Blockbuster will close its last remaining store in Chattanooga next month, but the movie rental chain will continue to operate stores in Cleveland and Athens, Tenn.

Lee University junior Matt Emery from Frankin, Tenn., is an NAIA men's golf first-team All-American for the second straight year, and fellow Lee junior Hunter Vest from Walker Valley High School made the 2013 second team.

Former McCallie School standout Sean Ryan from Hixson followed up his second-place 10-kilometer finish Friday at the USA Swimming Open Water National Championships in California with a close third-place 5k finish Sunday.

Pamala K. Cuzzort has been appointed vice president and chief administrative officer of Johnston Southern Co.

The shorthanded Chattanooga Football Club squad lost to a new National Premier Soccer League member, the Gulfcoast Texans, 1-0 on Saturday night in Pensacola, Fla.

These people filed for marriage licenses in the Hamilton County Clerk's office May 6-10:

Top Safety Department officials led a special memorial service in Nashville on Friday honoring Tennessee state troopers and other law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty to commemorate National Police Week.

* Entrepreneur Bookkeeping from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Monday at The INCubator: 100 Cherokee Blvd.

Joseph "Nick" D. Decosimo, managing principal of the Chattanooga accounting firm of Joseph Decosimo and Co., is joining the board of the recently recapitalized First Security Group Inc., pending regulatory approval.