People used their Memorial Day to visit the Chattanooga National Cemetery on Monday, May 25, 2020 in Chattanooga, Tenn.

The Hamilton County Health Department announced the first coronavirus-related death in the county in more than five weeks on Monday.

In the early weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak in Chattanooga, essential workers feared for their safety as they continued working while other businesses shut down or sent people home to work.

Hertz filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, unable to withstand the coronavirus pandemic that has crippled global travel and with it, the heavily indebted 102-year-old car rental company's business.

The Chattanooga hotel market was the most occupied in the country in the week following devastating Easter Sunday tornadoes that displaced thousands of people and brought thousands more into town to help with recovery.

With my family's insurance renewals coming up, I've spent the past couple of months checking out home and auto coverage from different companies.

DEAR ABBY: I recently lost a lot of weight and finally felt confident enough to start dating.

DEAR ABBY: My husband has a bad habit of forgetting to lock up our house at night when he's the last one to come to bed.

Emily Howard, 92, has been busy with a special project lately.

Growing up in a rough part of Chicago's South Side, Saint Wilkins figured he was headed for a life on the streets.

This side of the Masters and that early-morning British Open dual between Phil Mickelson and Henrik Stenson a few years ago, I watched more of The Match on Sunday than any other single-golf telecast in my life.

Tennis, anyone? Not at Roland Garros Stadium. Nobody was there. Maybe they will be in September.

It's been a plunging fall for Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, once complimented by like-minded members of the national media for his handling of the COVID-19 virus in his state.

The message at the top of the Tennessee State Government web page states "Do your part. Stay apart."

It feels particularly cruel that the year in which the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II is marked will see no public Memorial Day ceremony at the Chattanooga National Cemetery and no flags at each of the more than 50,000 graves in the nearly 121-acre expanse.