Hunt Gilliland, director of golf at Council Fire, shares his tips and techniques to ensure a proper grip when holding a golf club.

A local school board member and a UTC administrator comment on Gov. Phil Bredesen’s plan to cut education funding by more than $189 million.

A recent study published in the Archives of Surgery found that the number of general surgeons is declining. Many surgeons are deciding to switch to less demanding, better paying medical specialties, rather than keep up with the demands of the general surgeon lifestyle.

According to the Tennessee Department of Education, more than 40 percent of school children statewide are overweight or at risk of being overweight. Russell Cliche hopes to change that. As director of the coordinated school health program for Hamilton County Schools, he and a team of school nurses since September have been recording the height, weight and blood pressure of about 2,000 local students.

The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu spoke to more than 800 people at the University of the South during a graduation ceremony for students in the seminary school.

Construction workers topped off BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s new downtown Chattanooga campus on Thursday by ceremonially placing a tree atop the final structure to be completed. The ceremony marked the completion of work on the concrete shells of the five structures on Cameron Hill.

Hunt Gilliland, director of golf at Council Fire, shares his tips and techniques on chipping basics.

Take a tour of McNabb Mines, a late 1800s coal boomtown in Marion County. The town, also known as Shakerag, was home to 50 to 100 people and was abandoned between 1903 and 1910. The site has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Ex-Hamilton County Sheriff Billy Long pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to 27 of 28 extortion, money laundering, gun and drug charges.

Teamsters Union boss Jimmy Hoffa was found guilty of jury tampering at a 1964 trial in Chattanooga. He was sentenced to eight years in prison. Advanced Video Solutions recently completed a documentary on the trial commissioned by the Federal Bar Association for private use. A public showing of the hour-long movie is set for the local Back Row Film Series in July.

T.J. Johnson was in a car wreck at the age of 16 and was in a coma for nine months. He is currently 18 and has brain damage that limits his cognitive abilities and keeps him in a wheelchair most of the time. Despite his hardships, he attended his Central High School senior prom on April 26.

Hamilton County and the Chattanooga Area Veterans Council on Friday honored military personnel at the 59th annual Armed Forces Day Parade in downtown Chattanooga.

Caliente, a three-year-old adopted wild mustang with a hearing disability, is from Caliente, Nevada, but now lives on a farm in Chattanooga. By using body language, young people from Siskin Children's Institute learn to communicate with “Cali.”

Chattanooga traffic officials have released a list of the highest-rated intersection accident locations for 2006. With 51 accidents, or 6.53 accidents per million vehicles entering the intersection, Hixson Pike North at Highway 153 North was the most dangerous location. Watch as city Traffic Engineer John Van Winkle describes some of Chattanooga’s worst intersections.

Hunt Gilliland, director of golf at Council Fire, shares his tips and techniques to perform proper putting basics.