The mother of a man charged with killing a Chattanooga police sergeant last year rants in jailhouse letters to her son that Tennesseans are a “stupid hillbilly, Jack Daniel selling ... backward, Bible belt, inbred ... bunch of haters” and shows scant remorse for her own crimes in the case.
Leaders of two local programs that work with domestic violence victims and perpetrators say mandatory jail time and increased fines proposed by Tennessee's governor could help domestic violence problems.
Part of Gov. Bill Haslam's major public safety overhaul would put wife beaters in jail and impose higher fines for the abuse. "We have a problem in our state that we need to address," said Bill Gibbons, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security and head of Haslam's subcommittee on public safety.
Jurors who found Jamaul Herman not guilty of murder on Wednesday told a prosecutor there was not enough evidence to convince them he pulled the trigger on Jerome Timmons on July 4, 2010.
A criminal court jury has found Jamaul Herman not guilty of murder.
A jury will reconvene this morning to continue deliberating the fate of a 29-year-old man charged with murder.
Rodney Smith clutched Carlos, his black-and-white Chihuahua, as he stood before a standing room-only crowd of more than 100 people in court.
The second-degree murder trial of a 21-year-old man charged in the shooting death of another man is scheduled March 6.
Convicted murderer Fredrick Brown, who lodged a chancy appeal of his guilty pleas and sentencing for killing two men in separate shootings, won a small victory Friday.
The fiancee of a man on trial for murder testified Friday that in the hours before the shooting the defendant did not have a weapon. Arlinda Moorer said she met with Jamaul Herman, her fiancee, at The Palace near midnight on July 3, 2010, and the pair stayed together until the club closed just after 2 a.m.
A jury found a 38-year-old Chattanooga man guilty of voluntary manslaughter today in a decades old murder case.
Fredrick Brown is awaiting a jury's decision to see if his legal appeal, which got him in front of a jury to face the first of two first-degree murder charges, will give him a chance to leave prison early.
The defense attorney for Jamaul Herman jabbed at points in the murder investigation against her client Thursday, trying to create uncertainty in jurors' minds.
The murder trial of a 29-year-old Chattanooga man resumes this morning and the lead investigator is expected to testify.
If twice-convicted murderer Fredrick "Bay Bay" Brown wins his legal gamble, he could be freed in weeks from prison, where he has spent the past 20 years.
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that former Hamilton County Sheriff Billy Long should receive a new sentence based on an error in his original sentencing.
A 38-year-old Chattanooga man who pleaded guilty to two murders nearly 20 years ago began his trial in the first death Tuesday.
Prosecutors opened the murder trial against a 29-year-old man by describing how two witnesses followed him after a street shooting, then called authorities, who captured him after a car and foot chase.
Nearly 20 years after a Chattanooga man pleaded guilty to two separate murders his new trial in the first death began today.
Jury selection is complete in the first day of a murder trial of a Chattanooga man charged in the shooting death of another man on July 4, 2010.
A federal appeals court has ruled that former Hamilton County Sheriff Billy Long should receive a new sentence based on an error in his original sentencing.
An air of stunned disbelief hovered in the Hamilton County Courthouse as news of the unexpected death of General Sessions Judge Bob Moon filtered through the halls Thursday.
A Chattanooga man faces up to 40 years in prison after being convicted Thursday of killing a 17-year-old boy. Walter Glenn, 37, will be sentenced for second-degree murder on April 2.
A jury this morning found a 37-year-old Chattanooga man guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 17-year-old.
Hamilton County General Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon has died from a massive heart attack, according to court house officials and secretarial staff.
A Hamilton County jury will continue deliberations today in the murder trial of a 37-year-old Chattanooga man.
A Chattanooga parking company has released a statement in response to a recent civil lawsuit filed alleging racist practices by at least one of its employees.
A jury is deliberating the first-degree murder charge against a 37-year-old Chattanooga man.
If allegations of abuse are true, a judge said a 4-year-old boy lived in a "house of horrors" before his death as he sent criminal charges against the mother and her boyfriend to the grand jury on Tuesday.
The victim's dying words were the focus of the prosecutor's opening statement and first witness Tuesday in the murder trial of a 37-year-old Chattanooga man.
A mother and her boyfriend will face the grand jury on charges they murdered the woman's 4-year-old son.
Jury selection is complete in the first day of the murder trial of a 37-year-old Chattanooga man.
Neither the prosecution nor the defense drew any fire Monday when they questioned the brother and business partner of a man facing federal charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, Clean Air Act violations and obstruction of justice.
A chancellor said Monday that the Chattanooga Beer and Wrecker Board could not revoke the beer sales permit of a downtown club because the two citations had not happened within 12 months of each other.
A 36-year-old Shelbyville, Tenn., man was sentenced Monday to one year of probation, a $1,000 fine and also is required to write an article for publication about the crime to which he pleaded guilty.
The first of four people to plead guilty in a federal horse soring case was sentenced this morning to one-year probation and given a $1,000 fine by U.S. District Court Judge Harry S. “Sandy” Mattice.
Lawyers for Hamilton County 911 have added new allegations and another county to a federal lawsuit against AT&T/BellSouth that seeks a decade's worth of unpaid fees.
A former female Silverdale correctional officer charged with having a sexual relationship with an inmate will be in court again in March.
Testimony in a federal criminal trial Thursday focused on how unprotected workers cleared asbestos-covered debris from the site of a demolished Chattanooga textile plant.
Three employees of Republic Parking System have filed a lawsuit, saying their immediate supervisor used racist comments, sexually offensive language and displayed a hanging noose in the company's downtown office.
Deborah Grassman has spent decades helping veterans through the last stages of their lives.
The parents of a 2-year-old girl killed when her 5-year-old stepbrother shot her with dad's pistol both have suffered equal pain after the tragedy, one of their attorneys said Tuesday.
Criminal Court Judge Rebecca Stern has set a new trial date for the parents of a child shot by her 5-year-old stepbrother.
Julie Podlesni took an online "Jeopardy!" quiz on a friend's suggestion last February but didn't expect it to amount to anything.
The first time Cpl. Cory Smith ran for 20 miles was the first day of his planned 650-mile run from Fort Benning, Ga., to Indianapolis.
Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dowd commands the U.S. Army's 1st Sustainment Command. The command oversaw operations for the troop withdrawal from Iraq, which included the recently returned 230th Sustainment Brigade out of Chattanooga.
A 21-year-old accused of shooting an 18-year-old to death at an East Brainerd party last spring returned to court for the first time Wednesday since attending a four-month Christian-oriented program in Florida.
A 22-year-old Chattanooga man shot in the leg by a Hamilton County sheriff's deputy during a residence search in 2010 has filed a lawsuit seeking $250,000 for his injury.
A contentious four-hour preliminary hearing in Hamilton County Sessions Court ended Tuesday with a 24-year-old Chattanooga woman facing indictment in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old girl.
Hamilton County Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon has sent a murder charge against a 24-year-old Chattanooga woman to the grand jury.
