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Tennessee governor prepared to send National Guard to D.C. for police takeover
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday he is ready to deploy National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump's federal takeover of the police force there.
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Brian Joyce, former radio host, charged with harassment
Brian Joyce, a former morning talk show personality and co-owner of the now-closed Blue Light bar, was arrested and faces a harassment charge.
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Chattanooga, Hamilton County officials say they’ll ask state about interstate flooding
Tuesday's deadly flash flooding, which closed Interstate 24 for hours Tuesday night and left a new section of highway under water, has raised questions about whether the $161 million project was built with adequate protection against inundation.
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Home builders, residents debate changes to Plan Hamilton
There was a familiar scene at the Hamilton County Courthouse on Wednesday morning.
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Soddy-Daisy board denies zoning variances for asphalt plant
The Soddy-Daisy Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday denied property owner James Thomas' requests for distance variances to put an asphalt mixing plant in a residential area near Ivy Academy, North Chickamauga Creek Gorge State Park and Tennessee Highway 27.
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‘It happened fast’: Fort Oglethorpe residents return to flood-damaged apartments
Residents of The Crossings returned to their homes Wednesday around noon to bicycles, inflatable unicorns and Walmart buggies strewn about the grass and parking lot. The floodwater had receded, and people were assessing the damage done.
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Chattanooga man to serve 15 years for manslaughter
A Chattanooga man pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter nearly one year after a jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict during his trial.
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GPS creates faculty support fund from alumna’s gift
Girls Preparatory School has created a new fund to support its faculty after it received a multimillion dollar gift from an alumna.
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Tracking sea turtles is a long, slow process that just might keep them alive
In the middle of a steamy July night on the Wassaw Island beach, near Savannah, Georgia, volunteer Gabi Steinbach plunged her arm shoulder-deep in the sand to reach a loggerhead sea turtle nest that hatched five days before.
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Downtown Chattanooga roads closing this week for UTC move-in
Several roads and some parking spaces will be closed in the downtown area as thousands of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga students move into their dorms Wednesday and Thursday.
