Randall Higgins covers news in Cleveland, Tenn., for the Times Free Press.
He started work with the Chattanooga Times in 1977 and joined the staff of the Chattanooga Times Free Press when the Free Press and Times merged in 1999.
Randall has covered Southeast Tennessee, Northwest Georgia and Alabama. He now covers Cleveland and Bradley County and the neighboring region.
Randall is a Cleveland native. He has bachelor’s degree from Tennessee Technological University.
His awards include a 1977 Golden Press Card Award from Sigma Delta Chi (Society of Professional Journalists) for coverage of the Melisha Gibson child abuse and murder case. He worked for the Cleveland Daily Banner from 1972 to 1977.
Contact Randall at 423-314-1029 or rhiggins@timesfreepress.com.
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The district attorney handling the probe into a Bradley County Sessions Court judge said Thursday the FBI has asked for information in the case.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Bradley County General Sessions Court Judge Sheridan Randolph is the subject of a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation probe.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — A section of Spring Place Road near the Georgia line will be closed beginning Tuesday for bridge replacements over the Conasauga River.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — The long quest for a Southeast Tennessee veterans home here inched closer to reality after Gov. Bill Haslam included a key piece of funding for the facility in his budget.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — A preliminary plan to widen one of Cleveland's busiest intersections, North Ocoee at 25th streets, got its first public viewing Tuesday evening.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- Cleveland city school board and council members met over lunch Monday to decide on a new school location: Hardwick Field or Hardwick Farm.
Anyone on misdemeanor probation here but with an outstanding warrant for not paying fines is getting a chance to make it right without going back to jail.
Saturday was a big day for Autumn. It was her eighth birthday. The Tennessee Aquarium hosted her and her family -- brothers Koby and Ryan and parents Ryan and Sonya Duggan -- for the special day.
The city received a record amount of federal grant money in the 2010-11 fiscal year, according to the latest audit. Ken Lay from the accounting firm Arnett, Kirksey, Kimsey, Pierce and Lay presented the annual audit to the Cleveland City Council this week.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — City school board members suffered a sticker shock Wednesday. The estimated cost to replace the aging heating and air system with a water source heat pump system for the older part of Cleveland High School, the east wing, is more than $1.3 million, according to Associated Architectural Services.
