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A gunman who wounded an 18-year-old last year outside the Eastdale Recreation Center was shot twice Monday night while he was standing on a porch in the 1900 block of Walker Street, according to Chattanooga police.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam today named Debra Payne the new commissioner of the Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities while Jim Henry is becoming the permanent commissioner at the Department of Children’s Services. The appointments are effective June. 1.

Lookout Mountain Elementary School 5th grader Della Joyner Perry will be recognized today at 1:30 p.m. by Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger.

A 20-year-old man was shot twice while standing on a porch in Chattanooga last night, police said.

Downtown Chattanooga parking meters will not be enforced and need not be paid on Memorial Day, the Chattanooga Parking Authority said in a news release.

Chattanooga police responded to a shooting in Highland Park on Monday night.

1. Newspaper reporter — Median annual pay of $36,000 and projected job decline of 6 percent by 2020

The Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. has reported that the winner of $1 million in Saturday’s record Powerball drawing bought their ticket at the Tobacco & Beer Mart at 6025 E. Brainerd Road.

Memorial Hospital has received an award for its exceptional care of heart attack patients, according to a news release.

Meredith Ruffner has been named by St. Peter’s Episcopal School to serve as interim head of school for the 2013-2014 academic year.

The man suspected in the slaying of a woman early Sunday is a twice-convicted rapist and lives at the house where the attack took place, according to the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry.

Crime Stoppers and Chattanooga police are seeking information on the whereabouts of James Demetrius Grayson, according to a news release.

A community outreach is set for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday as part of Chattanooga's Public Works Week.

This afternoon’s storms have downed trees and flooded streets and roads throughout the tri-state region but no severe damage had been reported as of 4 p.m.

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office is looking for Terry Releford in connection with a woman's suspicious death early this morning.

He has dressed up like Darth Vader. And a Roman centurion. And Santa Claus. And AC/DC’s Angus Young.

Memorable TSSAA Spring Fling performances by area athletes and teams

East Hamilton couldn't get the hits when needed and left 12 baserunners stranded in a season-ending 7-4 baseball loss at Upperman.

A Chattanooga man was stabbed to death late Friday after arguing with another man, police said Saturday.

A Chattanooga man was stabbed to death late Friday after arguing with another man, police said.

The Tennessee Valley Authority celebrated its 80th birthday on Friday, but officials insist America’s biggest government utility shouldn’t be retired or sold off yet even though President Obama has suggested studying the idea.

Soddy-Daisy's Ivy Academy was one of 64 schools in the nation and among two Tennessee schools to win a Green Ribbon School Award from the U.S. Department of Education this year.

A full-scale emergency exercise, including employee evacuation, will take place Wednesday at the Chattanooga Mail Processing and Distribution Center on Shallowford Road.

The Hamilton County Parks and Recreation Department is hosting the third annual "Get Out and Go Night" from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Tennessee Riverpark.

Republican senators from Georgia and South Carolina have called on the Obama administration to continue funding a program to turn weapons-grade plutonium into commercial nuclear reactor fuel, saying that slowing or ending the project would harm international and domestic relationships.

Today: Chattanooga Cactus and Succulent Society, 3 p.m., 3005 Plum Nelly Road, Rising Fawn, Ga. Mark and Stan Hall will show their collection of cactus and succulents.

Chattanooga Police Chief Bobby Dodd will remain in his current position, Mayor Andy Berke said today.

NASHVILLE — Top Safety Department officials led a special memorial service today honoring Tennessee state troopers and other law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty to commemorate National Police Week.

Baggett Road between Poplar Springs and Boyton Drive will be resurfaced next week, weather permitting, according to an announcement by Catoosa County officials.

ATLANTA — Powerball now has the highest jackpot in the game’s history. Georgia Lottery officials announced today that strong sales have bumped Saturday’s Powerball jackpot from an estimated $550 million to an estimated $600 million.

NASHVILLE — State House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick, R-Chattanooga, and another top chamber leader, GOP Caucus Chairman Glen Casada of Franklin, are encouraging fellow House Republicans to back state Rep. Joe Carr’s 4th Congressional District bid.

A full-scale emergency exercise, including employee evacuation, will take place Wednesday at the Chattanooga Mail Processing and Distribution Center on Shallowford Road.

The Cleveland Civitan Club has decided to cancel the Special Olympics scheduled for Saturday, May 18, at Cleveland High School because of the forecast adverse weather conditions.

NASHVILLE — Suck Creek Road will be closed between 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday for state road maintenance workers to repair a slide area, the Tennessee Department of Transportation said in a news release.

The circle at the end of Tremont Street, south of River Street, will be closed Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for the Public Works Week Touch-a-Truck Event.

Joseph “Nick” D. Decosimo, managing principal of the Chattanooga accounting firm of Joseph Decosimo and Co., will join the board of the recently recapitalized First Security Group, Inc., pending regulatory approval.

Marcia Kling, a longtime local television personality at WTVC-NewsChannel 9, announced Thursday she will retire May 30, according to a news release from the station.

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Chattanooga and Pensacola needed extra innings for a third straight night, with the Lookouts prevailing 8-2 with a big 10th-inning eruption after coming up short the previous two games.

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander says President Barack Obama's plan to consider selling the Tennessee Valley Authority has already cost hundreds of millions of dollars — even if the nation's largest public utility is never sold.

NASHVILLE — Generic drug maker Ranbaxy will pay Tennessee $5.53 million under a $500 million national agreement that resolves claims the company sold inferior drugs and made false statements regarding how the drugs were manufactured, State Attorney General Bob Cooper announced Thursday.

The Hamilton County Board of Education moved to renegotiate Superintendent Rick Smith's contract and extend it for another four years.

President Barack Obama has nominated Knoxville attorney Pamela L. Reeves to a judgeship in the Eastern District of Tennessee, according to a White House news release.

Marcia Kling, a longtime local television personality at WTVC-NewsChannel 9, announced today she will retire on May 30th, according to a news release from the station.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation has announced a shift in traffic will be carried out on U.S. 27 south beginning at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Officers, families and community members will gather tonight at 8 for the Chattanooga Area Law Enforcement Memorial Service at 600 Market St.

NASHVILLE — Generic drug maker Ranbaxy will pay Tennessee $5.53 million under a $500 million national agreement that resolves claims the company sold inferior drugs and made false statements regarding how the drugs were manufactured, State Attorney General Bob Cooper announced today.

Transcard LLC,. a financial technology company, is carrying out a nearly $1 million expansion at its Jenkins Road operation that will create 69 new jobs.

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