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Five Signal Mountain Middle-High School staff members have had their licenses flagged by the Tennessee State Board of Education after being suspended for drinking while chaperoning a senior class trip.

In the midst of a flurry of complaints against Public Safety Director Tommy Freeman for fostering a hostile work environment and retaliation against employees, city officials confirm he was fired this morning.

A defendant in an ongoing murder trial has testified that he was in the apartment to buy 7 grams of cocaine from a local rapper, who was killed in the home invasion robbery.

State and local officials say they'll continue to monitor slide-prone areas of the Ocoee River Gorge's road cut on U.S. Highway 64 in Polk County, Tenn., after a small rock slide near TVA's No. 2 powerhouse temporarily closed one lane of the road overnight Tuesday.

Truckers driving big rigs through Rossville will need to stay on U.S. Highway 27 -- or face a $141 fine.

TVA's nuclear operations chief told officials with the Nuclear Regulatory Agency on Tuesday that Browns Ferry is not ready yet for a third and final special NRC inspection to clear its "red" safety rating.

The trial of two men charged in the 2009 home invasion shooting death of local rapper Robert "Brikk" Brown begins its second day this morning.

The Southern Democrat respects his parents and so fights for Social Security, 3rd Congressional District candidate Bill Taylor said.

Chattanooga City Council members questioned the gang task force, police and fire pension board, and social service agency budgets on Tuesday.

Chattanooga is "abnormally dry" right now, according to weather officials.

Demolition is nearly complete on a fast-paced project to open a science, technology, engineering and math school in Hamilton County by August. But now a lack of cash stands to slow construction.

A group of architects on Tuesday proposed sweeping changes for the Vine Street corridor between Georgia Avenue and Douglas Street. Students currently use the term "dead zone" to refer to the vast expanse of parking lot blacktop on the street's north side.

Dalton High School has been ranked the 16th-best school in Georgia in an annual U.S. News & World Report study.

CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Construction cost for a renovated Betsy Vines Theater at Cleveland High School and a new traffic configuration for the front of Cleveland Middle School were reviewed Tuesday by the Cleveland Board of Education.

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