A celebration for the third anniversary of Senior Pastor Gary L. Hathaway and First Lady Cathy Hathaway will be held on Sunday, Aug. 27 at Greater Tucker Missionary Baptist Church, 1115 North Moore Road in Chattanooga. The guest speaker at the 10:45 a.m. service will be Reverend Alonzo Noble.  A service at 4 p.m. will feature guest speaker Pastor Carlos Williams and the ... (click for more)

The staff at Chattanooga House of Prayer are providing two retreats to help area mothers and couples to “fall in love with prayer." ChattHOP will host the following retreats in October at their new location in Red Bank, 3912 Dayton Blvd.,Second Floor:  Saturday, Oct. 7 Prayer Retreat for Married Couples Time: 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.  Cost: $20 (per couple) ... (click for more)

The Social Security Administration paid almost $181,000 in benefits to a Sewanee man after he died in 1988, federal prosecutors said. The government learned in 2014 that the money designated to Walter Acton was going to a man living in his home at 3932 Jump Off Road - Edward Hawkins. Hawkins has agreed to plead guilty to embezzlement in the case. Prosecutor Perry Piper said ... (click for more)

A former TVA engineer from Chattanooga had the top equipment and venue for the solar eclipse he has been waiting 47 years to see. Bob Anderson, a graduate of East Ridge High and UTC, said he went to the library at the time of a partial eclipse in Chattanooga in 1970 and noted there would be a full one in 2017. He said, "I never dreamed I would get to view it with the equipment ... (click for more)

As a child growing up in the Chattanooga area, at an early age I became fascinated with the history that cloaks the city. In those days there was enough pollution to cover the town and its history but that didn't stop tourists from coming to visit Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and the Chickamauga battlefield.     Chattanooga's leadership was not very far sighted ... (click for more)

Far and away, my favorite comment on destroying statues appeared on my Facebook page the other day and, believe it or not, it was the clear-minded Times Free Press Sports Editor Stephen Hargis who penned, “This statue offends me! It must be torn down!” Underneath his fiery words, the long-suffered UT football fan posted a picture of the bronze monument outside of Bryant-Denny stadium ... (click for more)