NASHVILLE (AP) ‘ An Army National Guard unit in West Tennessee is being mobilized for an upcoming deployment. Maj. General Gus Hargett said Wednesday that 76 soldiers in the 30th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion Headquarters in Humboldt are scheduled for deployment. The date and location of their deployment has not been announced. Several Tennessee National…

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) ‘ Hillary Rodham Clinton says she would have parted company with a minister who talked about America the way Barack Obama’s pastor has. Clinton’s comments marked a clear shift in her handling of the Obama church controversy, which she had generally avoided until now. Some Democrats see Obama’s refusal to dissociate himself…

NASHVILLE (AP) ‘ Sara Evans, who finalized a bitter divorce last year, is engaged to former University of Alabama quarterback Jay Barker. “The couple are enjoying their engagement and look forward to their upcoming nuptials,” Lori Genes, the singer’s publicist at Sony BMG Nashville, said Tuesday. No date has been announced for the wedding. The…

Lucile Byars Hennessee has gone to join her Lord and Savior on Easter Sunday. Born in 1918, Keltonburg, Tenn., she was the oldest daughter of six children to Perry Green Byars and Vernia Swindell. In 1939, she married Bert Hennessee and mothered two sons, David and Fred. Lucile loved God and His Word. She began…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Eva Lois Underhill, 71, died March 25 at NHC in McMinnville after an extended illness. A retired Magnetek employee and a member of First Baptist Church, she was the daughter of William Arthur and Rachel Elizabeth Davenport Simons, and was preceded in death by sister, Frankie McGregor and grandson,…

By JAMES CLARK Don’t you hate folks who just want to sit back and criticize every little thing you do? Me too. Without being that grumpy guy in the corner, I do wonder about Susan and the happy, little thoughts that must parade around in her head. Of all the things that are going to…

By SUSAN NEWBY With all the effort (and money) being expended to beautify our downtown area, the courthouse art display/sculpture area with its benches, walkways and landscaping will be an excellent addition, especially since it’s not coming at taxpayers’ expense. Celebration of our roots and renewed pride in our history as a community is a…

By Duane Sherrill If Barack Obama loses his bid for president then he should walk up to his former pastor Jeremiah Wright and slug him in the mouth as his ministry of hate and lack of forgiveness could mean the difference between the Illinois senator becoming our first African American president and just another liberal…

By William Rusher Following its lopsided victory in the legislative elections of Jan. 12, Taiwan’s Nationalist Party (or Kuomintang) has nailed down control of that vital island by electing its candidate as president of the Republic of China for a four-year term. This has been hailed in some American quarters as a victory for those…

By Nat Hentoff Immediately after 9/11, Colin Powell said the terrorists were clearly engaged in a war on civilization itself. Soon after, as secretary of State, he prophetically warned the president — and the lawyers drafting and justifying “torture memos” in the Justice Department — that this country’s rejecting the Geneva Conventions and our own…