The Soundtrack of America is Made in Tennessee and you can hear great music at festivals like Tina Turner Heritage Days, Americana Music Festival & Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion. Here’s a look at other festivals and fall-themed activities going on across the state this week. For a complete list of events, visit ... (click for more)

Photography is sometimes referred to as a “hobby of a lifetime,” and in the case of Donna Bourdon, that bit of popular wisdom has certainly borne out. The Chattanooga-based photographer’s love of capturing images began when she was nine years old. “My parents gave me my first ‘Brownie’ camera, and I never looked back,” Ms. Bourdon says, adding that she upgraded to her father’s ... (click for more)

Corey Reynolds, 23, was shot early Sunday morning, and he wound up in jail over the same incident. He was charged with aggravated domestic assault and filing a false report.    The Chattanooga Police responded at 1:49 a.m. to a person shot who arrived at a local hospital.   Reynolds arrived at the hospital in a personally owned vehicle.   His ... (click for more)

An Ooltewah man was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison for the murder of his son-in-law. Glen Donaldson, 57, will have to serve the time at 100 percent under state law. A jury on May 25 found him guilty of second-degree murder in the Dec. 29, 2016, slaying of 39-year-old Adam Levi.  Judge Don Poole called it "a sad, sad case," but he said the evidence showed ... (click for more)

I see now Governor Bredesen is running ads criticizing Rep. Blackburn for her support of the opioid bill. I do not know enough about opioids to offer an educated opinion but I am pretty good in math. When the bill came up for a vote every Democrat in the House and Senate voted for approval. In addition, Eric Holder's DOJ signed off on it. Obama's DEA signed off on it and the President ... (click for more)

The word ‘ignobel’ is rarely used because only a few among us know that it means "characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness." About 30 years ago, a glorious group of great scholars took a literary hatchet to form the word into ‘ig nobel’ so it could be placed in the dictionary as a term that means “a satirical social criticism that identifies absurd research.” Think of ... (click for more)