A steel service center specializing in cut pieces, Southern Tool Steel, has promoted Natasha Lusk to accounts payable assistant manager.  Ms. Lusk will be responsible for maintaining accurate reconcilements of accounts as well as expediting credit requests from vendors. “Natasha’s upbeat attitude and meticulous attention to detail has made her invaluable to our company,” ... (click for more)

Jeremy Bordelon of Chattanooga has filed a class action lawsuit against American Honda Motor Company, Inc.  for manufacturing and selling vehicles with allegedly defective window mechanisms.  The complaint charges that the Honda window defect poses a safety hazard to drivers and passengers nationwide, Mark P. Chalos of the Nashville office of the national plaintiffs’ law ... (click for more)

Circuit Court Judge Jeff Hollingsworth on Friday afternoon ruled that the effort to recall Mayor Ron Littlefield was invalid and he canceled a planned special mayoral election in August to replace him. He said the city had not properly enacted the recall provision in its charter and said, even if it had, the city did not have power to set up a two-step recall provision instead ... (click for more)

Twelve attorneys have applied for an interim appointment as judge in General Sessions Court. The deadline was noon today. Attorneys Valerie Epstein and Ron Powers were the latest to enter their names.  David Norton and Mike Acuff applied on Thursday. Others to apply are attorneys Bryan Hoss, Lloyd Stanley, Gary Starnes, Rob Philyaw and Patricia ... (click for more)

Dear Roy,   I am flattered that you and I think a lot alike and that we both use the same 'Rule Book.'  I also agree with you that it is healthy to offer differing opinions.  However, I disagree with you on the issue of discretionary spending.   I did not see you at the Hamilton County Pachyderm Club meeting on Monday.  Sorry that I did not see you ... (click for more)

Eva Milligan, just one of very many across the state who are fed up with Tennessee’s ridiculous auto emissions effort, wrote a letter to Chattanoogan.com last week that painfully told how she had spent over $1,000 to get her 1997 Ford Ranger through the scam and how she was still unsuccessful. She also pointed out such testing is fruitless – except to government coffers – and ... (click for more)