While the well-known story that Benjamin Franklin wanted the wild turkey to be the national bird may be exaggerated, it is true that the founding father praised the wild gobbler's virtues in a ...

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The Chattanooga Times Free Press received 24 awards, including the top honor in its group, in the 2025 Tennessee Press Association journalism awards.

Case: ‘Big Three’ reunion on James River makes life simple again 3 hours, 41 minutes ago by Larry Case / Correspondent ...

Ranger Suárez pitched seven strong innings and the Philadelphia Phillies edged the Atlanta Braves 2-1 to take the three-game series on Sunday.

On a fall night in 2015, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was practicing alongside his high school teammates on a poorly-lit basketball court in the Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes.

The current structure of Hamilton County government was formed on the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion, the county's outgoing attorney, Rheubin Taylor, told commissioners during his ...

The son of a career army officer, Bennett led a nomadic life, attending ten different schools before graduating in 1980 from the University of North Alabama with degrees in Art and History. After ...

In the early 1900s, when African Americans were forced to sit in the back of trolleys behind white riders, a man named Randolph Miller started picking up Black Chattanoogans in horse-drawn buggies ...