Chattanooga State has been busy building the college’s first inaugural volleyball team by signing Sakari Pack, Anna Maria Novelli, Sidney Killingsworth, and most recently Ricki Lynn Bickley to its stable of players. An additional tryout has been scheduled for Saturday, June 2, from 10 a.m. to noon in the gymnasium of the Health Fitness Center Building on the main campus. ... (click for more)

Two Chattanooga girls tennis teams won state championships on Wednesday in Murfreesboro.   Baylor beat rival GPS 4-3 in the Division II-AA state title match and Signal Mountain beat L&N Stem 4-2 to win the Division I-A title.    Baylor's Lauren Carelli, Landie McBrayer, Anna Hawkings and Lily Mooney won singles matches  McBrayer and Presle Thomas ... (click for more)

Witnesses said Glen Allen Donaldson was calm after killing his son-in-law on Dec. 29, 2016, saying, "I'm just sitting here waiting for the law." Donaldson, 57, is facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of 39-year-old Adam Levi. The jury in the courtroom of Judge Don Poole was told that Donaldson left the residence on Niles Terrace where Levi was living and drove ... (click for more)

A Chattanooga man who earlier served time for an attempted first-degree murder is now facing an armed robbery count. Garion Devilliar Lewis Jr., 33, of 6409 Rosemary Dr., is charged with aggravated robbery as well as drug and gun counts. In an incident on May 9, a man who no longer lives in Chattanooga said he was leaving his mother's residence on Sholar Avenue when he saw ... (click for more)

In an opinion piece, 5/18/18, Rev. Josh Woodrow referred to me and my fellow School Board member, Joe Smith, as racists and white supremacists because we spoke out against busing. I have never met or spoken with Rev. Woodrow so he knows nothing about me. The reverend obviously knows nothing about Joe Smith either. Seems one of the reverend’s hobbies is “brewing beer”. Maybe, ... (click for more)

Several weeks ago we woke up to learn there had been another shooting in Chattanooga and the next day there were two paragraphs on the fourth page of the newspaper.  It has become so common we as a society have grown numb to it and, when a teen-aged girl in Texas said she wasn’t surprised last week when eight students and two teachers were massacred in her school some 30 miles ... (click for more)