PREP SPORTS SCHEDULES: Basketball, Wrestling, Lacrosse, Soccer (all schedules subject to change) (All times are local) ***We are in need of your region basketball tournament schedules. Also, we need updated baseball, softball, soccer and lacrosse schedules. Please send them to Dennis Norwood, Assistant Sports Editor, at dennisnorwood56@gmail.com.*** Prep Basketball Post-Season ... (click for more)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Prep Basketball Boys DI First Round Region 2-1A CSAS 65, Wartburg 60 Harriman 59, Sale Creek 26 Oneida 70, Copper Basin 31 Tellico Plains 57, Sunbright 42 Region 3-2A Red Bank 58, Sequoyah 57 The Lions went on the road Saturday night and survived to live again. Red Bank went into the fourth quarter leading by five over ... (click for more)

Chattanooga firefighters prevented a two-alarm fire from spreading through a massive warehouse on Sunday afternoon. The call came out at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday to the WestRock facility on Compress Street off Manufacturers Road. WestRock makes cardboard boxes. Responding crews could see heavy smoke coming from the structure and knew they were dealing with an active fire. ... (click for more)

Tony Bigoms, 61, who was convicted in the 2012 murder of Dana Wilkes, died on Friday in a state prison. Bigoms was tried and convicted twice in the murder and dismemberment of Ms. Wilkes. Her body was found on the banks of the Chickamauga River. He was convicted of first-degree murder in 2014, but was granted a retrial after the court of appeals found issues with the sequestration ... (click for more)

Tennesseans have proven we are resilient and determined moving through the COVID pandemic response. Getting to this point in our state -- one of only a handful that has economic growth, open schools and an ability to see a light at the end of this proverbial tunnel -- has taken unbelievable effort. Yet, one revelation of many over the last year has been the need to reject those ... (click for more)

It was about midnight last night, just at the point we flip a page on the calendar, when the month of March arrived in the middle of a thunderstorm. You bet, just as it has for ages, this month arrives like a lion and eases out 31 days from now as a lamb. I could hardly mind the thunder; I am so glad to see the arrival of spring and the promise my flowers will awake from their winter’s ... (click for more)