The day after winning the Southern Conference tournament in Chattanooga, UTC basketball coach John Shulman praises his Mocs players and discusses the challenge ahead in the NCAA tournament.

The Chattanooga Mocs beat College of Charleston at McKenzie Arena on Monday to become the 2009 Southern Conference champs.

Times Free Press sports columnist John Frierson and sports editor Jay Greeson discuss the Lady Mocs chances in the Southern Conference women's tournament.

Times Free Press sports columnist Darren Epps and sports editor Jay Greeson dissect SEC basketball.

Times Free Press sports columnist David Uchiyama and sports editor Jay Greeson discuss the Chattanooga Mocs basketball team's chances in the Southern Conference tournament.

Late Tuesday, incumbent Leamon Pierce and challenger Andraé McGary appeared headed for an April 14 runoff in the Chattanooga City Council District 8 race.

Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield defeated challenger Rob Healy by a 57-40 percent margin on Tuesday to win his second four-year term in office.

About 85 members of the Georgia National Guard’s 1/108th Cavalry Regiment are set to leave Tuesday for predeployment training at Camp Shelby, Miss., prior to the unit's departure for Afghanistan. Their families, friends and supporters held a sendoff for them at several sites in Dalton, Ga.

Times Free Press sports columnist Darren Epps and sports editor Jay Greeson dissect SEC basketball.

More officer presence at night is a key to fighting crime in Chattanooga, said J.T McDaniel, a candidate for the City Council District 9 open seat.

Better shopping and restaurant opportunites will help revive poor areas of Chattanooga, according to Quenston Coleman, a candidate for City Council District 9 open seat.

Built in 1926, Delta Queen is a National Historic Landmark. The boat, the last traditional river steamboat, left its winter home in New Orleans several days ago and has churned through the Gulf of Mexico, into Mobile Bay and up the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway before reaching the Tennessee River. Once permanently docked in Chattanooga, it will be turned into a hotel, owners say.

Chattanooga City Councilman Manny Rico, seeking re-election in District 7, says that "English is the language of success."

Chattanooga truck driver Mahmood Abdullah, seeking to unseat Councilman Manny Rico in District 7, says the law should be applied equally to all people.

Take a tour of the Delta Queen from the boat's Fall, 2007 visit to the Scenic City.

Tana Patrick chooses between playing football for Tennessee, Auburn and Alabama.

A rash of burglaries in her neighborhood, among other issues, is motivating local businesswoman Pam Ladd to run for the open Chattanooga City Council District 3 seat, she said.