Dollar General announced Thursday it is under construction on a new DGX location in Chattanooga at 728 Market St, unit 142, with completion currently planned for late winter 2020. The new location will be the third DGX store in Tennessee following two DGX locations in Nashville that opened in in 2016 and 2019. DGX Chattanooga is expected to provide customers with approximately ... (click for more)

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 boyfriend of a female co-worker has been tied to the mysterious murder of an Ooltewah man who was shot and killed outside his home. Sanel Durakovic, 25, has been charged by Sheriff's Office detectives with first-degree murder in the Jan. 7 slaying of 57-year-old Patrick Godwin. Authorities said Godwin was a hairdresser who worked at the Tease Salon with Sabina Blue, the ... (click for more)

District Attorney Neal Pinkston has told the TBI to close its investigation of an alleged quota arrest system at the Collegedale Police Department. He said new "performance standards" adopted by the department could be construed as quotas, but he said the system was withdrawn when questions were raised about it. Three former Collegedale Police officers filed a $2 million federal ... (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)

I love the story that is going around about a guy being interviewed in one of these desperation job fairs – with unemployment figures as low as they are – and the kid is being interviewed by Volkswagen. The boy is smart but, better yet, he’s passed the drug test. As the recruiter pushed to close the deal, he says, “We’ll start you at $25,000 but a little later you’ll be up to $40,000.” ... (click for more)