The immunologist who leads the COVID-19 response in the United States said Sunday that "the undeniable effects of racism" have led to unacceptable health disparities that especially hurt African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans during the pandemic.

Children are having their noses swabbed or saliva sampled at school to test for the coronavirus in cities such as Baltimore, New York and Chicago. In other parts of the U.S., school districts are reluctant to check even students showing signs of illness for COVID-19.

With just days left in the school year, masks dominated the conversation at the Hamilton County school board meeting Thursday night.

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday defended the decision to ease mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, stressing that increasing political pressure had nothing to do with the abrupt shift in guidelines.

Since Tennessee's first public charter schools opened in Memphis and Nashville in 2003, the state's charter sector has been contained to its four largest cities. But that could change in a few years under expansion work by Gov. Bill Lee's administration.

A small sign identifying Beck Knob Cemetery stands in a tangle of kudzu, underbrush and briers near the corner of a lot at Dartmouth Street and Carrington Way, but there's no indication of its importance to Black history in Chattanooga.

With just days left in the school year, masks dominated the conversation at the Hamilton County school board meeting Thursday night.

A Canadian company will invest $30 million to increase production at a middle Georgia sawmill, part of a series of overhauls of its Georgia sawmills.

Brook Weresuk says that Bird Dog Parking is not so much a parking company but a hospitality business.

Most of their clients made it in under the wire, but some business owners are left wondering if they'll get Paycheck Protection Program funding after the money dried up nearly a month ahead of the application deadline of May 31.

In some of her University of Tennessee at Chattanooga classes, Kalani Cannon, 22, was the only non-white student.

DEAR ABBY: Like many people in this country, my family has an aversion to throwing things out that might still be useful.

A white plastic binder marked "confidential" on the cover, and the spine, sits on the table in front of the Rev. Brian Salter.

The Tennessee Volunteers have experienced two gargantuan Southeastern Conference baseball series this spring inside Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

Freddie Freeman's seventh-inning grand slam put the Atlanta Braves in line for a series sweep Sunday afternoon, but the Milwaukee Brewers did enough to escape with a one-run home win.

Alex Bowman parked the No. 48 Chevrolet in its familiar spot in victory lane at Dover International Speedway, leading a dominant outing for Hendrick Motorsports on Sunday afternoon.

In some of her University of Tennessee at Chattanooga classes, Kalani Cannon, 22, was the only non-white student.

One hundred years ago, the 1920 census showed Tennessee had more males than females, had a decreasing Black population and relatively few people born south of the country's border, and was a distinctively rural, agricultural state.

In the same week when more and more Republican lawmakers were making light of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol - one Georgia representative even saying it looked to him like "a normal tourist visit" - top Democratic and Republican members of the House Homeland Security Committee reached agreement on legislation to form a 9/11-style bipartisan Jan. 6 commission to investigate the riot and insurrection.