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.
The yellow bursts of daffodils and coral clouds of budding quince bushes may need mulch or burlap coats. The early spring feel of January — one of the warmest ever recorded in Chattanooga — and early February is being shoved aside by an icy blast of winter.
He likes President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, but he would tweak it. He doesn't think Congress should be a "cushy job you never want to leave," but he won't set term limits on himself. He'll close the revenue gap, but he won't raise taxes.
"Hey, you guys didn't get the hint the first time?" Investigator John Patterson, his arm propped on the window of his patrol car, polarized glasses shielding his eyes, is speaking to men huddled along the sidewalk near Sandy's Mini Mart on Glass Street.
LaFayette High School art teacher Liz Hornik remembers how people reacted when she first got students to create public art for display around town. "LaFayette's getting all artsy." Resident comments like that prompted her to think, "Yes! That's exactly what I want."
A judge invoked a decision he made more than a year ago -- later overturned by a higher court -- to stop the recall election of Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield for a second time.
Leaders of two local programs that work with domestic violence victims and perpetrators say mandatory jail time and increased fines proposed by Tennessee's governor could help domestic violence problems.
Wacker Chemical is teaming with three area high schools to boost the studies of future chemists.
As many as 35 elected officials could come together here soon to share ideas about Bradley County and Cleveland school needs and how to fund them.
Freddie Roden, a lifelong Walker County resident and a current Catoosa County Sheriff's Office investigator, has announced he will run for Walker sheriff against incumbent Steve Wilson.
A local Democratic congressional candidate whose top issue is reducing the influence of special-interest money in politics refused this week to criticize President Barack Obama's reversal on that same issue.
A Chattanooga police officer who was arrested after he pulled a Taser on an Ooltewah man following a road rage incident was given a week off from work without pay and ordered to undergo anger management classes, according to police.
Bond was set at $30,000 today for a Dalton State College professor who is facing charges of child molestation, sodomy and rape involving an 8-year-old female and two other young girls whose families he befriended at church.
Judge Jeff Hollingsworth has ruled that the August recall election of Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield will be stopped.
