Ooltewah football coach Benny Monroe and McMinn County High School coach Bo Cagle and their players discuss the importance of Friday night's game.

Chattanooga Times Free Press sports editor Jay Greeson and SEC beat writer Darren Epps take a few minutes to discuss what the Tennesse Vols will doing during the off week and look beyond to UAB in week 3.

School counselor Jose Jimenez recently began working at Chattanooga Valley Elementary in Flintstone, Ga. A yellow Labrador named Zorro, donated by Canine Companion for Independence, helps Mr. Jimenez connect with children who visit his office.

At a Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial board meeting Thursday, EPB President and CEO Harold DePriest said the utility, responding to higher costs passed along from TVA, will raise electric rates for consumers beginning Oct. 1 by about $20 a month.

About 200 people and 29 pets evacuated to this area during Hurricane Gustav this weekend are being housed at the Brainerd Recreation Center.

Chattanooga Times Free Press Sports Editor Jay Greeson and SEC beat writer Darren Epps discuss and dissect results from week 1 of Southeastern Conference college football.

A late-model Chevrolet left the roadway in the 7300 block of Standefer Gap Road shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday and crashed into the ground floor of a three-story apartment building at the Stone Crest Village, officials said. The video shows the aftermath of the accident.

City civil engineer Jason Payne and other city and county construction employees have been transforming more than 1,340 acres of Enterprise South property into an auto plant site. In this video, take a tour of the site that will be home to a Volkswagen auto plant expected to employ about 2,000 people.

Volkswagen’s planned $1 billion Chattanooga plant is the biggest single investment ever made in Tennessee by a company and is drawing the state’s largest-ever incentives package, officials said Friday.

At a Times Free Press editorial board meeting on Friday, local and state officials said the millions of dollars in taxpayer money spent to land a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga will result in a larger sum being pumped back into the ecomomy.

In the Times Free Press game of the week, Tyner on Friday tries to get its first win in three years against Brained. Watch as both teams prepare for the challenge of facing a crosstown rival.

Chattanooga Times Free Press sports editor Jay Greeson and SEC beat writer Darren Epps take a few minutes to discuss what will happen in this Monday night's Tennessee Vols vs. UCLA football game.

In the video, shot during a Times Free Press editorial board meeting in July, Debra Matthews discusses the challenges that inner-city schools face and the accomplishments she helped bring about for education during her service on the Hamilton County school board. Ms. Matthews died Aug. 24 of undetermined causes.

Twenty-eight officers from agencies in southeast Tennessee, northwest Georgia, West Virginia and Kentucky are spending this week in a basic sniper observer course hosted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The course — taught annually — also helps create links between the FBI and officers at smaller agencies.