Decosimo, a Top 100 accounting and business advisory firm, is providing support as the lead sponsor for the 3rd Annual Private Equity Operations and Compliance Summit hosted by the Financial Research Associates June 24-25 at New York City’s Princeton Club. Principal Karl J. Jordan, CPA, CGMA will chair the two-day conference focused on private equity financial matters.  ... (click for more)

Timothy L. Mickel, a partner in the Chattanooga law firm of Evans Harrison Hackett PLLC, has been elected to serve as president of the Justices Ray L. Brock Jr. - Robert E. Cooper American Inn of Court for the 2013 to 2014 term.  Modeled after the traditional English Inns of Courts, the local Inn is comprised of more than 100 lawyers and judges.  The purpose of the Inn ... (click for more)

A man was shot Monday night after he told police he was trying to help his friend who was surrounded by four young black males.   The suspects were taken into custody.   At 9:55 p.m., Chattanooga Police officers responded to 2009 Huff Place on a burglary in progress. Officers spoke with Santos Morales.  ... (click for more)

Doctors’ best efforts couldn't save 35-year-old Kima Evans’ life after he was ambushed and shot repeatedly on Jan. 13, 2012, prosecutors said Tuesday in Hamilton County Criminal Court.   But Evans hung on long enough to identify his killer, assistant district attorney Jason Demastus said.   The result, he said: Kaylon Sebron Bailey, 35, is on trial ... (click for more)

The public needs to intervene on the absolutely absurd Wilson Air Waste (WWW) at the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport.  What this all comes down to is our elected officials have appointed board members to oversee the budget and decision making at the airport, and they clearly do not respect public resources.   Contrary to the Airport Authority CEO’s statement ... (click for more)

In the Broadway play, “The Civil War,” there is an emotional song called “Tell My Father,” the words that a dying Union soldier on a distant battlefield asked to be delivered when the other troops got back home. The reason Lt. Col. Mark Weber sang that very song with his oldest son Matt was because the highly-decorated officer was fighting Stage IV intestinal cancer at the ... (click for more)