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Toni Says: My Medicare Advantage HMO isn’t accepted by the cancer center. What do I do?
I moved to Houston from Little Rock, Arkansas, in May and discovered your Medicare article in the local newspaper. I enrolled in Medicare Advantage…

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Alabama officials to ask federal government for two-year delay on food assistance error rate penalty
Alabama officials asked the federal government to extend a two-year reprieve from changes to a food assistance program that could cost the state more…

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Hamilton County early voting surges past recent midterm cycles
Numbers from the first week of early voting in Hamilton County are nearly double the vote counts at the same point in 2022 and…

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Why Erlanger turned to Prisma after going private
Three years ago this month, Erlanger leaders gathered amid blue and gold balloons to celebrate what they hoped would secure the health system's future.

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Facing state scrutiny, Memphis schools intensify efforts to reduce chronic absenteeism
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Chattanooga man receives 15 years over child sexual abuse images
A federal judge sentenced a Chattanooga man with mental health conditions who pleaded guilty to receiving child sexual abuse images to 15 years in…

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Civil rights groups renew legal challenge to Tennessee law making unauthorized immigration a state crime
The ACLU and National Immigration Law Center have renewed their challenge to a Tennessee law making unauthorized immigration a state crime after a federal…

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Miss G, Chattanooga restaurant owner, rebuilds her life south of the border
VERACRUZ, México -- Before the late May sun rose on the outskirts of the city of Veracruz, Guillermina Solano-Chala had set up her humble…

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Two traffic stops, two very different outcomes for deported Chattanooga restaurant owner, Miss G
In 2018, during the first administration of President Donald Trump, Chattanooga resident Guillermina Solano-Chala caused a small fender bender in East Ridge.
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Local History: The Tivoli’s first grand opening made the movies a spectacle
Chattanooga's citizens are eagerly awaiting the reopening of the Tivoli Theatre. Soon the theater will be joined by the spectacularly redesigned Fowler Bros. building…
