U.S. District Court Judge Sandy Mattice sentenced Kathleen Mathews to 30 years and six months for her role in helping her son escape from a Colorado halfway house, sell guns he stole and withhold information from investigators after a Chattanooga police sergeant was shot and killed during a botched robbery on Brainerd Road last year.
A new high-end subdivision planned for a North Chattanooga hilltop is yet another nod to the desirability of the area and the popularity of nearby Normal Park Museum Magnet School.
Nearly two dozen ministers from different denominations are launching a local voter empowerment movement in Chattanooga to make sure no person who is eligible and wants to vote is denied the right.
Adele, who captured the world's heart with an album about a broken romance, emerged as the top winner at Sunday's Grammy Awards, winning six trophies including the prestigious trifecta of record, song and album of the year.
Several challengers to U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann are ready to debate immediately -- 172 days before the Aug. 2 primary election. "Now let's debate!!" Weston Wamp wrote online Feb. 6. "Wamp v. Mayfield v. Fleischmann. I'm ready when they are."
The Great Recession carried special pain for black women like Jane Ladson. She had always been the one her family members turned to when they needed help, and she didn’t hesitate to give it. She helped pay for weddings and rent.
Stringer’s Ridge is formally set for preservation. The Tennessee River Gorge Trust has accepted 55 acres of property — the side of the ridge facing downtown Chattanooga — from developer Jimmy Hudson. The transaction was announced Friday.
Sequatchie County Veterans Service officer Charles Tiede says intensive training and more room mean better service for area veterans at the new office now open on Church Street in Dunlap.
Dalton, Ga., is gearing up to remember what John Culpepper, Chickamauga city manager and chairman of the Georgia Civil War Commission, has called "the first watershed event of the war in our area."
Carltrovous Moore is being sought by the Chattanooga Police Department's Fugitive Unit for violating probation after being charged with aggravated burglary, possession of a firearm while in commission of a felony, drugs, unlawful carrying of a weapon and other charges, according to a news release.
The sponsor of legislation that seeks to strengthen a Tennessee law prohibiting the tattooing of minors says the measure also would help fight gang activity, even though critics lament the proposal could be burdensome.
Chattanooga police on Sunday identified the drivers in a Saturday afternoon wreck on Hixson Pike that left one man dead and another in the hospital.
Hamilton County Schools received a $10,000 grant to fund programs in 10 public high schools. Funding came from The Pantry Inc., which owns about 1,600 convenience stores, primarily under the Kangaroo Express banner.
From the start, it’s been a roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination. GOP primary voters can catch their collective breath for the next two weeks after spending the past six lurching toward one candidate and then another in an exercise of political soul-searching that appears far from settled.
Rhea County schools will use Race to the Top funds to provide after-school and summer remedial instruction for pupils in danger of not passing from third to fourth grades, board of education members decided.






