wife of Anthony Steven Alley, 31,…

By JAMES CLARK The Warren County School System will be starting school a week earlier this year, and every school will be on the same calendar. After a month of open debate, the School Board approved a 2008-09 calendar last night that features an Aug. 7 start date, roughly a week before this year’s first…

DETROIT (AP) ‘ Ford Motor Co. is selling its storied Jaguar and Land Rover businesses to India’s Tata Motors Ltd. in a deal that will net the U.S. automaker $1.7 billion ‘ roughly a third of the price it paid for the two luxury brands. The deal announced Wednesday will expand the Indian carmaker’s reach…