Navigating Thru Change, a jobs and career support group sponsored by First Baptist Church of Fort Oglethorpe, welcomes Pat Harrington as a special guest speaker this week. Ms. Harrington will be walking the group through how to use Linked In, the business social networking site, for looking for jobs and building a brand online. The session will start at 6:30 p.m. and ... (click for more)

"What Repentance Looks Like" will be the topic of Dr. Steven Wright on Sunday, at 11 a.m. at Signal Mountain Baptist Church, 939 Ridgeway Ave. His text will be Psalm 51:1-17. Sunday School is at 9:30 a.m. The 100th birthday celebration of Ila McInturff will be at the church on Saturday, from 2-4 p.m. in the Christian Life Center. (click for more)

The Chattanooga Housing Authority voted unanimously in a Tuesday morning board meeting to accept the City of Chattanooga's bid for the Harriet Tubman housing project property. The city's bid was for $2.6 million. Instead of renovating the housing, the city plans to make the area a light industrial zone in order to bring in jobs.  Commissioner Jim Steffes said, "East ... (click for more)

Prosecutor Cameron Williams said the main witness against the man charged with killing Warren Ransom and dumping his body by Hooker Road is the defendant's sister. He told General Sessions Court Judge David Bales that the sister has not gotten threats, but is under pressure from family members. The state was ready to go forward with a preliminary hearing on Tuesday morning, ... (click for more)

How does the city of Chattanooga really think it saves money by only picking the brush when someone calls 311. I called the other day and they came and picked up my brush and passed 10 other piles of brush in my area, some of which were only a few doors down from my house. Now they will have to come back 10 more times as people call in and some will not call so those piles will ... (click for more)

Taylor Smith’s 13 th birthday was last Thursday and a big celebration was held. Many hundreds sent gifts from every direction and, just like she really wanted, each was the exact same thing. Needless to say, her spirit soared, which was the whole idea to begin with anyway. Earlier this year, during the first week of January to be exact, Taylor Scout Smith, age 12 of Johnson ... (click for more)