Generally speaking, restaurateurs want you to come to their place, stay awhile, eat a nice meal, enjoy a cocktail or three and spend a little money. It's how they make their living and what they enjoy.

Six hundred residents of Whitfield County ages 65 and older will get the COVID-19 vaccine at a satellite drive-thru on Monday, Jan. 18, after registration for the vaccine filled up in less than three hours once the application process was opened.

The coronavirus vaccines have been rolled out unevenly across the U.S., but four states in the Deep South have had particularly dismal inoculation rates that have alarmed health experts and frustrated residents.

People who need their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine will be able to make an appointment to receive it beginning Friday.

A poll of Chattanoogans this week indicated businessman Tim Kelly is leading among those who have made a choice in the largely undecided pool of potential voters in the March mayoral election and emphasized the importance of housing and economic issues.

Ellen Haygood Phillips, a retired English teacher who wrote the Consumer Watch column for the Times Free Press, died Friday due to COVID-19. She was 73.

Kevin Wallace was crying. He asked God for forgiveness.

The pandemic and recession aren't over by a long shot, but banks are feeling optimistic enough to start taking potentially "bad" loans off their books and move them back into the "good" pile.

A Nokian Tyres' official, speaking at the launch of a key all-season tire last week, used a down-home analogy that likely anyone at its Dayton, Tennessee, production plant would understand.

The Erlanger Heart and Lung Institute has named Cheryl Wieber, MHA, as senior director of cardiovascular services.

Kevin Wallace was crying. He asked God for forgiveness.

Mark your calendar. Wednesday's date is a palindrome — 1/20/2021 — reading the same backward and forward.

These days especially, we crave mercy, that plenitude both given and received in times of loss and uncertainty.

The Georgia High School Association wrestling postseason began Friday with area and region duals for some teams, and Sonoraville wasted little time displaying a dominance coach Randy Steward hopes takes the Phoenix to the program's first duals state championship.

In defeating Furman on Friday, the UTC women's basketball team may have had a revelation: If you don't turn the ball over, the game gets easier.

Former Baylor School and University of Georgia golfers Harris English and Keith Mitchell rallied in the second round of the Sony Open on Friday after being unable to take advantage of a good opening day for scoring at Waialae Country Club.

One could argue (and some have) that Donald Trump — as flawed, terrible, ignorant, incompetent, racist and narcissistic as he is — was exactly what America deserved.

Five years ago, with the approach of the Republican presidential primaries, discussions always seemed to include the question: "When will Trump start acting presidential?"

We seem to all be trapped in the curse: "May you live in interesting times."