Christ Church in East Brainerd will host a Fall Carnival Caravan for kids Wednesday at 6 p.m. Parents are urged to let the kids dress in costume, load up in the car and drive through a character-lined caravan for prizes and presents. Every child will receive a goodie bag with treats, no tricks. The line for cars will go through a driveway overhang on the Morris Hill Road side ... (click for more)

Metropolitan Tabernacle Church will host special guest pastor Jeff Taylor to preach in the MTC Sanctuary Sunday at 10:30 a.m. The church has cleaning of high touch point areas, hand sanitizer stations and the coffee and conversation area is closed. There will be spaced sanctuary seating. Kidz World and the nursery are back open. There will be a meet and greet after the ... (click for more)

A 13-year-old boy was shot Monday around 4:48 p.m. on Central Avenue. Police located the victim at the 5200 block on Slayton Avenue and determined he had run from the actual crime scene in the 5300 block of Central Avenue. The victim was taken to a local hospital by Hamilton County EMS for treatment of a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Officers secured the ... (click for more)

Tennessee and Georgia senators were among those voting to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. Judge Barrett was confirmed by a vote of 52 to 48. She previously served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Judge Barrett is a mother of seven and is now the youngest member currently serving on the Supreme Court. Senator Lamar ... (click for more)

I feel it too. It is easy to hate. Maybe we could try harder to love. Hate seeps into our bones, rules our integrity, and convinces us to forsake those we love. Hate is toxic. It spreads to our neighbors; people we once trusted. It spreads to our coworkers and friends; people who once trusted us. We lose sight of what truly matters. That is what we have in common now. Is ... (click for more)

There have been a bunch of times in my half-century as a writer when people – especially other writers – have called me out for being different. That in itself isn’t a bad thing (I rather like it), but Alf Van Hoose, the legendary sports editor, told me once in a crowd, “You are a rarity … you’ll put the word ‘Jesus’ in a paragraph, and I appreciate that.” But it’s true - the scariest ... (click for more)