Robots to compete in Walker County, Ga. this weekend
Last year, there was one robotics club in all of Walker County, at Rossville Middle School.
View ArticleTea party seeks to crash Tennessee House speaker race
NASHVILLE -- Traditionally an insider's affair, the contest for the Tennessee state House's most powerful post -- the speakership -- has been anything but that this year.
View ArticleNew highway connecting McMinnville and Woodbury, TN opens to traffic
Eight years down the road, so to speak, the last section of a $60 million, 13-mile, four-lane highway between Warren and Cannon counties is finally open for motorists traveling between McMinnville and...
View ArticleProtesters, supporters demonstrate at Obama speech in Nashville
NASHVILLE — About 200 protesters and supporters have been gathered outside a south Nashville community center where President Barack Obama spoke about his executive action on immigration.
View ArticleGov. Haslam proposes changes intended to help Tennessee teachers
NASHVILLE — Gov. Bill Haslam on Tuesday announced several proposals for Tennessee teachers, including adjusting the way they're evaluated and creating a Governor's Teacher Cabinet in which educators...
View ArticleSenate probe catalogs brutality against detainees
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States brutalized scores of terror suspects with interrogation tactics that turned secret CIA prisons into chambers of suffering and did nothing to make America safer after...
View ArticleList of the 13 techniques used on detainees
Thirteen "enhanced interrogation techniques" — interrogation methods — are at the center of the Senate Intelligence committee report about the CIA's use of harsh interrogation tactics after the Sept....
View ArticleCompeting claims of torture effectiveness
The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA program that included torturing al-Qaida detainees provides eight "primary" examples in which the CIA said it obtained good intelligence as a...
View ArticleFormer Hamilton County Judge Ron Durby’s law license transferred to inactive...
Former Hamilton County General Sessions Judge Ron Durby had his law license transferred to disability inactive status by Tennessee’s Supreme Court on Dec. 5, according to a news release.
View ArticleChattanooga food drive for veterans kicks off
Phillip Elliott runs his hands along the walls at the Chattanooga Vet Center, pointing out how high the boxes of donations stacked up last year. The boxes of canned food and macaroni reached to his...
View ArticleNeediest Cases helps woman bounce back
Samantha Thomas was getting by last spring, but barely.
View ArticleFormer Murray County magistrate won't testify in defense
ROME, Ga. -- Bryant Cochran has sat in court for a week now, watching people accuse him of sexually assaulting one female employee, looking through the phone of another female employee, framing a woman...
View ArticleBillboards decry Chattanooga medical program’s use of live pigs
A large, bloody scalpel looms over Rossville Boulevard.
View ArticleMarion gets $750,000 in drug case forfeiture
A partnership with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in investigating a marijuana trafficking scheme has netted the Marion County Sheriff's Office more than $750,000 in...
View ArticleTennessee delegates fume over Erlanger bonuses
State delegates are full of holiday jeer over nearly $2 million in bonuses awarded to Erlanger Health System executives last week.
View ArticleState to decide this month whether to junk $37 million, nonworking TennCare...
NASHVILLE -- State officials hope to decide later this month whether they will have to junk a problem-plagued $37.5 million computer system that was supposed to start making Medicaid eligibility...
View ArticleChattanooga policeman leaves family with full bellies, warm hearts
When Officer Bryon Boller rolled up to the Family Dollar on Rossville Boulevard on a verbal disturbance call, the first thing he noticed was that the back window of a Ford Ranger was broken and the...
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