The Baylor School girls won the championship and the Baylor boys were second by 15 to favored Montgomery Belly Academy as the state high school swimming and diving meet concluded Saturday night at the Centennial Sportsplex.

Bryan College completed a three-game baseball series sweep of the University of Rio Grande with 5-0 and 4-3 victories Saturday at Dayton.

The Cleveland State men's basketball team upset Chattanooga State 78-69 in TCCAA play Saturday in Chattanooga, after the host Lady Tigers won 76-58 despite trailing at halftime.

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.

Cory Simpson has been hired to coach receivers for McCallie's football team. "I know Cory from his playing days, and I got to know him this past winter when the announcement was made that I was coming back," said head coach Ralph Potter, who is back at McCallie after four seasons at Brentwood Academy.

Coach Doug Simons has consistently improved his Covenant College baseball team since beginning the Scots program's revival on Lookout Mountain five years ago.

Local and federal authorities have arrested three people charged in connection with the distribution of large quantities of methamphetamine in Whitfield County.

State Rep. Matt Ramsey has introduced legislation that would require school systems to have at least two personnel trained in diabetes treatment.

Senior Sam Eberle from Chattanooga and Notre Dame High School is one of five Jacksonville State University players named to the 13-man preseason All-Ohio Valley Conference baseball team.

Two inmates who escaped from Walker State Prison in Rock Spring, Monday night were captured Tuesday about three miles from the facility, a Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman said.

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Former Notre Dame High School softball standout Annie Sells of Chattanooga is one of the six members of the 2012 induction class of the Armstrong Atlantic State University Athletic Hall of Fame.

Local law officers are searching for a convicted thief who escaped from the Silverdale Correctional Facility early Sunday morning.

"Gangs are in Chattanooga. Gangs are killing people in Chattanooga. Gangs are overrunning some Chattanooga neighborhoods."

Wes Moore, in his first season coaching girls' basketball at District 7-AA member Notre Dame, formerly coached boys' basketball at Signal Mountain and makes his first return to his old gymnasium tonight.

McMinn County Sheriff Joe Guy awarded country music star Vince Gill an honorary narcotics investigator badge to help raise awareness of drug abuse.

A spokesman for House Speaker David Ralston says the chamber is unlikely to take up legislation that would create a "sunset committee" to weigh whether to cut certain state agencies until changes are made to the bill.

The U.S. market for single-family homes continued to wobble, with prices declining again in November, nearly six years after they began to fall, a private report showed on Tuesday.

The body of Dixie Yvonne Brown, a missing Chattooga County woman who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, was found Tuesday morning in a wooded area about a mile from her home on Dry Creek Road, County Coroner Earle Rainwater said.

The long-strong Chattanooga State softball program completed probably the best four-day run in its history Monday with wins of 4-0 and 16-9 over North Idaho, giving the 11th-ranked Lady Tigers a 10-0 sweep of its season-opening visit to Henderson, Nev.

The Tennessee Wesleyan women's basketball team recently moved into the NAIA Division II Top 25 and first place in the Appalachian Athletic Conference, and Saturday the No. 20 Lady Bulldogs whipped No. 24 Union College in the second half and won 62-46 in Athens.

The Lee University men's basketball team, ranked 17th in NAIA Division I, shot only 33.3 percent from the field and committed 19 turnovers but scrapped out a 60-50 win Tuesday evening in Chattanooga against longtime rival Tennessee Temple.

The Lee University women's basketball team, ranked No. 6 in NAIA Division I, won 91-66 at Southern Polytechnic on Saturday, but the 18th-ranked Lee men lost 84-79 to the No. 4 Hornets in the second game of the Southern States Athletic Conference doubleheader.

The body of a man found Saturday afternoon has been identified as Brian Coulter, 29, from Dayton, Tenn., according to the Meigs County Sheriff’s Office.

Area fans of the Atlanta Braves can see some of the team's top young stars on Feb. 9 when the annual Braves Caravan makes a visit to the downtown Taco Mac.

Local high school basketball players Cordell James and C.J. Reese of McCallie and Chadarryl Clay of GPS recently received 2012 McDonald's All-America nominations.

The Tennessee Wesleyan College basketball teams swept an Appalachian Athletic Conference home basketball doubleheader Saturday afternoon against Milligan, while Bryan's teams both almost beat first-place Bluefield on the road in Virginia.

A 28-year-old man underwent emergency surgery Thursday night for gunshot wounds he sustained that afternoon at a Brainerd address.

The Georgia chapter of the NAACP is asking state lawmakers to end capital punishment.

Former Red Bank High School standout Tim Benford, who just completed his Tennessee Tech football career with FCS All-America recognition, has committed to play Jan. 21 in the 87th East-West Shrine Game in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Tickets for tonight's Howard-Brainerd game will go on sale at noon today at Brainerd High School. Admission is $5 and a large crowd is expected as usual.

Interim commissioner Jay Gardiner has been hired as the full-time commissioner of the new Southern Athletic Association for NCAA Division III schools including Sewanee.

Almost every county in the Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia region was home to a homicide in 2011, records show.

First Security Group announced Thursday that the bank’s new chief executive, Michael Kramer, has been elected to the bank’s board and will receive 35,000 shares of stock valued at $67,200.

Volkswagen of America will advertise during the Super Bowl for the third consecutive year, premiering a 60-second spot at the beginning of the third quarter.

Volkswagen of America will advertise during the Super Bowl for the third consecutive year, premiering a 60-second spot at the beginning of the third quarter.

Leo Born and Reggie Upshaw combined for 15 first-period points as Baylor soared to a 24-10 lead on its way to a 61-46 win Friday in the boys' third-place game of the Times Free Press Best of Preps Tournament at Arts & Sciences.

Gasoline prices dropped below $3 a gallon at some service stations in Chattanooga and North Georgia despite a rise in oil prices Friday above $100 per barrel.