Erlanger officials announced today that three new Erlanger Express Care locations in Soddy-Daisy, East Brainerd and downtown Chattanooga will be opening Memorial Day Weekend. According to Erlanger President & CEO Kevin Spiegel, these treatment centers represent a continued commitment to the health and well-being of the communities in each of these service areas. Erlanger’s ... (click for more)

Krish Bhadra, M.D., interventional pulmonologist at CHI Memorial’s Buz Standefer Lung Center, has been named and nominated to leadership roles at two national organizations. He is the only private practice physician named to the Scientific Leadership Board of the GO2 Lung Cancer Foundation, which recently formed when the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation and Lung Cancer Alliance ... (click for more)

A statewide AMBER Alert was issued by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation on behalf of the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office for Octavia Shaw. The TBI said Octavia is a 23-month-old black female with black hair and brown eyes. She is two feet tall and weighs 30 pounds. Octavia was last seen wearing a blue dress. The TBI said Octavia was taken by Matias Martinez, a 37-year-old ... (click for more)

Che'Anthony Cannon has been sentenced to serve 27 months in federal prison after being convicted of being a felon with a gun. Cannon, who is one of the Athens Park Bloods members charged in a RICO conspiracy in state court, appeared before Judge Curtis Collier. On Feb. 18, 2018, Chattanooga Police Department detectives encountered defendant Cannon stepping out of a vehicle ... (click for more)

On Tuesday, May 21, Judge Paty and myself attended the City Council budget meeting. We did discuss our budget but there was never any mention of getting rid of the City Court until after we left. I really wish they would have ask for our input while we were there. It appears to me that the first people you would want to ask about this issue would be the City Judges. ... (click for more)

A couple of weeks ago I was in the midst of a wonderful crowd and, as we took our places for dinner, there was a bright-eyed fifth-grader seated on my right. Like most his age, he didn’t say much at first but with a nudge or two, he really got it going. He told me how excited he was about going to McCallie this fall and I promised, “Get ready – you are going to have more fun that ... (click for more)