PTO volunteer Sheryl Prater puts the finishing touches on a world map painted on the wall in Bobby Ray Memorial’s cafeteria. Teachers plan to use the map as a teaching tool for their students.

Baby Boy Misty and Dustin Cherry are revealing the birth of their son, Brayden Hunter Cherry. He was born Feb. 27 at River Park Hospital and weighed 6 pounds, 10.5 ounces. He is joined by sister, Brooklyn and Kaylee Cherry. Grandparents include James and Beverly Eubanks of Morrison, and Wanda and Leon Walker. Baby Boy…

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ‘ Apple Inc. is mulling a plan to upend its iTunes business by giving people unlimited free access to the music library if they’re willing to pay more for the iPod and iPhone devices they use for playing and storing the digital media, according to a recent report. Some analysts threw cold…

BY James Dillon As authorized by the private act creating Warren County, the 29th Regiment was also mandated to be created the first Thursday in March, a month after Warren County began operation on Feb. 1, 1808. While the requirements for membership in the militia are somewhat obscured by the Tennessee Constitution of 1796, it…

WASHINGTON (AP) ‘ House Democrats have demanded documents about a multibillion-dollar overseas contracting loophole to track down how ‘ and why ‘ the Bush administration slipped it into plans to protect taxpayer money. Leaders of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee gave the administration until April 4 to turn over the documents or face…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ‘ Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks. And some more. And more. A growing trend in all-you-can-eat seating at sports venues is making baseball’s summer chorus sound more like ‘Take Me Out to the Buffet.’ Dozens of arenas, stadiums and tracks have offered tickets that come with unlimited snacks. The…

By Duane Sherrill Telling him he should kiss his lawyer’s feet for getting him such a sweet deal, Judge Larry Ross sentenced a man to 15 days after his abused girlfriend shied away from prosecuting him despite evidence their relationship had a history of violence. ‘You can tell that she’s so browbeaten that this isn’t…

Goody’s Family Clothing in McMinnville is recognizing Eastside Elementary School as a finalist in its inaugural Good Deeds for Schools grant program. The newly created program is designed to help local schools pay for the things they really need, but cannot afford through regular education funding. Eastside Elementary’s grant proposal requested funding for a character…

NEW YORK (AP) ‘ A happy marriage is good for your blood pressure, but a stressed one can be worse than being single, a preliminary study suggests. That second finding is a surprise because prior studies have shown that married people tend to be healthier than singles, said researcher Julianne Holt-Lunstad. It would take further…