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Taylor Smith’s 13 th birthday was last Thursday and a big celebration was held. Many hundreds sent gifts from every direction and, just like she really wanted, each was the exact same thing. Needless to say, her spirit soared, which was the whole idea to begin with anyway. Earlier this year, during the first week of January to be exact, Taylor Scout Smith, age 12 of Johnson ... (click for more)

Authorities said late Tuesday that a 21-year-old woman sought in the murder of a Dalton convenience store clerk had been taken into custody in Bartow County. Officials had been looking for Skyy Raven Marie Mims in Atlanta, but she was found at a residence on Southmont Drive after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation received a tip that she was there. The GBI contacted the U.S. ... (click for more)

In a press conference given in response to the Chattanooga Housing Authority's acceptance of the city's bid to buy the Harriet Tubman housing site, Mayor Andy Berke said, "When I took office almost a year ago, I said I was going to create stronger neighborhoods and grow the economy. Today we took another step forward in that vision." The city plans to make the site a light industrial ... (click for more)

Norma Nelson has been coaching high school softball for a long time and she's won a whole lot of games along the way, but chances are good that she's never ever wanted to win a season opener any more than the one her team played on Tuesday afternoon. Nelson was the head coach at Ooltewah for most of her career and never had a losing season, but for whatever reason, was fired at ... (click for more)

Brett Standifer has been widely acknowledged as one of the top quarterbacks in District 5-AAA – early at Soddy-Daisy and this past season at Bradley Central – over the past two years. It might surprise area sports fans that Standifer looked like a seasoned veteran making another start in a sterling baseball career on Tuesday. Well, fans who don’t know Standifer well would be ... (click for more)