Randall Higgins covers news in Cleveland, Tenn., for the Times Free Press.
He started work with the Chattanooga Times in 1977 and joined the staff of the Chattanooga Times Free Press when the Free Press and Times merged in 1999.
Randall has covered Southeast Tennessee, Northwest Georgia and Alabama. He now covers Cleveland and Bradley County and the neighboring region.
Randall is a Cleveland native. He has bachelor’s degree from Tennessee Technological University.
His awards include a 1977 Golden Press Card Award from Sigma Delta Chi (Society of Professional Journalists) for coverage of the Melisha Gibson child abuse and murder case. He worked for the Cleveland Daily Banner from 1972 to 1977.
Contact Randall at 423-314-1029 or rhiggins@timesfreepress.com.
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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.
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.
Wacker Chemical is teaming with three area high schools to boost the studies of future chemists.
Asbestos has been removed from the tornado-stricken Blue Springs Elementary School building and now the Bradley County School Board will be seeking bids for demolition of the building.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Once upon a time, Elizabeth Rose told stories to rafters while she worked as an Ocoee River guide.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — The annual cost per route to run a city school bus here is about $32,000 a year, but school board members would like it to be less and are paying for a study on the issue.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- Children at three Bradley County schools have an extra source of medical help -- a pediatric clinic on wheels. The pilot program is one of 44 Ronald McDonald Care Mobile clinics around the world.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- Like Dorothy's red shoes in "The Wizard of Oz," the mission of court appointed special advocates is to help children caught up in the court system find their way home.
The future veterans home here is not a nursing home, but rather a living center, donors and veterans say.
The district attorney handling the probe into a Bradley County Sessions Court judge said Thursday the FBI has asked for information in the case.
