The Hamilton County, Catoosa County and Walker County health departments inspect food service establishments twice a year, grading them on a 100-point scale.
Here's a look at the business trends for September in the Chattanooga area.
People who had a way with words in the news last week:
Several local governments and agencies in Tennessee and North Carolina and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have been working together with the National Park Service to keep all of Great Smoky Mountains National Park open during the federal government's partial shutdown, a press release from Sevier County said.
Chattanooga Pride is in full swing, with daily events leading to the annual Pride Festival on Sunday at Ross's Landing.
Suspected homemade pipe bombs were found Wednesday in an abandoned house in Altamont, Tennessee, according to the Grundy County Sheriff's Office.
A woman covered with blood at a Dollar General in Whitfield County allegedly told responding sheriff's deputies that she had stabbed a man, according to a press release from the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office.
New business licenses issued Sept. 22-26, as provided by the Hamilton County Clerk's Office:
A 60-year-old woman is dead after police said she sideswiped a semitruck and then struck a van head-on in the 3600 block of Amnicola Highway on Tuesday afternoon.
Two male teenagers were arrested Tuesday and were awaiting extradition to Georgia after the deadly shooting of a woman at a party in Catoosa County, according to Sheriff Gary Sisk.
