Rosana Hughes covers crime, courts, breaking news and other generally terrible things for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Originally from South Georgia, she's lived full time in the Chattanooga area since 2014 while finishing up her bachelors degree in journalism. When not nose deep in case files or court documents, you can find her binge watching some TV show with her cat and two pups. Find her on Twitter @HughesRosana.
Senior Judge Don Ash on Tuesday dismissed two charges against activists Marie Mott and Cameron Williams, leaders of last summer's racial injustice protests in Chattanooga, and sent their remaining charges to the grand jury.
by Rosana HughesOutgoing Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke attributes a drop in the city's gang violence under his tenure to the Violence Reduction Initiative, his flagship program, rolled out in March 2014 to fight gang violence in a new way.
by Rosana HughesChattanooga police arrested a man Wednesday for a March 14 shooting in College Hill Courts that left one man injured.
by Rosana HughesChattanooga police and the Hamilton County District Attorney's Office are asking the public for help in solving two December shootings that left two senior citizens dead.
by Rosana HughesA Chattanooga woman was arrested Friday in connection with a March 31 shooting that left two women injured.
by Rosana HughesA man shot and killed the mother of his two children as they sat beside her at the edge of their bed just after midnight on Good Friday, according to Hamilton County court records.
by Rosana HughesA federal magistrate judge denied this week Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Detective Blake Kilpatrick's request to put a lawsuit on hold as the U.S. Department of Justice investigates the detective for a 2018 arrest in which a viral video showed him punching and kicking a handcuffed Black man.
by Rosana HughesAfter a Saturday fire damaged three floors of Patten Towers and left the apartment building condemned until repairs are made, all 184 residents have been placed in temporary shelters as of Thursday.
by Rosana HughesFormer Chattanooga police Sgt. Jonathan Watkins was demoted earlier this year after getting on the dispatch radio to call Rossville, Georgia, police "too chicken" to handle what Watkins believed was a burglary in progress within Chattanooga city limits last year.
by Rosana HughesJoseph Padilla of Cleveland, Tennessee, pleaded not guilty in federal court Tuesday to 12 charges related to his actions during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C.
by Rosana HughesLongtime Chattanooga police Sgt. Scott Avila was fired recently after an internal investigation concluded that, while off duty, he pointed a gun multiple times at another man in a road rage incident last year and then lied to investigators.
by Rosana HughesThe criminal justice system can be a vicious cycle from which it's hard to break free, and for three Chattanooga men, that path has been at times long and winding.
by Rosana HughesAfter nearly three months of Silverdale Detention Center inmates using paper forms for filing grievances, medical requests and commissary orders after private jail operator CoreCivic's pulled out from the facility, new electronic kiosks have been installed at the jail.
by Rosana HughesMaj. William Deming Gray, the vice wing commander for the Civil Air Patrol's Tennessee Wing, died Sunday after falling 30 feet off a cliff in the 8000 block of Laurel Trail on Signal Mountain, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office confirmed.
by Rosana HughesA female inmate is in critical condition following an assault at the Silverdale Detention Center on Monday evening, according to a news release from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.
by Rosana HughesChattanooga police had been called to the home of Mykel Jenkins — shot and killed by police on Friday — multiple times over the past year, Hamilton County court records show.
by Rosana HughesNearly seven years after setting a goal to recruit more diverse candidates and following a summer of global protests against racial injustice and police brutality amid a pandemic, the racial demographics of the Chattanooga Police Department's first 2021 cadet academy mostly reflect those of the city's population.
by Rosana HughesChattanooga police say they shot a man who had a knife-like weapon during a domestic disturbance call in the 3600 block of Premium Drive near Red Bank on Friday morning.
by Rosana HughesA federal grand jury indicted a Cleveland, Tennessee, man charged with participating in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C., on 12 charges, according to federal court documents filed last week.
by Rosana HughesJust over a month after the University of the South's first Black vice chancellor revealed he'd endured repeated attacks and vandalism at his campus home since he became the school's leader last year, a small group of students hurled "the most vile racial epithets" at a visiting lacrosse team during a match over the weekend.
by Rosana Hughes