As I tipped down Chicago’s State Street toward Marshall Field’s, all I could think about was needing a pair of flat shoes. “Miss, would you be interested in buying something?” a young man asked as he walked up to me holding a cardboard box.
My first thought was this must be some sort of scam. Peering [...]

State Sen. Steve Cohen said Wednesday his work for a state lottery has neared the end. In one of the smoothest days he’s seen during the lottery battle this session, his lottery legislation passed the Senate Wednesday with little debate.
The implementation bill, which sets up an independent corporation to run the lottery, is the second [...]

The Hollywood lefty thought he could take to the streets against his country and suffer no public backlash. He was wrong.
Last week, the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., withdrew an invitation to the C-list actor and his live-in partner, Susan Sarandon, to appear at an event marking the 15th anniversary of the film [...]

How many e-mail messages did you have when you sat down in front of your computer today? How many of them were actually for you — just for you?
That work and personal e-mail are now filled with spam comes as a shock to no one, but the rate at which it’s increasing really is alarming. [...]

Hunter Hillenmeyer and Dan Stricker hunger to see their names scroll across the screen during this weekend’s NFL Draft. But they’re not about to feed on prognosticators’ predictions without a little seasoning.
Vanderbilt’s two best draft prospects will be hunkered down at their respective families’ homesteads this weekend — Hillenmeyer in Nashville, Stricker in Cincinnati — [...]

The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit, which includes some of the oldest copies of Old Testament books and other priceless religious manuscripts, created quite a stir among scholars when they were rediscovered in 1947 in 11 caves near Jerusalem. The ancient texts are now on the move and creating a sensation in Murfreesboro due to their [...]

A local buyout company has acquired 40-year-old Hobby-Lobby International Inc., a Brentwood-based retailer of radio-controlled model airplanes, helicopters and boats.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed by either party, although Jim Martin, Hobby-Lobby’s president and founder, said he was happy with the deal.
“They got quite a deal,” Martin said. “I made sure they couldn’t say [...]

The Tennessee Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon denied an appeal, filed Monday by attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Paul Dennis Reid, requesting that the court issue a stay of execution in his case.
Chief Supreme Court Justice Frank Drowota issued the opinion for the majority, calling the appeal “without merit.”
Reid is scheduled to die by lethal [...]

City Investigation
Metro’s Sidewalk Priority Index is a simple term used to rank the need for repairing and building Metro’s sidewalks. But, in compiling it, the index caused political fights, secrecy and what some are saying may be a waste of $500,000 in taxpayer money.
It involved the Mayor’s Office, the Planning Department and the Public Works [...]

This would certainly fall under the category of domination.
In fact, Kevin Patterson outdid even himself Tuesday afternoon. The Franklin Road Academy super senior won the Region 3-A/AA Sectional decathlon by more than 1,100 points in the event on his home FRA track.
Patterson won eight of the 10 events (tying for first in the 110 high [...]

If you look at the great wine regions of the world you’ll notice that a huge majority of them have one thing in common — they are all close to the ocean. This maritime climate provides a cool, constant environment for the grapes to grow. This is why New Zealand is doing such a great [...]

Virginia Harper truly believes the old saying, “You are what you eat.”
In fact, Harper is such a believer of that phrase she has made it her mission in life to teach others the benefits of knowing the effects food has on the body.
Harper is a macrobiotic practitioner of 21 years, a Certified
Strengthening Health Counselor and [...]

HCA Inc.’s patient admissions and profit were hurt in Nashville and other cities where the hospital chain lost contracts with insurers, including BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.
The Nashville-based company Tuesday also said first-quarter profit rose less than it expected because overnight stays and outpatient-surgery visits declined.
Net income rose 22 percent to $469 million, or 90 cents [...]

Kirkland Properties LLC has a contract to sell its 13-story Noel Place office building at the corner of Church Street and Fourth Avenue North downtown.
Chris Kirkland, Kirkland Properties’ chief manager/principal, confirmed a deal is in place but declined to identify the prospective buyers of the building, located at 200 Fourth Ave. N.
Kirkland Properties bought Noel [...]

Nicki over at Publicola seems to have gotten an irate email from a member of the British press corp recently.
The email reads:
DO NOT USE MY NEWS STORIES TO FUEL YOUR DESIRE TO BEAR FIREARMS.TAKE NOTICE OF THIS WARNING OR I’LL PASS IT TO OUR LAWYERS TO DEAL WITH.
GREG TRUSCOTT, SOUTH LONDON PRESS, UK.
This falls under [...]