Couples are invited to laugh together on Wednesday, Feb. 12 from 6-8 p.m. during an evening about the humor that hearing loss and miscommunication brings to couples, with nationally known comic Moody Molavi. The event will take place at the Jewish Cultural Center, 5461 North Terrace Road. Laugh, learn ways to express yourself with your partner, and listen to hearing health tips. ... (click for more)

The YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga in partnership with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church celebrated the ribbon-cutting of a new expanded preschool – The YMCA Early Learning Center at St. Paul’s on Thursday. The site will enable the Y to serve an additional 45 preschoolers, in addition to its current Downtown Family YMCA Preschool location. In 2018, the Downtown Preschool served 189 ... (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He said new "performance standards" adopted by the department could be construed as quotas, but he said the system was withdrawn when questions were raised about it.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)