Cleveland High School announces the Ninth Annual Alumni Hall of Fame Inductees are: - Brad Benton, Class of 1980, owner, Baskin Robbins; - Lawrence Armstrong, Class of 1985, president, NAACP; - Dr. Sara Fletcher Collona, Class of 1998, oncology specialist; - Dr. Jeff Elliott, Class of 1989, chief of staff, Cleveland City Schools; - Robby Markham, Class of 2009, U.S. ... (click for more)

Cleveland State's Alumni Community hosted a nursing alumni ceremony inside the new Health and Science Center. Dozens of alumni, local employers and Cleveland State nursing faculty attended to connect and network. Future alumni events will be taking place throughout the year. To learn about upcoming alumni events, please contact Cleveland State's Alumni Office at 614-8703 or ... (click for more)

County Commission Chairman Sabrena Smedley has filed papers in Nashville challenging the results of the May 3 Republican primary election for county mayor. She said Matt Hullander, who finished third in the race, has agreed to sign on to her appeal. Weston Wamp was declared the winner of the primary with 14,425 votes to 14,104 for Ms. Smedley and 12,171 for Mr. Hullander. ... (click for more)

There's 137 acres of prime land in Hixson now being eyed by several different groups - it's the Valleybrook Golf Course. Chattanooga businessman Henry Luken, who bought it at an auction nine years ago for $950,000 (plus six percent sale commission, is shopping it for $3.4 million. He said a Florida group is eyeing it along with some groups in Chattanooga, but no deal has yet ... (click for more)

I nearly bit off my tongue trying to restrain myself with regard to the attacks on Sheriff Jim Hammond in recent weeks. For over 25 years I have known Jim. I know him to be a fine Christian gentleman, a patriotic American, a genuinely compassionate leader. For many years, at his church, he taught Sunday School. On behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice, he taught constitutional ... (click for more)

On Monday Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill to combat bad behavior, which most laws do, but HB 1571 should have never been necessary. It bans angry mobs and profane picketers from going into neighborhoods to protest in front of somebody’s house. We’ve seen the upraised middle fingers and the insidious language spewed out of megaphones in recent weeks in front of some Supreme ... (click for more)