Chris Carroll covers politics for the Times Free Press.
A Chattanooga native, he graduated from Red Bank High School in 2005 and earned a bachelor’s degree in history from East Tennessee State University in 2009.
Chris has investigated violent crime, hospitals, Red Bank politics and East Ridge politics since joining the newspaper in January 2010.
For a jailhouse interview story with accused murderer Antonio Henry, he won a third place Tennessee Associated Press Managing Editors daily deadline reporting award. The same story won the Golden Press Card Breaking News Reporting Award of Merit.
Chris was an intern at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart during college.
Contact Chris at 423-757-6610 or ccarroll@timesfreepress.com.
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The Hamilton County Democratic Party has apologized for dubbing Republican congressional opponents “Do-Nothing Chuck, Little Prince Wamp and the Milkman.”
Dairy mogul Scottie Mayfield on Friday became the second unexpected challenger to U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, who has spent four months waging a primary battle against Weston Wamp, the 24-year-old son of his immediate predecessor.
Scottie Mayfield, the president of the dairy company that bears his name, said he’ll challenge U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann in the 3rd Congressional District GOP primary.
Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi criticized presidential campaigns and the reporters who cover them during a speech at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on Wednesday, describing connections some in the audience hadn't heard befor
Forty percent of U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann's total re-election contributions of more than $700,000 came from political action committees, a fact one of his primary opponents pounced upon Wednesday.
Thirty-five percent of Hamilton County high school students spend at least five hours a day watching television, playing video games and scouring the Internet, according to new survey results.
A muddy avalanche shut down Signal Mountain's W Road on Saturday, blocking one of the mountain's main thoroughfares. The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office first announced a rock slide Friday at 8:40 p.m.
A five-member parent committee will recommend cuts and fundraising ideas for financially troubled Richard Hardy Memorial School in South Pittsburg, Tenn.
Weston Wamp began his congressional campaign by raising more money than his father ever raised during a three-month period.
To hear Hamilton County Democratic Party Vice Chairman Rodney Strong tell it, "Do-Nothing Chuck, Little Prince Wamp and maybe The Milkman" can be defeated.
