FOOTBALL     VOLLEYBALL     WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Ooltewah at Soddy Daisy Rhea Co. at Red Bank McMinn Co. at Cleveland   THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Baylor at St. Cecelia CCS at Notre Dame East Ridge at Central Soddy Daisy at Walker Valley Sale Creek at Lookout Valley Collegedale Academy at Boyd-Buchanan ... (click for more)

Cleveland State Community College's women's volleyball hosted a home match against Chattanooga State  on Wednesday  evening. Chattanooga State defeated the Lady Cougars three sets to one. The first set of the match went well for the Lady Cougars. They started out with an early 10-5 lead over the Lady Tigers and managed to consistently hold that lead the rest of the ... (click for more)

The government is asking that former Pilot Travel Centers president Mark Hazelwood be sentenced to between 168-210 months for his part in a fraud against truckers. The government is also asking that Hazelwood be ordered to pay a $750,000 fine. It was noted that all restitution has been made by Pilot to the tune of some $100 million. Attorney Brad Henry, of Knoxville and New ... (click for more)

Randy Boyd, who was among the Republican finalists for the governor nomination, is being considered as interim president at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Joe DiPietro this week announced that Nov. 21 will be his last day on the job. The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees are to meet next week and consider the Boyd appointment. Mr. Boyd, a UT alumnus, would ... (click for more)

Arming teachers with guns in the classroom, as Bill Lee proposes, would be the single most dangerous thing to happen to students in Tennessee history. Students and teachers in close proximity to loaded firearms daily? Across this state, in middle schools alone, there are probably hundreds of student/teacher conflicts a day. What if a student got hold of gun in a struggle with ... (click for more)

It’s easy for me to say that I either know, or know about, almost every person running in November for the state legislature. Yet when I describe Lemon Williams as the most exciting of the bunch, that’s because he's the only guy I had never heard of when he picked up his qualifying papers. He just turned out the best political aspirant I have had a conversation with in the last ... (click for more)