Eddie Pierce picked up papers on Friday for the at-large seat now held by Ruth Jeno on the Red Bank City Commission. Ms. Jeno said she does not plan to run again. The District 2 and District 3 seats in Red Bank are also up for grabs in the Nov. 6 voting. Mayor Monty Millard represents Distrist 2 and Ken Welch District 3. Mr. Welch was named to fill a vacancy created when Vice ... (click for more)

East Ridge criminal investigators on Friday filed charges against the 13-year-old female student who lied to investigators about being sexually assaulted at East Ridge Middle School. Investigators have charged the teenager with filling a false police report through Hamilton County Juvenile Court. Investigators said they have determined that all allegations were unfounded. ... (click for more)

East Ridge staff and Council discussed making all East Ridge property tobacco free.  The city manager was instructed to have an ordinance drafted to vote on at the next meeting on May 24. Full disclosed, I am a cigarette smoker, but even if I wasn’t I would think that this decision is a bit extreme.  There are already policies in place that do not allow smoking in city ... (click for more)

There was a lot of cheering -- and rightly so -- when researchers proved this week that a paralyzed person, with a small sensor the size of a baby aspirin implanted in the cortex of their brain, could cause a nearby robot to do a simple task. They showed that a lady who had been paralyzed from the neck down for 15 years could literally cause her brain impulses to trigger a robot's ... (click for more)

GPS coach Susan Crownover isn't one who relaxes very often when one of her teams is playing. It doesn't matter if  it's basketball or softball, Crownover is all about competing with 100 percent effort and relaxing is just something that comes after the fact when the big game is over. The veteran leader got a chance to kick back and take it easy Thursday afternoon at T.A. ... (click for more)

Three generations of Notre Dame tennis and three generations of championship play. Chris Brown (three-time state champion) and Laura Dupont carried the Notre Dame banner in the early 1960s and passed it on to Debbie Herring who won a state singles title in 1985 to guide the Irish to a state runner-up finish in the team standings. The 2012 girls team has won the school's ... (click for more)