Olivet Baptist Church, 740 East M L King Blvd., will host a Go Red - Love Your Heart event on Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Kingdom Center. Go Red focus on cardiovascular disease and stroke prevention awareness for women. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Robert C McKoy, and cardiologist Mrs. Shirley Gordon will provide a healthy food demonstration. In addition, Mrs. Terrell Steven, ... (click for more)

Pastors Steve and Reita Ball of Metropolitan Tabernacle Church, 2101 West Shepherd Road in Chattanooga, invite all to come Sunday as they present a Valentine's message titled "The Love Puzzle." Praise and worship will be led by Worship Pastor's Adam and Olivia Aziz, along with Metro Praise Band and Choir. Children's Pastor's Brian and Britti Raff and the Metro Kidz Staff will ... (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)