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The lone Hamilton County commissioner to vote against the county's budget this past week said his decision was due to, among other reasons, a school funding issue that dominated budget talks two years ago. timesfreepress.com/news/2026…
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Collegedale police have made an arrest in the disappearance of 56-year-old Robert George Locke, who was reported missing in late May. timesfreepress.com/news/2026…
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Check out these photos of students taking out sailboats onto Chickamauga Lake. The sailing camp, based out of Privateer Yacht Club in Hixson, has weekly camps through the end of July.
📸: Matt Hamilton
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While most comic book creators outsource different aspects of the process, Gideon Brimingham is a one-man comic book band.
"I do everything," Brimingham said. "I write. I illustrate. I color. I letter." timesfreepress.com/news/2026…
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Change is rapidly coming to East Chattanooga, the long neglected historic residential corridor between the Tennessee River and Missionary Ridge that has anchored Chattanooga's Black middle class since the Jim Crow era. timesfreepress.com/news/2026…
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Chattanooga and Hamilton County have set aside nearly $1.3 million in tax revenue from a 470-acre district around the new Lookouts baseball stadium to pay off public debt on the $115 million ballpark. timesfreepress.com/news/2026…
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Through changes in ownership, a move, a rebrand, a brief closure and a pandemic, the Oakwood Cafe has remained for nearly 100 years. timesfreepress.com/news/2026…
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"Learning doesn't have to stop once you leave college. You have the right to keep learning," says Shawanda Mason, co-founder of The Chattery, which offers 50 classes for adults monthly, in an array of domains. mychattanooga.com/news/2025/…
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A group of local volunteers hopes to stir communal excitement for the World Cup by putting together a website that aggregates watch parties at venues across the Scenic City. timesfreepress.com/news/2026…
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Dr. Patrick LaRochelle has been living in a bubble for the past two weeks, waiting to see if he has contracted Ebola.
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Staff Photo by Seth Carpenter/ Richard Logan paints the City Hall Annex blue on Thursday, June 11, 2026.
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Iranians are living between confusion and exhaustion as the country and its economy are squeezed between war and multiplying crises at home. timesfreepress.com/news/2026…
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FBI agents have searched the office of an Ohio group that supports voter registration efforts, seizing documents and computer files, a board member of the organization said Friday.
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As Roy Heintz takes over as the new head coach for girls' basketball at Chattanooga Christian School, he comes to the role with a wide range of experience — and plenty of it. timesfreepress.com/news/2026…
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A Mexican man listed in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement press release announcing the arrests of the "worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens" was sentenced to 15 months in prison Friday in Chattanooga. timesfreepress.com/news/2026…
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Chattanooga-based manufacturer Novonix has shipped off a mass-produced product sample the company says is the first of its kind made in North America. timesfreepress.com/news/2026…
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As part of the Remember the Removal ride, Cherokee Nation cyclists cover over 900 miles, traveling from their ancestral homelands in the Southeast to their current homelands in Oklahoma.
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A Tennessee state trooper has been decommissioned after being charged with three counts of aggravated assault in a June 2 shooting incident in Grundy County. timesfreepress.com/news/2026…
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SpaceX jumped 11% as the rocket maker’s stock opened for trading. That price gives the company a market value of $1.96 trillion and is enough to make CEO Elon Musk the first-ever trillionaire. timesfreepress.com/news/2026…
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The repairs stem from deterioration of the existing concrete on the eastbound side, according to state transportation agency spokesperson Rae Anne Bradley. timesfreepress.com/news/2026…
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