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Fall-themed drinks to cozy up with at Chattanooga coffee shops

There's a new rhythm to the days in Chattanooga: chilly enough in the mornings to cradle a hot mug, warm enough by afternoon to switch to an iced pumpkin chai.

By Dasia Williams October 11, 2025

Staff Photo by Dasia Williams / One of Trail Town Coffee's fall drinks is a pumpkin pie dirty chai.

First Things First: How families turn exposure into opportunity

Here's what my friend told me over coffee recently: "They have so many opportunities," he said about the teens he mentors.

By Lauren Hall / First Things First October 11, 2025

How a family-owned costume shop is keeping tariffs from making Halloween a nightmare

A family that runs two costume stores in Chicago is putting a creative twist on Halloween this year due to tariffs on Chinese imports.

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO / AP Retail Writer October 11, 2025

Owner Courtland Hickey holds a Pokemon costume from 2024, left, and one from this year, right, at Chicago Costume, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Dear Abby: Longtime couple want a mediator to decide who’s right

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been married 56 years. For the past year or so, we quarrel about everything — major issues and minor, insignificant things.

By Jeanne Phillips October 11, 2025

Remember When? The Night Deposit was hopping on Brainerd Road

During the disco era in the late 1970s, The Night Deposit at 3617 Brainerd Road was one of the city's top nightclubs.

By Mark Kennedy October 10, 2025

Contributed photo from ChattanoogaHistory.com / In the late 1970s, the 3600 block of Brainerd Road was a center for nightlife and retailing. The Night Deposit disco attracted nationally known acts such as Gregg Allman and Alabama.

Hungarian master of absurdist excess László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of "apocalyptic terror."

By KOSTYA MANENKOV, JILL LAWLESS and MIKE CORDER / Associated Press October 10, 2025

FILE - Hungary's Laszlo Krasznahorkai poses for photographers in London, Tuesday, May 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Dear Abby: Annual birthday celebration has become burdensome

DEAR ABBY: Both my parents had birthdays days apart and near a holiday.

By Jeanne Phillips October 9, 2025

Michigan haunted house teaches actors to ‘scare the pee out of’ guests

Grotesque makeup, menacing props and intimidating costumes are just one part of a Michigan haunted house's 25-year-old formula to terrify guests.

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER / Associated Press October 9, 2025

Alan Tucker poses for a portrait at the Erebus Haunted House, Oct. 4, 2025, in Pontiac, Mich. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Dear Abby: Victim of sexual abuse is haunted decades later

DEAR ABBY: I am a victim of childhood sexual assault. I'm 52, and memories that I have repressed for so many years are coming back to haunt me.