Ellis Smith
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Police say they caught a car thief on video
Charleston Police and the Bradley County Sheriff's Office say they caught a car thief on video. → Read More
Health inspector catches workers eating food off the grill, leaving hot dogs sitting at room temperature
Though it didn't completely fail its health inspection, the Krystal on LaFayette Road got the lowest score of the week — a 74 — after employees ate food on the grill food service line, stored raw eggs above ready-to-eat-foods, and left hot dogs sitting out at room temperature. → Read More
Red Bank police on the hunt for armed carjackers
Red Bank police are on the lookout for three, possibly four armed men who investigators believe are responsible for a carjacking on the south end of Ashmore Avenue today. → Read More
Restaurants dinged for mystery milk, roaches and double-gloving
Roaches, mystery milk and bare-handing food are just a few of the reasons a handful of local restaurants got dinged by the health inspector this week. → Read More
Missing teen's body found below bluff
Hamilton County deputies found the body of a teen who was reported missing yesterday in Sale Creek. The teen's body was found near the bottom of a bluff. → Read More
Two people struck by a vehicle on Market Street
Two people were struck by a vehicle Monday morning and transported to a hospital. The extent of their injuries was not determined. → Read More
Franklin Graham coming to Coolidge Park tonight for free event with The Afters
Evangelist Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, will appear tonight in Chattanooga's Coolidge Park as part of his Decision America tour. The free event is designed to solve racial, political and cultural divisions across the country. → Read More
The Tennessee River overflows its banks after floods force TVA to open spillways [video]
Parts of the Tennessee River overflowed its banks on Monday after TVA engineers opened spillways on the Chickamauga dam. → Read More
Health inspector catches employees not washing hands
Hamilton County's health inspector found that employees weren't washing their hands properly, found flies in the sink, and noticed that food being served to customers wasn't stored at the correct temperature during a recent inspection of the Bojangles on Ringgold Road. → Read More
Heavy storms poised to batter East Tennessee as weekend begins
The National Weather Service predicts strong to severe storms could hit several counties in the Chattanooga region on Friday and Saturday, as a cold front moves into East Tennessee. → Read More
Tennessee may allow selfies at polling places after Justin Timberlake controversy
After Justin Timberlake came under fire for a selfie he took at a polling place encouraging others to vote, the Tennessee Senate began work on a bill that would approve some use of mobile phones at polling place. → Read More
Hamilton County Schools to close early tomorrow as severe, wintery storms approach
Schools will close early on Wednesday ahead of what is expected to be severe weather. → Read More
Champy's adds seventh restaurant as brand grows westward
A decade after taking a job as a server at Champy's in Chattanooga, Samantha Goonon has risen through the ranks and saved enough money to build her own licensed Champy's restaurant. → Read More
Chattanooga police looking for missing 24-year-old who never returned from the gas station
Police are looking for Zulma Quizar, who was last seen heading to a gas station but never came back. → Read More
Chattanooga police, state troopers have issued more than 300 citations during distracted driving crackdown
Chattanooga police say they're cracking down on distracted driving with enhanced enforcement in an effort to keep drivers from endangering others. → Read More
Tennessee blasts 'unprecedented' FCC broadband ruling as unconstitutional in appeals court
Tennessee accused the Federal Communications Commission of unlawfully violating state sovereignty in an appeal filed last week, alleging that the federal government is attempting to arbitrarily rewrite state law and vest itself with new powers not granted by the Constitution. → Read More
Telecom experts finger AT&T's network as the root cause of Tuesday's five-hour outage
The country's biggest wireless carriers have shied away from pointing fingers at one another after a rare five-hour outage on Tuesday left much of the Southeast with spotty or no cellphone coverage for much of the day. → Read More
Cuban rum bar and cantina coming to Chattanooga's North Shore
Embargo 62, a Cuban rum bar and cantina that pays homage to the embargo placed on Cuba by former President John F. Kennedy in 1962, will open 53 years later on Chattanooga's North Shore. → Read More
Corky Coker, Chattanooga's poobah of tires, takes another track
All cars have stories, especially classic cars. → Read More
A different tune: Music mecca brewing in Chattanooga's Southside
The rumble of a gasoline-powered generator thumps through the dome of the Chattanooga Choo Choo as workers pound away at a new 500-seat music venue. The four-stroke engine may be noisy, but it's got rhythm, much like the Glenn Miller song that inspired the name of the famous train station-turned hotel. → Read More