DEAR ABBY: I married someone who turned out to be very abusive and controlling. I felt powerless to leave. My children are adults. Their example of marriage was awful. Seeing three of my four kids in similar abusive relationships is painful.

Christopher Tolkien, who played a major role protecting the legacy of his father's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, has died. He was 95.

Thousands of St. Louis-area families were freed from a major financial burden thanks to a charitable effort that is increasingly popular among churches and other organizations trying to help the needy — eliminating medical debt.

On a morning also filled with prayer and song, more than a hundred people gathered at Greater Tucker Missionary Baptist Church to listen to a leading civil rights activist outline what she called the difficult but necessary work for justice.

The 2020 Oscar nominations were announced Monday morning to lots of ... mixed feelings. If you want to catch up on some of the nominated films, here's some information about where you can watch them.

I blame my children for my language problems.

In May 2018, 20 bland utility boxes on Chattanooga's streets were transformed into works of art by professional and high school artists.

If you think your family drama puts the "fun in dysfunction," take comfort in knowing you're far from alone.

Though Christmas 2019 is history, the memories are everlasting.

Over the last eight years, Dave Kinzer has listened to 16,402 songs. Start to finish. All of them.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

The horrors of the Tennessee Children's Home Society — Georgia Tann's adoption mill that flourished in Memphis from 1924 until Tann's death in 1950 — are now well-known.

My late grandmother, Yvonne Nuhrah, was an Avon lady extraordinaire. She perfected what we kids and grandkids dubbed "the Avon walk."

When you're browsing in a bookstore, I'm sure certain titles grab your attention and you read the back cover because you want to know more about what the book is about.

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I relocated to a warmer climate a few years ago, putting us more than 1,000 miles away from my adult children. The kids all seem to think this trip was just for fun and continue to ask me to "come home."

I went to see "Little Women" the other day without a great deal of hope: Not one of the many film adaptations of Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel has been truly faithful to the book. In particular, Gillian Armstrong's 1994 adaption might more accurately have been titled "Little Feminists."

"If only I had a better job."

My husband called me from the road last month. He had just dropped his mother off at her home in Milan, Tennessee, and was headed back to our home in Chattanooga.

Clyde and Mary (Hickman) Vanoer celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on Jan. 14.

Disney is dropping the word "Fox" from the movie studios it acquired as part of last year's $71 billion purchase of Fox's entertainment business, according to published reports.

Nashville songwriters are showing up at the Grammys this year, but not just in the country music categories.

The Tennessee chapter of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests is requesting the Catholic Church's U.S. governing body investigate of the Diocese of Knoxville for allegedly silencing victims of sexual abuse through a practice outlawed by the church nearly 20 years ago.

Performances, programs and events in the Chattanooga region.