Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan, PLLC law firm announced it has teamed up with the local Salvation Army chapter to sponsor the Corporate Angel Tree Program this season.  Staff and attorneys sponsored angels throughout the Chattanooga area. The program provides gifts to children and seniors who, due to financial hardship, may not otherwise receive a Christmas gift.  ... (click for more)

The Company Lab has hired Tia Capps as the organization's first communications director. In this new role, Ms. Capps will be responsible for managing press relations, establishing community outreach programs, and promoting CO.LAB, CO.STARTERS, GIGTANK and the Gig City to local and national audiences, among a number of other duties. As the former writer and communications coordinator ... (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)

The United States spends $150 billion each year to fund the badly-maligned Department of Veterans Affairs. There are 7 million veterans who depend on the VA for health care and over 300,000 Americans who are employed at 152 medical centers across the country. It is the second-largest government agency, right behind the Pentagon, and no one is happy with it. A recent story in ... (click for more)