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Tyler Jett

Stories by Tyler

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls: Step right up. By the end of today, you might turn $2 into $1 million.

The voice of Mark West and the sound of static at once entered an uneasy room Thursday night.

They've been run off the road, clipped by passing cars and flipped onto windshields.

A week after turning down the same position in East Ridge, Chris Dorsey has agreed to become Signal Mountain's town manager.

Youth baseball tastes like Gatorade after an at-bat. It smells like dirt, freshly raked. It looks like children in too-big helmets, bobbing heads atop skinny bodies, like waist-high astronauts with aluminum Easton bats in their hands.

We cannot retreat from the world, Anthony Fisher will say today.

East Ridge is 0 for 82 in turning city manager applications into actual city managers this year. But the City Council will keep searching.

Sometimes, no one wins.

East Ridge no longer has any city manager candidates.

Some of the 17 high school students arrested Sunday on suspicion of underage drinking are within days of graduating, but it seems likely that most will walk with their classmates.

Signal Mountain police arrested 17 high school students from the Baylor School, Girls Preparatory School and the McCallie School last weekend and charged them with drinking alcohol under age, police said.

Before Saturday, Michael Schwaid never stopped short.

Tony Stark is not impressed, Gig City.

East Ridge is down to one city manager candidate.

Tennessee is the second best on two wheels.

On the third floor of TVA's downtown Chattanooga office Tuesday morning, 16-year-old Taylor Jones peered into a laptop monitor, rotated a joystick and snapped his thumb onto a button.

Chattanooga State President Jim Catanzaro wants you to stay in school — specifically, his school.

When you see big beards and bigger backpacks, they're not attached to bums.

Fewer people are dying on the roads these days.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is examining whether Niota City Commissioners harassed employees.

The East Ridge City Council will interview its three city manager candidates one last time next Friday.

The Niota, Tenn., city government is up and running again.

The East Ridge City Council will interview its three city manager candidates one last time next Friday.

Hutcheson Medical Center leaders support a plan from Catoosa and Walker counties to restructure the hospital's long-term debt.

As a pair of residents debated two pieces of land and what to do with them on April 11, an elderly woman in the back of the East Ridge Council Chambers squeezed the sides of her seat and pushed. Her arms quivering, Dorothy "Dot" Guinn lifted herself up.

After she hugged her heroes and posed for a picture Saturday, Aubrey Abbott turned around to face Laura Marano and Ross Lynch one last time.

Robert Fisher was shooting baskets in a church gym in the Gentilly section of New Orleans last summer when a third-grader approached him.

For more than half a year, local authorities have planned how to handle next month's national championship cycling race.

A law means this. Or it means that. Who says?

Before they needed to lean on walking sticks or hunch their shoulders, they led thousands in a movement.

Coffee County, Tenn., Sheriff's Detective Chad Parton placed a phone call April 4. It had been a month since someone last saw the victim and more than three weeks since police found her body. Officers had a suspect, but they didn't have evidence, so Parton grasped for something, anything.

Before anyone could even be interviewed, East Ridge cut its list of city manager candidates in half.

TUSKEGEE, Ala. — Mekal Smith's speech wasn't a classic. It didn't change people's lives, didn't even last beyond half a minute.

The former city manager of Red Bank has applied for the same job in East Ridge.

Among the nine qualified candidates for East Ridge city manager sits the name Chris Dorsey, who once held the same position in Red Bank.

When David Richardson hopped inside his new plane March 29, his family suspects he thought of his grandson.

Reading glasses pushed to the edge of his nose, Ron Barclay sat atop his throne and scanned a folded sheet of paper.

On both sides of the road and around the corner, cars lined the 2000 block of Duncan Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. Twenty, 30 people came together in small groups to talk about what happened 12 hours earlier.

As far as crimes are concerned, Roy Grimes' sin seemed pretty light.

When Luis Perez jogged around the final turn, no other competitors even in sight, he bobbed his head left and right.

The man who fell through the sky Friday afternoon had been flying for years.

The apartment business is booming in Chattanooga.

Chattanooga police have been searching for Kelly Eugene Dobbs since he went missing from his home Tuesday night.

The East Ridge City Council created a group it hopes will help change some city rules.

The East Ridge City Council created a group it hopes will help change some city rules.

"Turn around," Hannah Patterson's mother urged. She wanted to see the off-white Watters & Watters dress from all angles.

The Hamilton County school board approved a new busing agreement that should save taxpayers about $2 million.

Before he thought inside a think tank, Andrew Exum's handwriting was neat, and his interest in violent abolitionist John Brown was just a tiny bit troubling.

A couple of fishermen hollered at John Justice, who stood across the dark green water at the edge of his own boat. They wanted one like his, one with orange poles jutting out the front, one that seemed to draw the fish right in as if Jesus himself were on board.

Nicole Frische began preparing for Saturday's spelling bee last summer, studying with a special computer program and asking her parents to quiz her on the weekends.

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