PREP BASKETBALL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 CCS at Baylor Knox Catholic at GPS District 6-2A Tournament Boys: 7:30 pm (8) East Ridge at (5) Central 7:00 pm (7) Hixson at (6) Signal Mountain Girls: 6:00 pm (8) East Ridge at (5) Central 6:00 pm (7) Howard at (6) Brainerd Division II-A East Region Tournament Boys: 7:00 pm (3) CAK at (2) Notre ... (click for more)

Prep Basketball Round-Up MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Girls: Division II-A East Region Tournament Silverdale 64, Grace Christian 46 Knox Webb 45, Grace Baptist 25 CAK 42, Notre Dame 39 King's Academy 87 Collegedale 39 Van Buren Co. 62, Sale Creek 45 South Pittsburg 59, Hardy memorial ... (click for more)

A Chattanooga man who was hit head-on by a vehicle being chased by police near Elizabethton, Tn., was killed in the crash late Sunday morning. He was identified as Thomas Taylor, 31. He was driving a BMW north on U.S. Highway 19E when his vehicle was struck by a Lincoln Towncar going the wrong way at a high rate of speed. Two other people were injured in the collision at Gap ... (click for more)

Two fishermen spotted a body in the Ocoee River on Sunday. Polk County Sheriff's deputies were then able to retrieve a man's body around noon. It was located about 100 yards west of Big River Access. The body was sent to Knoxville for an autopsy and to seek identification. (click for more)

Monday, Feb. 17, is President’s Day. The holiday was originally designed to honor our first president, George Washington, and was celebrated on his birthday, Feb. 12. In an effort to give the public more leisure time, in 1971, President Richard Nixon officially designated certain federal holidays to be celebrated on Mondays. This included President Washington’s. Since it no longer ... (click for more)

A harbinger, we have been taught, is “something that foreshadows a future event,” or “something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come.” Last week in Connecticut, the families of three high school athletes – all female – filed a lawsuit against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference. The lawsuit claims a current CIAC policy is a violation of the federal ... (click for more)