A 264-unit apartment complex planned at Hickory Valley Road and Highway 58 gained approval from the Planning Commission on Monday. The project in the 5300 block of Highway 58 is by Arlington Properties. The site is partway in the city and partway in the county, but it is planned to have the entire tract annexed into the city. (click for more)

Chambers and Partners  has released its 2013 rankings of America’s leading law firms and lawyers, and the list includes a Chattanooga attorney in the real estate section. Ronald I. Feldman is with the Husch Blackwell firm. Chambers and Partners  establishes its rankings by utilizing a team of 134 researchers who conduct thousands of in-depth interviews ... (click for more)

Governor Bill Haslam on Wednesday announced that Deputy to the Governor Claude Ramsey will retire at the end of August to spend more time with his wife, children and grandchildren in Chattanooga. He said the former Hamilton County assessor and then county mayor "has been integral to me on several key initiatives, including civil service reform, economic development efforts, workforce ... (click for more)

An emotional Timothy Westfield on Wednesday told a Criminal Court jury how he was shot and how his friend Bernard Hughes was murdered almost three years ago at the British Woods Apartments. The witness identified Harold Francis "Bam" Butler, III, 33, and John "Cut Throat" Simpson as the gunmen. Simpson pleaded guilty earlier to second-degree murder and is expected to be a ... (click for more)

Today’s news that after a man was shot while coming to the aid of a friend, four were arrested (including two 13-year-olds) for robbery and attempted murder, followed by additional news that one of those arrested had previously pled guilty to aggravated burglary and was given a three-year suspended sentence, is further indication that our system of criminal justice is absolutely ... (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)