Activist and Chattanooga City Council candidate Marie Mott, a leader of the local George Floyd protest movement, took to Facebook on Friday morning to admit to removing the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office flag from in front of the downtown jail and then burning it during a protest Thursday evening.

A second arrest has been made and a third suspect in a June 27 fatal shooting that left a Franklin County, Tennessee, man dead remains at-large, according to the sheriff's office there.

Saturday evening's Chattanooga Unite: Healing and Uniting on the River — now set for the Tennessee Riverpark — is the first big music event in Hamilton County since the coronavirus pandemic began shutting down the country in March.

Fredrik Ackander is a junior soccer player at Dalton State College. The 2019 conference soccer scholar-athlete of the year is from Vasteras, Sweden. He first came to the United States three years ago and played his first two seasons at Andrew College in southwest Georgia before transferring to Dalton.

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High 93, heat index 100, hot and very muggy today. A few spotty showers popping up. Saturday sunny and hot with less humidity.

Reginald Arrington Jr., the man struck repeatedly by Hamilton County Sheriff's Office deputies in May, sustained several injuries as a result, as well as lung and kidney damage from contracting COVID-19 while incarcerated for four weeks at the Silverdale Detention Center, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

The Hamilton County Commission will consider a resolution next week to set aside $900,000 of taxpayer money to bring back discretionary funds for each commissioner to hand out to causes they see as worthy.

Hamilton County has a number of road closures, shifts and detours planned as crews work on various construction projects in the area.

The city of Chattanooga will continue testing local wastewater for the prevalence of COVID-19 after participating in a study in May that showed thousands more cases of the virus in the community than what was reported by local health officials.

On a rainy Sunday afternoon in October 1950, a charismatic, 31-year-old Christian minister named Billy Graham arrived in Chattanooga to speak at a packed Engel Stadium.

Two months after Mike "Boogie" Gilbert lost his teeth in the storm, the community he's known all his life came together to get him a new set.

Not everyone can work from home, and the Times Free Press is recognizing the essential workers who are on the job every day. From grocery stores and fire stations to construction sites and hospitals, our friends and neighbors are making sure the work gets done.

Many Chattanooga area day camps are now in operation, with the majority that chose to open amid the COVID-19 pandemic starting their programs in late June or early July.

In a last-minute compromise, Tennessee's State Capitol Commission on Thursday recommended moving the bust of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state Capitol to the state museum, but only if the busts of two Union admirals are moved, too.

Officials at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga have decided to cancel the school's rescheduled Spring 2020 graduation due to rising numbers of COVID-19 cases in Tennesee and in Hamilton County, according to a news release.

The Times Free Press sat down with Paul Hendricks, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., a health officer with the Hamilton County Health Department, to answer some questions about the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, March 10, 2020.

One person died and two others were injured after a crash on Highway 58, according to a news release from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.

A magnitude 2.1 earthquake struck in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, Wednesday around 7 p.m. in a residential area north of Battlefield Parkway, according to a preliminary report from the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Hot and muggy again today with a chance of scattered storms this afternoon, high 90. Friday will be a repeat of the weather today.

Signs are going up and business owners are bracing for awkward conversations with customers who may not want to wear masks under an executive order that requires face coverings in most public places in Hamilton County beginning Friday.

Red Bank city commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to deny a special exceptions permit to ImmunoTek Bio Centers, which planned to open a blood plasma collection facility at the former Save a Lot grocery site on Dayton Boulevard.