LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Miss America Pageant has been dropped by Country Music Television, leaving the 86-year-old competition without a TV outlet for the second time in three years. The Viacom-owned network, which had rights to air the pageant through 2011, notified the Atlantic City, N.J.-based organization ...
MEMPHIS (AP) - Seventh seed Julien Benneteau moved into the second round of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and was joined by American teenager Sam Querrey on Wednesday. Benneteau, who upset Andy Roddick in last year's ATP Tour event at The Racquet Club, defeated Korea's Hyung-Taik Lee, 7-5, ...
JACKSBORO, Tenn. - A deadly confrontation between a juvenile with a gun and three school administrators at Campbell County Comprehensive High School was recalled Monday by the survivors. Assistant Principal Jim Pierce testified Kenneth Bartley, then 15, was called to the office on Nov. 8, 2005, after ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Former Arizona guard J.P. Prince is transferring to Tennessee as a redshirt and will be eligible to play for the No. 22 Volunteers next season, athletic officials announced Tuesday. Prince, a 6-6 freshman originally from Memphis, averaged 2.2 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Barry Bonds failed a test for amphetamines last season and originally blamed it on a teammate, the Daily News reported Thursday. When first informed of the positive test, Bonds attributed it to a substance he had taken from teammate Mark Sweeney's locker, the New York City newspaper ...
NEW YORK (AP) - A rich trove of background for all the legendary works in the Museum of Modern Art will become more accessible to the public with the opening Nov. 28 of MoMA's new education and research building in midtown Manhattan. With five times the previous space for archives and study areas, the ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Now that the voters have decided to return Ophelia Ford to the state Senate, the Memphis Democrat is deciding if she will press on with a federal lawsuit filed after senators removed her from office last year, her lawyer said Monday. A trial on the lawsuit filed by Ford and several ...
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two soldiers, including one from Tennessee, were killed in Iraq while serving with the 82nd Airborne Division out of Fort Bragg, N.C., military officials announced Tuesday. First Lt. Michael A. Cerrone, 24, of Clarksville and Spc. Harry A. Winkler III, 32, of Jacksonville, ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Faith Hill insists she's no Kanye West. The country music superstar says she was just joking when cameras showed her screaming "WHAT?" in apparent anger when she lost the female vocalist of the year award to newcomer Carrie Underwood at the Country Music Association Awards ceremony Monday ...
NORTH BAY, Ont. - (CP) - A supply teacher accused of slapping elementary students in gym class has been banned from two North Bay elementary schools. Gerald Brochu, 58, a teacher of 31 years, agreed Tuesday to a $500 peace bond for a year, to have no contact with six children and to stay away from the ...
