Area News

By Lisa Hobbs City aldermen could be voting to renew the contract of city administrator David Rutherford during one of the next two board meetings. However, his one-year contract ended in mid-April, meaning Rutherford’s currently an at-will employee.According to the one-year contract, the agreement is not automatically renewed after one year. The Board of Mayor…

By Duane Sherrill A man who accidentally dialed an off-duty deputy to set up a drug deal was given probation for his wrong number mishap.However, the fact Waymon McMahan, 44, showed up to buy marijuana from the officer while driving drunk on a motorcycle will cost him 120 days behind bars since it was his…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ‘ A group that advocates separation of church and state filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to prevent South Carolina from becoming the first state to create ‘I Believe’ license plates.The group contends that South Carolina’s government is endorsing Christianity by allowing the plates, which would include a cross superimposed on a stained…

The Warren County Chapter of the American Red Cross is announcing that sign-ups for this summer’s Learn To Swim classes will be this Thursday, June 26 at McMinnville Civic Center from 5 to 6:30 p.m., or until classes are full. As in previous years, classes will be available for 6-year-olds and up.Students must be a…

By Charles W. Johnson Jane and Harry Camp were the McMinnville Evening Exchange Club 2008 Book of Golden Deeds award winners, while Kathy Nesmith received the Community Service honor and Jim Glenn was chosen Exchangite of the Year. The Evening Exchange Club’s 2008 Book of Golden Deeds award took an unusual turn Tuesday night as…

By Duane Sherrill A local man has died from injuries he sustained Tuesday when a car pulled into the path of his motorcycle on Nashville Highway in neighboring Cannon County.The victim, Christopher Lynn Myers, 36, co-owner of Myers Floor Covering, died Wednesday while under treatment for injuries at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.Myers was…

By Lisa Hobbs Sports fans who aren’t cautious could be paying $108 to watch children play ball. City records show an increase in tickets written around the McMinnville Civic Center ball fields.Because parking spaces are in high demand, people have shown they will squeeze their vehicle into just about any spot possible. While that’s acceptable…

NEW YORK (AP) ‘ Billy Ray Cyrus says he wasn’t around when Annie Leibovitz photographed his 15-year-old daughter, Miley, wrapped in a sheet with her back exposed, for the June issue of Vanity Fair magazine.“I wasn’t there at the time,” the 46-year-old country star said in an interview Tuesday on NBC’s “Today” show.“(Miley’s) publicist was…

Rock Island resident and Knox County native Virginia Ann Cox McDowell, 78, was born June 1, 1930 and died June 14 at her residence following a short illness.A homemaker and member of New Bybee Chapel Methodist Church, she was the daughter of the late Rufus Fuller and Louise Malone Cox. She was married to Tullas…

Sarah Katherine Andes, 81, of McMinnville passed from this life Sunday, June 15 at River Park Hospital of an extended illness.She was born on March 1, 1927 in Los Angeles, Calif., and was the wife of the late Thomas Comer (T.C.) Andes and the daughter of William and Margarette (Maggie) Jane Mullican Eubank. She was…