Girls Inc of Chattanooga will present the 2014 Unbought and Unbossed honorees at a reception held in their honor, on Thursday, from 5:30-7 p.m. at Nova Copy Chattanooga, 1936 Central Ave.,Chattanooga, Tn. 37408.  Named for the phrase coined by Congressmember Shirley Chisholm, the awards honor Hamilton County women who through their career and/or community service have improved ... (click for more)

The Holiday Starlight Parade will be held on Dec. 14 at 6 p.m. and Volkswagen Chattanooga will serve as presenting sponsor. The event is produced by Chattanooga Presents in cooperation with the city’s Youth and Family Department.  The parade route will follow Market Street from M.L.King to 3rd Street before disbanding at Broad.  The review stand, emceed by Channel 3 ... (click for more)

Two people were shot at a party on Bishop Drive on Saturday night. At 11:29 p.m., Chattanooga Police officers were dispatched to a local hospital after a man arrived by personal vehicle with a gunshot wound. Tyler McCrary, 19, said he was at a party at 7627 Bishop Dr. when a unknown person started shooting. McCrary suffered a single gunshot wound to the leg. ... (click for more)

The sudden retirement of Cleveland Police Chief Wes Snyder Friday came after the recent discovery of a video showing him meeting with the director of Main Street Cleveland at a storage unit. A police report said items found in the unit at Rhodes Climate Controlled Storage on Old Tasso Road included baby wipes, paper towels, a mirror, a hair brush and a bottle of brandy. It also ... (click for more)

This situation with Police Chief Snyder’s alleged affair reminds me of a story my dad once told me when he was in the military. One day a woman came running to his commanding officer screaming that she caught her husband, who was one of this commanding officer’s soldiers, cheating on her with another woman. The woman demanded that the commander make an example of this man and dishonorably ... (click for more)

Allow me to write very little today so that Nelson Mandela might say a lot. “Madiba,” as he was lovingly called by a nation of blacks and whites who equally adored him, died on Friday after becoming one of the greatest heroes the world has ever known. I have tried to studiously watch his every move for over the last 20 years and can say that I have loved his mantra and his teachings ... (click for more)