FOOTBALL   FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Baylor at Pope John Paul II Boyd-Buchanan at Notre Dame Bradley at Cleveland Brainerd at Sweetwater Central at East Hamilton CAK at Chattanooga Christian Copper Basin at Sale Creek Concord Christian at Grace Hixson at Sequoyah Howard at Anderson Co. Whitwell at Lookout Valley ... (click for more)

Dalton State had a solid start to the season concluding with a 3rd place finish in the Keiser Cup at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. on Tuesday. The Lady Roadrunners posted a final round number of (+23, 311). #3 Keiser (Fla.), (+36, 900), won their home tournament followed by #1 SCAD-Savannah, (+59, 923), in second. Dalton State would post (+63, 927) for the third ... (click for more)

Detectives with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office have made arrests in the October 2015 murder of 33-year-old Timothy Brian Stewart, which occurred in the  200 block of Layne Road, Soddy Daisy. On Tuesday, detectives charged Randy Layne, 35, with criminal homicide. Also, Randy Layne’s sister, Kattie Lynn Layne, 32, is charged with abuse of a corpse and criminal ... (click for more)

Fire damaged a home on Signal Mountain late Tuesday night. At  11:18 p.m., firefighters from Walden’s Ridge Emergency Services (WRES) responded to a house fire on 5011 Anderson Pike. When the first engine arrived on the scene, they reported two vehicles and a portion of the house were on fire. WRES immediately requested a mutual aid response for supporting fire ... (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)