A local construction company owner noticed when one of his accounting employees didn't show for work on June 15, 2011. That same day, he spotted the man suspected of killing her.

A lot of people have said a lot of things over the course of the federal fraud trial of Joshua Dobson about how he ran his end of a land development in Dade County, Ga.

The murder trial of Randall Reed in the alleged June 2011 smothering death of 70-year-old East Ridge resident Jane Stokes began this morning with jury selection.

Prosecutors in a federal fraud trial here want to keep the story simple.

Investigators pored over half a million documents during a six-year investigation to find major medical fraud problems at three TVA nuclear plants and root out the man responsible — Walter Cardin.

A man prosecutors say ran gambling operations for the former mayor of South Pittsburg, Tenn., has agreed to plead guilty to a federal gambling charge.

The man known until now only as “Person A” in the federal gambling prosecution of former South Pittsburg Mayor Mike Killian has been named — Robert Barry Cole.

A 55-year-old Louisiana man convicted on charges of major fraud while handling safety reviews at TVA nuclear sites has been sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison.

Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet managed to drive a third of the Union Army from the battlefield at Chickamauga nearly 150 years ago.

A bank officer testified Wednesday that had she known Southern Group was funding down payments and monthly payments for land buyers, her bank never would have approved the loans.

A Chattanooga woman claims in a lawsuit that city police spread rumors she was a snitch after she filed a complaint against an officer, and later arrested her under false pretenses on a charge that was recently dismissed.

The co-defendant and cousin of a man who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 2010 beating death of a local pastor will face a hearing on the same charges April 23.

A 59-year-old Methodist minister who'd never bought land in her life testified in federal court Tuesday that she was left holding $600,000 in mortgages and had to declare bankruptcy after Josh Dobson and Paul Gott III stopped making promised payments on three Dade County, Ga., land parcels.

Antonio Henry pleaded guilty this morning to second-degree murder and 20 years in prison for his role in the beating death of David Strong.

Josh Dobson and Paul Gott III set up a mortgage fraud scheme in which they used buyers' good credit histories and signatures to get hefty bank loans, but then "bamboozled" the buyers with "lies and deceptions" and left investors holding expensive second mortgages with no way to pay, a federal prosecutor said Monday.

A former Chattanooga police officer who failed to convince a three-member City Council panel to give him his job back said Monday he will appeal — again.

A City Council panel voted 2-1 this morning to deny former Chattanooga Police Department Officer Mickel Hoback his job back.

A former Chattanooga Police Department officer could find out today whether he will get back the job he lost in 2009.

District attorneys, public defenders and a few legislators in a local area that will be heavily affected by a proposed judicial redistricting plan say changes are not needed. Many question Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey's motives.

Deep in the bowels of a building on the UTC campus, a team of eight engineering students is trying get "Scrappy," a chemically powered car, to move a measured distance and stop at a line of blue tape on the concrete floor.

A woman who claimed in court documents that her doctor husband tried to poison her has reached a settlement and dropped the protective order against him.

One of them worked with the U.S. Army in Baghdad. One arrived here as a 12-year-old boy, the voices of his classmates indecipherable. One traveled across the Pacific Ocean, met a man and married.

Former Tennessee Walking Horse trainer Jackie McConnell has been indicted by a Fayette County grand jury on 22 counts of animal cruelty related to alleged horse soring actions.

On Jan. 9, 2010, Jackie Campbell was stopped while driving from his Atlanta home and into Chattanooga. Police searched his car and found 170 grams of crack cocaine.

A combination of statistics, computer confusion and lack of communication slapped attorneys in a federal health care fraud case in the face Tuesday when they met with the federal judge handling trial preparations.

The 43-year-old mother of a toddler began her second trial on charges she attempted to smother her son while he was being treated for digestive problems at Erlanger hospital.

A woman who faces first-degree murder charges in connection with the 2011 stabbing death of a 15-year-old girl has a new lawyer and hearing date.

A 39-year-old Chattanooga man saw charges of attempted murder in two separate incidents sent to the grand jury after a hearing Tuesday.

Multiple witnesses testified in Sessions Court this morning that Celvin “Squeaky” Houston told them he’d shot someone after two separate incidents in March.

Nadine Turchin came from Russian royalty but understood the ways of war.

After more than 10 hours of deliberation, a jury in the murder trial of Temekia Reed was stuck 10 to 2.

A hung jury in Hamilton County Criminal Court late today resulted in Judge Rebecca Stern declaring a mistrial.

Nail bombs coated in rat poison.

Lanita "Pumkin" Wells testified matter-of-factly Wednesday that she and her nieces were in College Hill Courts on Dec. 19, 2011, to buy marijuana.

Frame by frame, a street fight unfolds on the screen before the jury.

The murder trial of a 25-year-old Chattanooga woman began this morning in the 2011 stabbing death of a 15-year-old girl.

A Chatsworth, Ga., man is suing Bryan College and the National Association of Christian Athletes for $20 million, alleging he snapped his spine and became a paraplegic while on an unsafe obstacle course the association operated near Dayton, Tenn.

A 31-year-old Chattanooga man was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison Monday for crack cocaine sales.

The DeLong Military Reservation on North Crest Road in Missionary Ridge will remain closed while park rangers investigate and repair two vandalized Civil War-era cannons.

Two Civil War-era cannons inside a local federal park reservation have been vandalized and the area is closed pending a federal investigation.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has upheld a conviction and 18-year prison sentence for a 37-year-old Chattanooga man in a kidnapping case dating to 1998.

A 47-year-old Dalton, Ga., man has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against Chattanooga and its police department, alleging racial profiling in an arrest last year.

An email between an attorney and his client, sent by mistake to prosecutors as part of preparations for an April 8 federal fraud trial, nearly scrapped the entire investigation Monday.

In April 1862 two dozen Union soldiers disguised as civilians had infiltrated Confederate lines and made it to Marietta, Ga.

Today marks a half-century since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that poor people charged with felony crimes had a right to an attorney.

Jesse Mathews lives alone in a cell 23 hours a day at West Tennessee State Penitentiary in Henning, Tenn.

Shannon Ory's trial played out like the plot of a Lifetime movie, complete with a threatened mistress and allegations that he plotted to kill his wife himself, then tried to hire it done.

Waiting for her soldier at Chattanooga's National Guard Armory on Thursday, Ramanda Dennison said the past year has been a "roller coaster."

Lawyers expect jurors today will receive the case against a man charged with trying to kidnap and kill his ex-wife.

A 33-year-old Chattanooga man who was shot when he pointed a weapon toward a police officer in a 2012 gambling raid and was later charged with attempted murder had a separate rape charge dismissed Thursday.