Cleveland State Community College is recognizing the best and brightest of the students enrolled into the college. These students have worked diligently to be placed on the President’s List, Dean’s List, or Honor Roll for the Fall 2021 semester, officials said. Each semester, those students achieving a 4.0 grade point average are recognized by being placed on the President’s ... (click for more)

Senator Bo Watson on Thursday will continue a series of town hall meetings that provide Tennesseans the opportunity to participate in a review of the state’s education funding formula and share what matters most to them. The meeting, at the Collegedale Commons, will help create a more student-centered funding approach that incentivizes positive outcomes, ensures all students are ... (click for more)

A ninth grade female student at East Hamilton High School was stabbed multiple times in the lunch room Wednesday morning by a fellow ninth grade female, sources said. The student with the knife was arrested and transported to the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center. EMTs were called for the the student who was injured. She was taken to a local hospital. The incident ... (click for more)

Hamilton County is set to possibly receive millions of dollars in a settlement with three manufacturers and distributors of opioids, attorney Ronnie Berke told members of the County Commission on Wednesday. In late December, a federal judge rejected a proposed $4.5 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma that would have given the Sackler family a full release from any liability. ... (click for more)

Johnny Haynes was a special person. Under almost clear skies and 45 degree temperatures, he was buried Saturday afternoon when a small group of his friends gathered at Greenwood Cemetery off Wilcox Boulevard for the committal service. The retired Chattanooga Police Department employee has been my friend since 1962. The Central High School graduate was born with polio but was ... (click for more)

Along with our trust, most employers are going to need to give those who participated in the great resignation something to hold onto. The cliché during the pandemic is that we’re all in the same storm, not the same boat. Some of you are in yachts while the rest of us are drowning, grasping at driftwood. For some it’s being deep in medical debt, for others they suffer from burnout ... (click for more)