The Ringgold Playhouse plans on bringing big time laughs to downtown Ringgold over Memorial Day weekend with its Comedy Club set to take place during the annual 1890s Day Jamboree. Best known for traditional theatre, TRP branched out last year with its Comedy Clubs – a mix of improvisational comedy and stand-up. “The Comedy Club was an idea we’d been discussing for a while, ... (click for more)

English pop-rock band, The 1975 played a sold-out show at Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville on Wednesday night. Touring in support of their latest album, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships , the group (comprised of Matty Healy, lead singer, Adam Hann, guitar, Ross MacDonald, bass, and George Daniel, drums) opened with "Give Yourself a Try" from last year's release. ... (click for more)

A motorist who felt he got "cut off" by a vehicle entering I-24 in Brainerd wound up getting in a road rage brawl with the other motorist near the Fourth Avenue Exit on Friday. It also resulted in the arrest of Joseph C. Koehler, 42, of 619 Texas Ave., Signal Mountain. He was charged with assault. The other driver, Alexander Martin Nicolou, 32, of 3501 Angela Lane, was not ... (click for more)

Billy Hawk, who was given a new trial after being convicted of a murder that happened 35 years ago, is deciding which lawyer to use this time around. In an appearance before Criminal Court Judge Don Poole on Monday, he was with attorneys Frank Lannom and Melanie Bean of Lebanon, Tn. However, attorney Lannom said they had not yet been retained. Judge Poole gave Hawk until June ... (click for more)

These shootings continue and something has to be done to try and stop them whether they are domestic, robbery or gang related. We obviously can not remove these handguns from every man, woman and child. I suggest that merchants that sell handguns raise the minimum age to 21 years for the purchase of handgun ammunition only. This 21 age requirement would not include ammunition ... (click for more)

Sometime this afternoon, the Republican members of the Tennessee Legislature will join a growing chorus of those convinced it is time for Glen Casada, the group’s Speaker of the House, to step down. They will cite several tawdry emails between Casada’s former Chief of Staff and himself as the reason but that’s not entirely true. Casada will step down in great shame because he has ... (click for more)