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How do you grow a grown-up?

Monday, March 17, 2008

June 6, 1985. My mother circled the date on the calendar, informing me that from that moment forward, I would no longer be on her payroll.

Tackling the challenge of Young Marines

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Dakota Knighten showed up at a Young Marines orientation 14 months ago sporting baggy pants, a sideways cap and a defiant attitude.

Sales tax holiday in time for Easter

Monday, March 3, 2008

Plans for a Tennessee sales tax holiday March 21-23 are being rearranged after lawmakers realized they had scheduled the event for Easter weekend.

Court-martial this week in death of local Marine

Monday, March 3, 2008

After 16 months of waiting, Robin Patterson still is not sure what she will say this week when she has the chance to confront the man charged in the death of her son, Lance Cpl. Kristopher Cody Warren.

'Modern Marvels' to air a segment on tomahawk producer

Sunday, March 2, 2008

A father-son business forging handmade tomahawks from hunks of steel has bloomed into an enterprise that supplies the lightweight, wickedly sharp weapons to hundreds of troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Injured Marine returns to Iraq

Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008

A Marine from Soddy-Daisy who was shot in the face during combat in Iraq returned to the war zone soon after the incident that killed his comrade, his family said.

Declining nature participation alarming officials

Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008

Lured indoors by technology, fewer people are visiting America’s national parks, picking up fishing rods or toting backpacks through the woods, a trend researchers and experts say could hurt long-term conservation efforts.

Support to cope with loss

Monday, Feb. 18, 2008

Advocates say stigma over the “s” word thwarts prevention efforts

Losing a father

Monday, Feb. 18, 2008

Since 14-year-old Jordan Venable returned to school following her father’s death by suicide in November, she has spent a lot of time talking to school counselors and using their offices as a place of solace.

Mourning a lost son

Monday, Feb. 18, 2008

Jesse Epstein was a runner, and one of his favorite places was the Brainerd levee, where he would lope past woods and water.