Longtime Chattanooga police Sgt. Scott Avila was fired recently after an internal investigation concluded that, while off duty, he pointed a gun multiple times at another man in a road rage incident last year and then lied to investigators.
The criminal justice system can be a vicious cycle from which it's hard to break free, and for three Chattanooga men, that path has been at times long and winding.
After nearly three months of Silverdale Detention Center inmates using paper forms for filing grievances, medical requests and commissary orders after private jail operator CoreCivic's pulled out from the facility, new electronic kiosks have been installed at the jail.
Maj. William Deming Gray, the vice wing commander for the Civil Air Patrol's Tennessee Wing, died Sunday after falling 30 feet off a cliff in the 8000 block of Laurel Trail on Signal Mountain, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office confirmed.
A female inmate is in critical condition following an assault at the Silverdale Detention Center on Monday evening, according to a news release from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.
Chattanooga police had been called to the home of Mykel Jenkins - shot and killed by police on Friday - multiple times over the past year, Hamilton County court records show.
Nearly seven years after setting a goal to recruit more diverse candidates and following a summer of global protests against racial injustice and police brutality amid a pandemic, the racial demographics of the Chattanooga Police Department's first 2021 cadet academy mostly reflect those of the city's population.
Chattanooga police say they shot a man who had a knife-like weapon during a domestic disturbance call in the 3600 block of Premium Drive near Red Bank on Friday morning.
A federal grand jury indicted a Cleveland, Tennessee, man charged with participating in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C., on 12 charges, according to federal court documents filed last week.
Just over a month after the University of the South's first Black vice chancellor revealed he'd endured repeated attacks and vandalism at his campus home since he became the school's leader last year, a small group of students hurled "the most vile racial epithets" at a visiting lacrosse team during a match over the weekend.
