Sunday Morning Rapture, a film by Bishop William Sheals and End Touch Movies, will be aired at the Union Hill Baptist Church, at 1800 North Chamberlain Ave., as part of Dinner and a Movie night, Saturday, June 29.   Dinner will be served beginning at 5:30 and the movie will begin at 7:15 p.m. with Dr. Sheals, the films executive producer and director, on hand to introduce ... (click for more)

At the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church’s 2013 Annual Conference, Tennessee Wesleyan College’s Dr. William McDonald was honored with the Francis Asbury Award for Fostering Ministries in Higher Education. Bishop Francis Asbury encouraged United Methodists to build schools in locations central to churches so that young adults and youth would have more opportunities ... (click for more)

Attorneys were arguing before the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati this morning on whether former Sheriff Billy Long should get a further reduction in his sentence. He was initially sentenced by Federal Judge Sandy Mattice to serve 168 months in federal prison after his conviction on a variety of charges related to his involvement with Eugene Overstreet. That ... (click for more)

Police said a Highland Park woman helped crack a mystery about a rash of recent gasoline thefts involving the cutting of expensive gas lines. Thomas Bouch was arrested after Bridgitte Brody told of looking out a window of her house last Thursday and seeing a white male standing by a 24-seat van at Tennessee Temple University. She said the man had a rubber tube near ... (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)

I'm betting the chances are good you overlooked a story in Monday's editions of the Chattanooga Times Free Press about our newest heroes in Franklin County. I say they are our heroes because the proud little county that stretches from Sewanee to Tullahoma is on the very brink of running its meth dealers far away from the land Davy Crockett once trod. Because our state legislature ... (click for more)