Poor reporting is an understatement.
I wouldn't say poor reporting. Just incomplete reporting, which is the nature of the beast.
A wire story is a few-hundred-word summary for a national or international audience*. In this case, the news of interest is that a man shot himself in a local government building during a meeting. 99% of the AP's audience doesn't want to read through a description of a local zoning dispute, and the addresses of the home and the barber shop would mean nothing to them.
The article is accurate in what it reports, but a lot of folks read into it a lot that the article didn't say. The article says that Bo Ward owned a barber shop and that he was trying to rezone his home to make it more valuable -- it does not say that the barber shop is in the house.
When I read a lot of posts on a lot of threads on FR, I hear every editor I had when I was just starting out -- "We don't know that!" Even good, fair and careful reporters sometimes make inferences that aren't supported by the facts available, and fighting against it is a constant part of the job and a critical skill.
For more detail, you have to go to the local paper, TV or radio station, writing for a local audience -- it's a bigger story to them, they devote more space to it, and to their audience Ft. Campbell Blvd. and Madison St. actually mean something.
In the Internet era, it's more important than ever to parse news stories, to take note of not only what they say but what they don't say. World Net Daily is notorious for getting the essential facts correct, but stacking them in a way that leads a lot of casual readers to become outraged, which is their goal.
Fortunately, it's also never been easier to find more detail. I searched Google News and found the story in the Clarkesville paper that had the Madison St. address; then I searched the white pages online for Bo's Barber shop, which had a different address. Didn't take a minute. Before the 'Net, it would have taken a trip to the public library, at least -- and only then if it's a big enough library to have all the white pages in the country -- and a half-dozen phone calls. Or a drive to Clarkesville.