Chris Vass

Over nearly 60 years, the Council for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services has evolved from its modest beginning in a nondescript brick storefront on East Fourth Street into an addiction treatment provider that its small group of founders would not recognize today.

As a medical student at the University of Kentucky in the early 1970s, Dr. Susan McGuire was convinced of one thing — under no circumstances would she pursue psychiatry as her specialty.

Just as our newsroom is figuring out the strange new rhythm of telling the stories of our community facing coronavirus - a microscopic menace whose devastating effects have upended life as we know it - we took another body blow.

Shelter in place. Social distancing. Economic fallout. Virus testing vs. antibody testing.

Your local ink-in-the-blood journalists putting out a daily newspaper now spend some of our day looking at "big data" — the rich information that can be mined from millions of reader clicks.

Visitors descending on the remote Nevada desert for "Storm Area 51" are from Earth, not outer space.

Nearly 50 Democratic lawmakers called for a watchdog investigation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday after the agency confirmed it had been force-feeding immigrant detainees on a hunger strike.

China reported economic growth sank to a post-global crisis low as finance officials launched a media blitz Friday to shore up confidence in its sagging stock market.

Rhonda, we re-elected you. Make us proud. Get the ball and run with it. We are counting on you.

Prepare for Election Day by going to www.timesfreepress.com/voterguide for the latest news and opinion about Amendment 1 and other key issues and candidates on the ballot.

WASHINGTON -- The value of American foreign policy conducted by majority vote -- which might have resulted in a Nazi-occupied London -- is once again evident.

WASHINGTON -- Here is what officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health have been telling us: America has some Ebola infections (and is likely to see more), but America does not have an Ebola outbreak, which is extremely unlikely in a health system capable of basic public health measures.

Infant mortality is a critical problem in our community. In fact, Hamilton County has a higher infant mortality rate than many underdeveloped countries. The Infant Mortality Public Awareness Campaign for Tennessee (IMPACT), a group of Girls Inc. teenagers whose main focus is to reduce Tennessee's infant mortality rate, is working to create awareness about the problem and advocate for healthy prenatal behaviors in our peers.

NASHVILLE - The State Fire Marshal's Office is asking Tennesseans to keep safety in mind as they say goodbye to 2013 and usher in the New Year tonight and Wednesday morning.

Sunday events

NASHVILLE -- Gov. Bill Haslam announced Tuesday the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will reopen Wednesday for five days under an agreement with the National Park Service.

• Who: Bradley Birzer

NASHVILLE - Fellow Democrats chanted "Run Sara, run!" during the party's annual fundraiser over the weekend in support of former Tennessee Regulatory Authority Chairman Sara Kyle, who is weighing a challenge to Republican Gov. Bill Haslam in 2014.