Chattanooga News

James Gandolfini , who gained fame playing a memorable mafia boss on HBO's "The Sopranos" by giving the role a contemporary twist of visiting a therapist for middle-age anxieties, died after suffering a possible heart attack in Italy, an HBO spokeswoman and the actor's managers said Wednesday.

Coverage through the Tennessee Municipal League lapsed at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. Athens Insurance owner Allen Carter said he received a letter from TML stating that the city did not meet the "long term results needed" for coverage to continue.

No television, no problem! Stream our newscasts LIVE at 9 pm. Tonight on FOX 17 - Eric Alvarez : The fire that claimed the lives of four people including two children has sparked change in the small community of Carthage.

Fort Oglethorpe resident Glen Shavers sits in front of his wife Helen in a wheelchair that was given to him by the Vietnam Veterans of America chapter 203 in Chattanooga, Tenn.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Governor Bill Haslam said chief deputy Claude Ramsey is retiring at the end of August to spend more time with his family in Chattanooga.

An Eastern box turtle was among the burrowing animals that visited the library's summer reading program.

The victim, Demetrice Carson, 24, had been shot in the hand and was transported to a local hospital via a personally owned vehicle.

A man who was convicted in the rape of a 15-year-old girl in New York State has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for not registering as a sex offender after moving to Niota, Tn.

A man was shot Monday night after he told police he was trying to help his friend who was surrounded by four young black males.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol's Chattanooga District on Tuesday announced preliminary statistics from the 2013 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Coffee County last Wednesday, June 12 through Monday, June 17. State troopers worked more than 5,900 hours over the six-day period.

Blake Strickland, center, president/CEO of the Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union based in Chattanooga, was recently inducted into the Tennessee Credit Union Hall of Fame.

Doctors' best efforts couldn't save 35-year-old Kima Evans' life after he was ambushed and shot repeatedly on Jan. 13, 2012, prosecutors said Tuesday in Hamilton County Criminal Court.

The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees in October will take up a plan to lease the natural gas rights on the 8,600-acre Cumberland Forest in Morgan and Scott counties.

Dominick Gormanson, 20, has been charged in the June 29, 2012, traffic death of Christopher Blake Hicks, 20, of Ringgold.

The management firm that operates the Patten Towers said the fire-damaged facility may be ready for city inspectors as early as Thursday or Friday, city officials said.

The Soup Kitchen restaurant, known for its home-style touch and made from scratch, always fresh cuisine, has named Chattanooga as a priority city for its 2013 franchise development plan to open multiple franchise locations in the Middle and East Tennessee region.

Riverbend 2013 has come and gone, yet my semi-famous Riverbend Report Card is anxiously awaited by those that care about humanity, world peace, and the posi-traction rear axle.

I'm betting the chances are good you overlooked a story in Monday's editions of the Chattanooga Times Free Press about our newest heroes in Franklin County.

After a weeklong deferral , Chattanooga City Council members will consider funding construction of a new $1.4 million fire station in Eastlake.

The Blueberry Festival is the celebration of all things blueberry; blueberry pies, blueberry donuts, blueberry plants, blueberry soda, blueberry preserves and jellies, blueberry chutney, and even blueberry beer and it will be at the Chattanooga Market on Sunday.