Here are upcoming street closings: Johnson Street Johnson Street will be closed between Passenger Street and Rossville Avenue on Wednesday, July 17, until Wednesday, July 24, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily for building construction. Lightfood Mill Road Lightfoot Mill Road will be closed at the railroad tracks between Youngstown Road and Cherwood Lane on Wednesday, ... (click for more)

The Wilson Road Neighborhood Group will have a second meeting Tuesday night to discuss installing street lights along Wilson Road from the Georgia state line to Happy Valley Road. The meeting will take place at Rossville Elementary School on Wilson Road at 6:30 p.m. "These lights will improve safety along this stretch of roadway," officials said. Walker County Commissioner ... (click for more)

Chattanooga Police said the incident in which one man was killed and two others injured at an apartment near the UTC campus involved shots being fired through a locked door. Police have arrested both suspects involved in the fatal shooting Sunday. Omerrieal Woods was apprehended Monday evening by the Chattanooga Police Department's Fugitive Unit with assistance from the ... (click for more)

A Chattanooga man who spent 14 1/2 years at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary is set to go back behind bars. Gary Dewayne Cross, 42, on Tuesday was sentenced by Judge Travis McDonough to serve eight years in federal prison. He had initially been facing much more time with an initial guideline range of 262-327 months due to his meeting the category of an armed career criminal. ... (click for more)

Back a long time ago, when I was in high school at McCallie, us students were afforded a lot of freedoms. But those freedoms came with the expectation that you knew, above all else, to be honest and truthful. From the outset, this was always assumed to be the case. For example, if you missed a test, you could take it at home and return it the following day, along with a signed statement ... (click for more)

I know precious little about hot water heaters except for Rule No. 1 – when one that’s older than your youngest child starts leaving a pool of water on the kitchen floor, “take low and go.” Replace the thing and forget about it. I don’t want to discuss it, don’t want be a prudent buyer by taking half the day to study it, and I am not about to drive all over town to find the best ... (click for more)