The woman with a master’s degree in alternative medicine fidgets as she waits to talk to a lawyer at Legal Aid of East Tennessee on McCallie Avenue.

A GOP candidate is challenging Hamilton County Juvenile Court Clerk Ron Swafford for the first time since Swafford first was elected 12 years ago.

Three local lawyers are competing for the job of Chancery Court judge in Hamilton County’s only contested judicial race.

A former city worker who lied about having cancer for five years and received thousands of dollars in cash and gifts said it never was about the money but about “the need to be loved.”

City Judge Sherry Paty has recused herself in the case against a local pet store, calling an e-mail she received from Mayor Ron Littlefield an attempt to sway her and an “an improper, unethical and perhaps contemptible disregard for the separation of powers.”

For almost nine years, the Hamilton County Juvenile Court unwittingly paid a total of $41,227 in monthly electric bills for a building it hasn’t used since 2001.

Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield said he would “gladly wave good-bye” to The Pet Company at Hamilton Place if he had any say in the matter.

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture has sent a letter to the Pet Company in Hamilton Place mall setting forth strict guidelines the business must agree to comply with if it wants to keep its state operating license.

Chattanooga has spent $40,000 housing animals seized from a local pet store, and now it wants its money back.

A Hamilton Place mall pet store will find out in a matter of days if the Tennessee Department of Agriculture will allow it to keep selling pets or if violations to the state code of animal care could lead to the suspension of the store’s license.

Running opposed for the first time since being elected 12 years ago, Hamilton County Juvenile Court Clerk Ron Swafford is defending his office and telling his GOP opponent that his job is more difficult than it seems.

Soddy-Daisy resident Maria Arndt suffers from HIV and lives on $857 a month in Social Security benefits.

Barely two months after a grisly sex party killing in Florida, local U.S. Marshals arrived with guns drawn at the Chattanooga Billiard Club.

Acquitted ex-school teacher Tonya Craft and her attorneys are seeking more time to prepare for an in-depth court hearing after which she hopes to be reunited with her children for good.

Tonya Craft and her lawyers have requested more time to prepare for a hearing to fight for custody of her kids, a court employee said this morning.

He calls himself “passionate” about many causes: cancer research, autism, how to get safe drinking water to developing countries.

A Chattanooga City Court judge on Wednesday deferred to state regulators, saying The Pet Company in Hamilton Place can get its pets back and resume selling them if the Tennessee Department of Agriculture allows the store to keep its operating license.

A city judge deferred today to state regulators, saying The Pet Company in Hamilton Place Mall will be able to resume its normal business practices if the Tennessee Department of Agriculture allows the store to keep its license to operate.

When local authorities caught on to one man’s routine in a small Illinois town of using newspaper ads to lure women to his home, he started placing ads in other states, they said.

The Hamilton County District Attorney’s office promised not to prosecute a young mother in relation to her child’s death if she took and passed a polygraph test, her attorney says.

Newly filed court documents indicate that the Hamilton County D.A.’s office promised not to prosecute a young mother in relation to the death of her child if she agreed to take and pass a polygraph test.

Longtime Chattanooga attorney Arthur C. “Art” Grisham could be the best contender for the vacant judgeship on the Hamilton County Chancery Court, or at least that’s what his peers say.

Sources close to a months-long federal investigation involving the Hamilton County trustee’s office say the county for years has mishandled payments made toward delinquent property taxes by those who are in Chapter 13 bankruptcy.

Hamilton County Trustee Carl Levi admitted Friday that federal investigators have for months been “unhappy” with the way the county keeps records of property tax payments.

Although former teacher Tonya Craft and her lawyers are "extremely happy" that a federal judge preliminarily shot down motions to dismiss their $25 million defamation lawsuit, there still is a long road ahead to win the case, they said.

A federal judge late Tuesday denied several motions to dismiss a $25 million lawsuit currently lodged against the accusers of a former North Georgia school teacher acquitted in May of child molestation charges.

A former employee of a Chattanooga-based barge company claims he was fired for refusing to perform and remain silent about illegal activities that compromised the safety of the general public, a lawsuit states.

The operations director of Chattanooga's family organization First Things First wants to change the way Hamilton County's Juvenile Court is run.

The goodness in people, the feelings of safety and hope, have made the resettlement of Mona Abood and her family in the United States from Iraq a lot easier.

An absence of case precedent when it comes to issues of judge shopping raised here last year has led the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals to agree to hear a local man's plea to dismiss charges pending against him in Hamilton County General Sessions Court.

The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to hear a case regarding allegations of judge shopping in Hamilton County General Sessions Court.

A little boy who fell about 20 feet Tuesday while visiting the Rock City tourist attraction was not on a designated trail, company officials said.

A manager of The Pet Company at Hamilton Place mall threw a hamster in a trash compactor because of the animal's history of fighting with other hamsters.

A little boy who fell about 20 feet at Rock City was “conscious and alert” as an ambulance took him to the hospital, police said this afternoon.

Local prosecutors are hailing as a hero the grandfather who chased down a child predator more than a year ago when the man snatched his granddaughter in broad daylight from an Ace Hardware store.

A Chattanooga man who tried to take a young girl from an East Brainerd Ace Hardware store in 2009 today was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges of aggravated kidnapping and attempted rape of a child.

Young Chattanooga attorney Kevin Loper had a great job with a Knoxville firm just months after graduating from law school in May of 2008.

Warehouse Row is continuing its transformation of downtown shopping with a unique environment and special shops.

The operations director of Chattanooga's family organization First Things First wants to change the way Hamilton County's Juvenile Court is run.

With condo options plentiful in downtown Chattanooga, more affordable housing choices still are needed, says one key player in the city's urban development.

NASHVILLE -- A pro bono summit in Nashville next year and an unprecedented partnership with public libraries are among the Tennessee Supreme Court's main goals for increasing awareness and access to the legal system for the state's poorest residents.

A medical emergency does not give people the right to put other people in danger by ignoring traffic laws, law enforcement officials say.

Prosecutors have agreed to hand over information about a past sexual assault case that eventually was dropped and involved the same teen now accusing a former Hamilton County sheriff's deputy of sexually assaulting her during an arrest.

A Chattanooga police officer who arrested a man last week for traffic violations as the man desperately was trying to get his wife to a hospital has been placed on paid administrative leave, according to a police spokeswoman.

The parents who accused a former schoolteacher of molesting their children could rack up at least $20,000 each in legal bills as they begin their defense in a massive defamation lawsuit, one Chattanooga lawyer said.

The state attorney general's office has said it has "no objection" to a man bypassing local jurisdiction and appealing straight to the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals in a case involving allegations of "judge shopping" in Hamilton County General Sessions Court.

Eyewitnesses unwilling to share information and one person's story that changed led authorities on Wednesday to make the rare decision to drop a first-degree murder charge in a high-profile street killing.

The Hamilton County District Attorney’s office today took the rare step of dismissing a first-degree murder charge in a high-profile 2008 killing because of lack of evidence.

The former schoolteacher who still is being courted by national media outlets to talk about her acquittal on child molestation charges emerged teary-eyed from a local judge’s chambers Monday after tense negotiations to be reunited with her children.

Tonya Craft and her ex-husband today had a hearing behind closed doors today regarding her visitation schedule with their two children.