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)

-Oliver Simonsen demolished the Chattanooga Mocs school record for 54-hole score leading the team to the Memphis Intercollegiate title. Simonsen shot 21-under 195 claiming medalist honors while the squad turned in its best total since 2009 with 851 (-13) at Colonial Country Club. “It’s great to see Ollie break out and get the win,” Coach Mark Guhne stated. “We’ve seen this ... (click for more)

City Transportation Director Blythe Bailey said Tuesday that the Black Creek Mountain Development Group will pay for a review by an engineering firm of plans for a new city road up Aetna Mountain to a planned major development on top. Geosyntec Consultants is charging $39,754 for the examination of the planned road that will roughly follow the track of the current dirt road that ... (click for more)

Two tellers from the Hixson branch of the Bank of America testified Tuesday they are positive that Walter Frank Rice is the individual who robbed them at gunpoint last July 25. General Sessions Court Judge Lila Statom bound a bank robbery charge against Rice, 36, of 4734 Sabrina Lane, Hixson, to the Grand Jury. She raised his bond on the bank robbery charge to $250,000, calling ... (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)

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)