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The mother of a man charged with killing a Chattanooga police sergeant last year rants in jailhouse letters to her son that Tennesseans are a “stupid hillbilly, Jack Daniel selling ... backward, Bible belt, inbred ... bunch of haters” and shows scant remorse for her own crimes in the case.

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When the bodies started to pile up, Tim Mason wrestled with panic and disbelief. He wanted to believe that his parents' bodies weren't among those thrown out, exposed to the elements and left to rot in the backyard of a crematory in the unincorporated town of Noble, Ga.

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has formed a political action committee to lobby the federal government, even as numbers show that PACs in the health industry have more than doubled their contributions to federal candidates in the last 10 years.

After last April's tornadoes, the Rhea County Sheriff's Office made plans to offer emergency training classes for area residents before this year's storm season arrived.

The Georgia Department of Transportation will spend $1.7 million to resurface 27.9 miles of local roads in eight counties in Northwest Georgia. One street to get a makeover is a stretch of Crittenden Avenue in Chickamauga.

Dozens of special interests ranging from AT&T to Chattanooga-based BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee have given $2.93 million so far to the campaigns of Tennessee lawmakers and legislative candidates during the 2012 election cycle, state filings show.

The roads of Chattanooga were empty of pedestrians Saturday. People crowded into restaurants and behind the doors of the library and the children's museum to stay warm.

Questions linger about why 10 years have passed without a promised memorial being erected to honor the hundreds of people whose bodies were discarded and left to rot at Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Ga.

An 18-month saga for Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield may have ended Friday. Standing inside a Hamilton County courtroom, Littlefield said that, for the remaining 14 months of his administration, “we’re going to keep doing the business of the city.”

The use of adjunct professors soared at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the five years ending in 2009, but since then officials have improved parity by hiring more full-time, tenured faculty.

The Bass Federation will hold its 2012 Tennessee High School Fishing State Championship on May 11-12 on Nickajack Lake in Marion County.

  • Feb. 12th, 2012  |
  • By Ryan Lewis/Correspondent

The city schools system has a new software tool to assess how each school is performing instead of waiting for the state's annual report cards.

Twelve attorneys are seeking to replace the late Judge Bob Moon on the General Sessions bench, including one who wants to be a caretaker until a special election this August.

Inside a chain-link fence along Morningside Drive in Soddy-Daisy, 22 plump pygmy goats spend their days munching on grass and hay, wholly unaware they are at the center of a drama that has enveloped a family, a neighborhood and now a city commission.

Bond has been set at $30,000 for a Dalton State College professor facing child molestation, sodomy and rape charges. Monte Gale Salyer, 58, is accused of molesting an 8-year-old girl and two other young girls whose families he befriended at church.

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