Lynda Edwards
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Dough-nations and Weird Veggies: Trying to prevent food waste is a passion for some
Potatoes shaped like Donald Trump. Peaches shaped like UFOs. → Read More
See Earth's coolest cars for free
It may be Chattanooga's most secretive tourist attraction. → Read More
Parents plead to social media to help find vanished son
Joe Keller's parents in Bradley County are hoping the powerhouses of social media can help accomplish what police have been unable to do: spread the news nationwide that their son vanished on July 23 while visiting the Rainbow Trout Ranch on Colorado's Rio Grande National Forest. → Read More
Local teen Joe Keller's missing person case stirs debate
Three buddies from Cleveland, Tenn. -- college math whiz and gifted athlete Joe Keller, along with his pals Christian Fetzner and Collin Gwaltney -- had paused on their cross-country trip to celebrate Keller's birthday at a Colorado dude ranch where his aunt and uncle live and work. → Read More
Facebook reunites ex-Marine with lost helper dog in Chattanooga
When Marine Corps veteran Jeffrey Crooks lost his beloved helper dog in Chattanooga, he posted a selfie with his Purty Girl and asked his 435 friends to share the photo and doggy description. → Read More
Colorado invites Bradley sheriff to help search for missing Cleveland teen
Joe Keller's 19th birthday should have been the joyous capper to a cross-country road trip with two buddies. → Read More
Siskin Children's Institute research director has stormy exit
Robin McWilliam's seven years as research director at the Siskin Center for Child and Family Research ended this week, a separation McWilliam attributed to budget tightening and bad chemistry with institute president John Farrimond. → Read More
After the vigils, the real work begins
Sadly, when mass murder occurs so publicly, so unexpectedly, so indiscriminately, it's the killers' names that seem to linger. → Read More
Neon Knights: Long-time lights are making a hip comeback
Making neon signs is a dangerous art. Glass tubes heated to 1,400 degrees can shatter, sending razor-sharp shards into the hands of an artist whose concentration has flickered momentarily. → Read More
Salvation Army culinary school offers hope to indigent students
Marcus Sales works as a chef in two jobs, the first at AT&T Field's giant grill, cooking up hot dogs and hamburgers for Chattanooga Lookouts games. His second job begins about 2 a.m. -- often the same night as Lookout games -- at a sports bar where two dancing girls sometimes entertain customers. → Read More
Chattanooga area conservative pastors concerned about impact of LGBT rights momentum
Legendary Alabama civil rights attorney Henry Frohsin believes the U.S. Supreme Court decision making same-sex marriage legal is a win-win situation for conservative churches and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. → Read More
Into the Buzzsaw 31 Times: 93-year-old WWII vet recalls the Battle of Iwo Jima
Coast Guard Lt. Paul George, a 23-year-old newlywed, kept a photo of his young wife Martha on the wall of his tiny cabin in his World War II ship. → Read More
Is Church Making You Chubby? Southern dishes are making pastors unhealthy
It's not always fair to blame the Devil for making Christians fat. Blame devil's food cake, deviled eggs and other fatty, sugary, yummy staples of the tabletop paradise known as the Southern church supper. → Read More
Doctor, racer, rancher: Chattanooga orthopedic surgeon wears many hats, but being Dad changed his life
Jim Osborn is a Chattanooga surgeon, cowboy and race car driver. → Read More
Stone Temple Pilots still going, trying to attract millennials
Gallery: Riverbend Festival photos: June 6, 2015 more photos Chester Bennington of the band Linkin Park performs in concert with Stone Temple Pilots during the MMRBQ Music Festival 2015 at the Susquehanna Bank Center on Saturday, May 16, 2015, in Camden, N.J. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP) Photo by Owen Sweeney Riverbend 2015 online Visit timesfreepress.com/news/riverbend to get complete… → Read More
Taste sensations: Doughnut makers always searching for next big flavor
It's Homer Simpson's dream job: brainstorming brand-new doughnut flavors then making the fantasies real. → Read More
Flamboyantly psychedelic: Self-taught artist combines colors, words and symbols
Here's how eye-catching Nathan McKenney's paintings are. → Read More
Local fans and ex-employees look back on David Letterman's legacy
Anyone who worked for TV icon David Letterman probably thought it was natural for him to express affection for Chattanooga schoolteacher Bridget Huckabay by strapping her into a harness then flying her across a high wire strung along the ceiling as she shrieked in terror and the audience cheered. → Read More
Chunkin' & flingin': Students at Central High build their own catapults, trebuchets
Central High School's football field seems to be under siege by medieval warriors. → Read More
Powwow brings hostel owners together to find ways to appeal to older travelers
Kevin Bowen has seen tortoises the size of Volkswagens and luminous turquoise sea life that glows on the crest of ocean waves in the Seychelles islands. He's walked in pastel temples, past giant Buddhas against the backdrop of the Himalayan Mountains in Nepal and strolled past street tango artists in baroque Buenos Aires. → Read More