FOOTBALL     VOLLEYBALL     WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Ooltewah at Soddy Daisy Rhea Co. at Red Bank McMinn Co. at Cleveland   THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Baylor at St. Cecelia CCS at Notre Dame East Ridge at Central Soddy Daisy at Walker Valley Sale Creek at Lookout Valley Collegedale Academy at Boyd-Buchanan ... (click for more)

I am considered to be a senior citizen, though I do not look at myself as being old-just older. I have health problems which go with the territory, but I can still mow my own yard. I can do normal tasks and can lift things pretty well. What I apparently  can't do well is stand up on my feet without falling a lot.  According to some of my friends that too goes with the ... (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)

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)