The first ever Black Creek Mountain 5K and Jingle Bell Fun Run was held on Saturday. The races were in conjunction with Black Creek’s “Day of Giving” and will become an annual holiday event at the residential community. The Day of Giving also featured a holiday home tour, which highlighted five homes throughout the community, as well as the clubhouse and sales center.  Proceeds ... (click for more)

Tennessee is known as the Volunteer State, so it’s in that same spirit that Movoto Real Estate is volunteering Tennessee as the next state to be featured in our ongoing series uncovering the best places in the country to live. We’ve previously discovered the best places in North Carolina, we have shown you the top 10 places in Missouri, we’ve even looked at some of the hardest-working ... (click for more)

A Chickamauga, Ga., man discharged a firearm inside his home early Saturday morning and later had to be flushed out with the use of OC gas, Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said. The Walker County Sheriff's Office Special Operations Group (SOG) was called to a residence at 19B 466 Walker Hollow Road. Officers responded to a call at approximately 2:20 a.m. Upon arrival, ... (click for more)

An early morning police chase ended when a young Georgia man crashed into a news vehicle and a concrete picnic table, went through a chain link fence, and finally hit a metal gate in the News Channel 12 parking lot. According to police, 19-year-old Sawyer Clanton had tried to shoplift $1501.98 worth of merchandise from the Walmart on Cummings Highway. He tried to get a shopping ... (click for more)

On Monday 12/16, the call of a CPR in progress came out at a local high rise apartment building. I was literally around the corner when the call came out.  The dispatcher was still dispatching the call when I was getting out of my police car at the scene. As it was being dispatched, the dispatcher said the patient was a 9-day-old infant. When the elevator doors opened ... (click for more)

When the Osgood Intermediate School in King’s Park, N.Y., was preparing for this year’s Christmas concert, it wasn’t exactly the Three Wise Men who made the decision they should change the words to a song rather than offend anybody. Nope, it was school superintendent Susan Agruso, principal Rudy Massimo, and the choir director who decreed this is an age of political correctness, ... (click for more)