MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Baylor’s Lady Red Raiders beat St. Benedict on Friday to earn a spot in the Division II-AA state softball championship game. Baylor (33-7) rode the four-hit pitching of Sarah Moore and an 11-hit attack – three different players each had two hits – to a 7-2 win over St. Benedict at the Starplex softball complex. The Lady Raiders will play Pope John ... (click for more)

The Chattanooga Lookouts did not wait to produce walk-off magic Thursday night. Although the Lookouts were out hit by Pensacola 14-to-5, Chattanooga made the most of their hits scoring five runs. After winning their last two games thanks in large part to ninth-inning wild pitches, the Lookouts began their second five-game series with the Pensacola Blue Wahoos in as many weeks ... (click for more)

Police have arrested an 18-year-old, four 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old in connection with several back-to-back robberies. At approximately 1:40 p.m. on Thursday, four suspects were interrupted by the homeowner during a burglary at 1069 Hurricane Creek Dr. The suspects then carjacked the victim’s 2001 Chevy truck. At 11 p.m., the suspects utilized the stolen Chevy and went ... (click for more)

The head of BB&T's Chattanooga commercial banking operations has been charged by federal authorities with making fraudulent loans. Tracy Brown is set to plead guilty to bank fraud on June 4. Authorities said Brown "appropriated the identities of three customers and took out fraudulent loans in their names. In October 2012, a customer of BB&T, D.M., went to the Ooltewah ... (click for more)

We do not have to pander to those in our country who were not invited and made their way here on their own. They are here against our laws that are already on the books which are not enforced.  They do not have negotiation rights to dictate to the United States government nor does our government have the right to pick and choose which laws are to be enforced or ignored so ... (click for more)

I am still wincing over the fact a horrendous bill passed in the state legislature that would make whistle-blowers into criminals would have actually gone into law had it not been for Governor Bill Haslam’s eleventh-hour veto. Called the “Ag-Gag bill,” similar efforts in other states have also soured because it is no more than a Catch-22 trick to protect those who abuse animals, ... (click for more)