Hamilton County Schools has expanded some of the neighborhoods that will be rezoned from Ooltewah Middle and High to East Hamilton Middle and High this fall.

Dalton, Ga., police are searching for a 17-year-old girl who ran away from the custody of her group home on Tuesday.

Former Etowah, Tennessee, police chief Eric Armstrong turned himself in to McMinn County authorities Thursday after being sought on a misdemeanor assault by domestic violence warrant since an incident Sunday.

The main gateway to Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport will undergo a big upgrade as Shepherd Road is turned into a tree-lined, boulevard-like artery, officials said Thursday.

A utility company will pay the largest criminal fine ever imposed for breaking a federal pipeline safety law — $53 million — and plead guilty to causing a series of natural gas explosions in Massachusetts that killed one person and damaged dozens of homes, federal officials said Wednesday.

The women's fashion boutique Versona opens Thursday in Hamilton Place Mall.

Riverbend Festival organizers have announced this year's full schedule.

DEAR ABBY: I was born into a poor family, and my father gave me up for adoption to his well-to-do sister. My narcissistic adoptive mother severely abused me physically, mentally and emotionally as a child, and tormented me financially as an adult. I no longer speak to her.

Clive Cussler, the million-selling adventure writer and real-life thrill-seeker who wove personal details and spectacular fantasies into his page-turning novels about underwater explorer Dirk Pitt, has died, his publisher said Wednesday.

Kerwin Danley became the first African American umpire crew chief in Major League Baseball when a series of promotions, additions and retirements were announced Thursday.

Ever since it was founded by the late Jack Lupton in 1983, The Honors Course has viewed itself as the ultimate celebration of amateur golf.

The details are pretty clear. Other than Santiago Vescovi's excellent shooting form, almost every other aspect of UT's point guard play has ranged from subpar to stinky.

Speaking as one who has a degree in political science, it would seem to me that the so-called BID (see Chattanooga Times Free Press, Feb. 14) is prima facie unconstitutional in that it constitutes a special service taxation district, a legal entity that unless I'm mistaken has never been authorized by your legislature.

Chris Haddock is a family medicine doctor in Ringgold, Georgia, and by all accounts a good one.

Normally you'd have to go to a youth hockey all-star meeting to see that many white people yelling at each other at the same time.