The 73rd Women's Day Service at Second Missionary Baptist Church, 2305 E. Third St., will be on  Sunday . Two services featuring established, inspirational guest speakers are scheduled.  The  8 a.m.  speaker is Minister Aaliyah K. Hakeem, Olivet Baptist Church. Bringing the  11 a.m.   message is Rev. Dr. Deborah M. Martin, ... (click for more)

Jones Memorial United Methodist Church, 4131 Ringgold Road in East Ridge, will host  their first Service & Honor Sunday on Sept. 30.  At the 10:30 a.m. Worship Celebration, the church will honor guests: first responders, educators, civil servants, military, medical providers and community workers.  A dinner will follow.  The guest speaker, a retired ... (click for more)

The government is asking that former Pilot Travel Centers president Mark Hazelwood be sentenced to between 168-210 months for his part in a fraud against truckers. The government is also asking that Hazelwood be ordered to pay a $750,000 fine. It was noted that all restitution has been made by Pilot to the tune of some $100 million. Attorney Brad Henry, of Knoxville and New ... (click for more)

The mother of a 15-year-old boy who was killed by his father said Michael McElrath had been acting "manic" in the days leading up to the tragic incident in Hixson on Aug. 18. Judge Alex McVeigh bound a charge of criminal homicide against McElrath, a former jail officer, to the Grand Jury. He is charged in the death of Dylan McElrath, who was a sophomore at Hixson High School. ... (click for more)

Arming teachers with guns in the classroom, as Bill Lee proposes, would be the single most dangerous thing to happen to students in Tennessee history. Students and teachers in close proximity to loaded firearms daily? Across this state, in middle schools alone, there are probably hundreds of student/teacher conflicts a day. What if a student got hold of gun in a struggle with ... (click for more)

It’s easy for me to say that I either know, or know about, almost every person running in November for the state legislature. Yet when I describe Lemon Williams as the most exciting of the bunch, that’s because he's the only guy I had never heard of when he picked up his qualifying papers. He just turned out the best political aspirant I have had a conversation with in the last ... (click for more)