CLEVELAND — Newt Gingrich, suddenly in danger of losing his perch as Mitt Romney’s strongest GOP challenger, is fine-tuning his presidential campaign to place more emphasis on raising money, guarding his home turf and trying to avoid nasty quarrels with the front-runner.
Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday that it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in a move that marks the end of an era for the beleaguered 132-year-old company.
WASHINGTON — Democrats are deeply divided over President Barack Obama’s new rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide insurance for free birth control to their employees amid fresh signs that the administration was scrambling for a way out.
Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield will go to court today in a case that could potentially cut his term short by nine months. Circuit Court Judge Jeff Hollingsworth will hear Littlefield argue for the second time that a recall election should be stopped.
Part of Gov. Bill Haslam's major public safety overhaul would put wife beaters in jail and impose higher fines for the abuse. "We have a problem in our state that we need to address," said Bill Gibbons, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security and head of Haslam's subcommittee on public safety.
Christopher Heaton was proud of his two young sons, always showing off photos of them. “He was always bragging about them,” said Chris York, who worked with 25-year-old Heaton at Advance Auto in Jasper, Tenn.
One of the Chattanooga Zoo's three endangered red pandas has died and another is seriously ill. Zoo officials say all the pandas are over the age of 11 -- geriatric for red pandas since the animals normally live about eight to 10 years.
Twenty-three tax-delinquent properties sold for a total of $67,025 at an auction this week on the courthouse steps in LaFayette, Ga. "Most of them went for pretty near the taxes that were owed on it. We didn't have anybody go crazy," Tax Commissioner Carolyn Walker said.
On the 99th day of Occupy Chattanooga's campout, protesters on the Hamilton County Courthouse lawn are fairly quiet. The ranks are thinning. The picket signs are stacked neatly inside a tent.
Bobby Dunn is usually the first one at the fields of the Harrison Recreation Association, and he'll be the one to turn out the lights after dozens of local children and teens have finished playing baseball.
Gov. Bill Haslam on Thursday acknowledged his plan to give local schools flexibility to increase average class sizes is getting pushback from educators and lawmakers, but he remained optimistic a workable agreement can be reached.
Lawmakers voted Thursday to give themselves a do-over on trying to change the state constitution so the General Assembly can create more charter schools, one day after the measure was rejected.
Asbestos has been removed from the tornado-stricken Blue Springs Elementary School building and now the Bradley County School Board will be seeking bids for demolition of the building.
Two area school systems were among 10 in Tennessee that got part of $50,000 in grants awarded by a national cellphone company foundation to enhance teacher development and pay for training so they can boost student performance.
The fate of a proposed Hamilton County charter school now rests with the Tennessee State Board of Education. Gary Nixon, executive director of the state board, presided over an appeal hearing for SMART Schools Inc., which earlier applied to open a business- and law-themed charter school here.
