Employee benefits provider Unum has a new benefit for its own employees: increased adoption assistance. Starting this month, the company will provide employees who adopt a child a one-time benefit of $25,000 to help pay for the cost. “Adoption is an important avenue to consider for people growing their families, but it can be expensive,” said Liz Ahmed, executive vice president ... (click for more)

The state of Tennessee ended 2019 with steady unemployment that continued to sit near record low levels, according to new data from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD). For the second consecutive month, the state recorded a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.3%. The December 2019 figure is 0.1 of a percentage point away for Tennessee’s ... (click for more)

Tereasa King, 36, of Hixson, has been identified as the person killed in a single-vehicle accident Monday afternoon on Middle Valley Road. At approximately 2 p.m., the driver of a pickup truck was going north on Middle Valley Road in a curve when the truck went off the roadway, down an embankment into a wooded area, it rolled, and eventually the driver was ejected. Ms. ... (click for more)

A 12-year-old was found safe in Nashville after an Amber Alert had been issued on behalf of the Chattanooga Police Department for Lucy Lucas. She was last seen on Tuesday afternoon in Chattanooga. The girl was found four hours after an Amber Alert was issued by the TBI. (click for more)

The behavior of our local radical left women was abusive and uncalled for. The next Woman’s Rally and March should be lessons in common decency and civility towards other women. Interrupting an invited female speaker with displays of yelling and holding up disparaging signs is wrong. The women before me that broke the barriers in male-dominated professions would be embarrassed ... (click for more)

Herbert Slatery, Tennessee’s Attorney General, is waging all-out war on BigPharma, alleging a huge supplier of opioids and 12 of its top customers in Tennessee may be involved in a mammoth case of drug trafficking and racketeering. Two of those customers, Food City and Walgreens, just surfaced when the Knoxville News-Sentinel successfully brought a lawsuit to make the court records ... (click for more)