The Dunlap man accused in the Sequatchie County Christmas Eve shooting — and four days later, the Hixson cop shooting, patrol unit carjacking and subsequent police chase — previously pleaded guilty to spraying another man's legs with gunfire from an "Uzi" submachine gun.
Six years and five days after a Chattanooga man was accused of bludgeoning a group home caretaker to death with a brick, whether he can one day be competent enough to stand trial remains to be answered.
Even as the region might be spared the worst-predicted conditions, meteorologists are still calling for snowfall totals around an inch or less in the Chattanooga area, with the storm total ice down to around a fourth of an inch or less this weekend.
As a winter storm of uncertain magnitude will soon come to the region, Chattanooga's air quality dropped to unhealthy levels Wednesday night and into Thursday morning.
The city of Soddy-Daisy agreed to pay $830,000, evenly split, to the two former police officers who claimed they were wrongfully terminated for speaking out about another officer's behavior.
The next court date is set for the Chattanooga woman accused of second-degree murder after hotel staff found a man dead with a gunshot wound to the head in a hotel room on Hamilton Place Boulevard.
A Hamilton County judge halved the bond Tuesday for the former church deacon accused of nine charges of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor.
A man was shot multiple times and killed at a Waffle House late Sunday night, according to the East Ridge Police Department.
A former Chattanooga police sergeant who was terminated after allegations of untruthfulness was decertified Friday from working in Tennessee law enforcement, unless he appeals.
A 23-year-old man who was shot by Hamilton County sheriff's deputies in November and then charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder had his case passed up to a grand jury after a probable cause hearing Thursday.
