A report on the 2018-19 Tennessee’s big game hunting seasons will be among the agenda items for the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission at its May 23-24 meeting. It will be held at the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency’s Ray Bell Region II Building. Thursday’s committee meetings will begin at 1 p.m. The regular commission meeting starts at 9 a.m., Friday. The public is ... (click for more)

Ashley Scott, a seventh grader at Tullahoma’s East Middle School, became the first student from Tennessee’s National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) to win a national championship. The individual honor came at the 2019 National NASP Tournament May 9-11 at the Louisville Ky. Fair and Exposition Center. Ashley shot a 295 (out of a possible 300) as did Madalyn Weiss, an eighth ... (click for more)

Four men were shot in two overnight shootings in Hixson. Two people were shot and killed on Ardis Lane. At approximately 10:07 p.m., Chattanooga Police responded to the 6700 block of Ardis Lane on a report of persons shot. Upon arrival, police located two men suffering from gunshot wounds. Hamilton County EMS responded and pronounced Kirtus Thompson, 27, deceased on ... (click for more)

Greg Vital, who is fighting to keep a major TVA transmission line from crossing his Meigs County farm, said a group of ancient stone cairns and a section of the Trail of Tears have been found on the farm. He is asking that TVA reroute the line that is being built to a new TVA power center. Mr. Vital said TVA located one of the cairns and agreed to move the line from it. But ... (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)

Ever since Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law the most nauseating abortion legislation in the history of the United States on Wednesday, I have tried to find a worse decision by the lawmakers in any state to equal such absurdity and I most certainly cannot. While I am confident those in the State house would have voted differently had each been asked, “What if it was your ... (click for more)