Highlighted by technical falls from Justin Lampe (165) and Jared Johnson (285), the Chattanooga wrestling team defeated visiting Davidson, 38-3, Friday at Maclellan Gym in a Southern Conference match.   The Mocs (10-5, 5-0) are now 34-1 in SoCon matches, including 18 straight wins, in the five seasons under head coach Heath Eslinger. The Mocs are 23-0 in the ... (click for more)

FRANKLIN – The Hixson Wildcats have finished third in the TSSAA Class A-AA State Duals wrestling tournament for the past four years, but they won’t have to worry about that monkey any longer as they won two matches here at the Williamson County Agricultural Expo Center Friday night and will face defending champ Pigeon Forge for the top prize Saturday night. The Wildcats, improving ... (click for more)

Chance Loftis is set to be freed from jail on Monday after a Criminal Court jury on Friday afternoon found him guilty of only a minor charge. Instead of murder in the death of 46-year-old Donald Rogers, the jury in the courtroom of Judge Don Poole found him guilty of the lesser charge of reckless endangerment. He was found not guilty of aggravated animal cruelty in the beating ... (click for more)

David M. Stern, MD, executive dean of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine at UT Health Science Center (UTHSC), and Kevin Spiegel, president and CEO for Erlanger Health System, announced that  David Seaberg, MD, will be stepping down from the joint positions of dean of the UT College of Medicine, Chattanooga, and senior vice president of the Erlanger Health System. ... (click for more)

Tennessee has a problem.  What is the value of saving the lives of 1,000 Tennesseans each year? That is exactly what can be expected if 176,000 Tennesseans gain health insurance through Insure Tennessee. A New England Journal of Medicine study showed that expansion of Medicaid was associated with a 6% reduction in yearly mortality for people in the 34-65 age group. Statistically, ... (click for more)

I attended my fifth funeral in the month of January the other day and, while I wish a lot of my friends would hang around a little longer, I was amused by the conversation in the pew before the service began. The question was “ … then what do you do with the ashes?” More and more people are being cremated and asking their loved ones to scatter their ashes -- more properly called ... (click for more)