August was a big month for Gabriel Adkins.

Follow LIVE coverage of Black Friday 2012 madness in the Chattanooga area. Enter to win an iPad by sending your Black Friday photos and videos to web editor@timesfreepress.com

Doris Roberts, from the popular TV show “Everybody Loves Raymond,” is in Chattanooga today as the celebrity guest at the 2012 Life Boomers & Seniors Expo. Follow live updates from the expo here.

Follow live coverage of Bridal Affair: Enchanted Evening in Chattanooga.

George Waters has been arrested by the Polk County Sheriff's Department and has been charged with three counts of first degree murder.

Follow live coverage of the 2012 She Expo in Chattanooga. Through up-to-the-minute blogging and photos, get updates as Nicholas Sparks, Bill and Giuliana Rancic, Mark Ballas and Cheryl Burke take the stage right here in Chattanooga.

Live blog coverage of today's candidate forum and debate in Chattanooga will be provided from 6 to 8 p.m.

Follow live updates, photos and videos from the inaugural Chattanooga Kidz Expo today.

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is expected to host private and public events in the Chattanooga area today.

Follow live coverage starting at 1 p.m. as Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum visits Chattanooga today.

Follow live coverage of Chattanooga's largest bridal event and expo, Formal Affair, starting at 1 p.m. today at the Chattanooga Convention Center.

Replay live coverage of today's news conference on the Gail Palmgren investigation.

Follow live coverage of a news conference at Mosaic Church on 412 Market St. pertaining to Christmas morning's shootings today at 2 p.m.

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The Times Free Press sends breaking news updates to nearly 75,000 fans and followers through social media every day.

Cleveland State Community College freshman Zach Arden will have a new iPad to use for class and for fun.

Drive directly from Chattanooga into North Carolina and the small town of Murphy is there to greet you when you cross the state line.

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A news conference at the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office at 10 a.m. will discuss the deaths of Michael Hennen, 27, and Hannah Barnes, 19, who were hit by a train on Aug. 22 near Sale Creek.

Follow LIVE blog coverage of the 2011 Life Expo in Chattanooga, featuring special guest Vicki Lawrence, "Mama” on the NBC sitcom 'Mama’s Family.'

Follow live photoblog coverage of Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam's address to Chattanooga from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Haslam is the keynote speaker at the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce annual meeting at the convention center today.

Follow live blog, photo and video coverage from this weekend's She expo in Chattanooga.

Follow live coverage of the fifth annual First Amendment Dinner in Chattanooga starting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Pultizer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett is the guest speaker.

See an album of photos from the midnight Harry Potter premiere in Chattanooga here.

Rick Smith has been voted in as the new superintendent of Hamilton County Schools. Read live blog coverage of the school board meeting and share your thoughts.

Follow live coverage of tonight's festival and share your thoughts and comments.

Follow live blog coverage from the Best of Preps with New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees starting at 7 p.m. at the Chattanooga Convention Center.

Follow LIVE coverage from the grand opening ceremonies of Chattanooga's Volkswagen plant, beginning at 11 a.m.

Follow LIVE updates from the National Manufacturing Summit in Dalton, Ga. from 1-6 p.m. today. Businessman T. Boone Pickens is the featured keynote speaker.

Follow live coverage of the Chattanooga Gun Violence Summit starting at 9 a.m. Paul Helmke, CEO of the Brady Campaign, will be featured at the UTC University Center event.

Follow along as Chattanooga respectfully honors fallen officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty, starting at 11 a.m. at 600 Market St.

Follow live blog coverage of accused cop killer Jesse Mathews' arraignment from Hamilton County Criminal Court starting at 1:30 p.m.

Follow LIVE coverage of tonight's VIP, red-carpet premiere of "Water for Elephants."

Five Times Free Press Facebook fans have randomly been chosen to win tickets to tomorrow's VIP red-carpet premiere of "Water for Elephants."

Join the Times Free Press for LIVE coverage of the groundbreaking ceremonies for Wacker's new $1.45 billion polysilicon plant in Bradley County beginning at 9 a.m.

Lane Kiffin will be receiving a case of Gold Bond powder (famous for fighting jock itch) in the mail soon, courtesy of Times Free Press Facebook fans.

Traffic is now moving, but two wrecks blocked traffic this afternoon on interstates in the Chattanooga area.

A man is in critical condition with life threatening injuries after a hit and run incident Monday night.

Officials with the show say Michael, Cindy and Patrick Sharrock will see their new home sometime between 2 and 6 p.m. today, with as many as 3,000 spectators at the scene. Follow our live blog for moment-by-moment photos and updates.

Follow LIVE blog coverage from the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition work site for photos and updates from the scene.

Follow LIVE blog coverage from the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition work site starting around 8 a.m. for photos and updates from the scene.

The day after Volkswagen released its Star Wars-related Super Bowl commercial on YouTube, the video catapulted to nearly 2 million views and took Twitter by surprise.

Volkswagen's Super Bowl commercial for the Chattanooga-made 2012 Passat become one of the top five subjects discussed worldwide on Twitter Thursday morning.

News conference begins at 3 p.m. Follow our LIVE coverage. Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officials will hold a 3 p.m. news conference to announce details of an arrest in connection with a snake bite that led to the death of a 26-year-old East Ridge man.

A fire broke out in in a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga apartment building Friday night, a university spokesman says.

One Chattanooga area homeowner will get a visit from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’s Ty Pennington on Feb. 13 when the reality show star and his bullhorn tell the family they’ve been selected as the television show’s project house.

A man has been charged with aggravated assault and possession of drug paraphernalia after a stabbing incident yesterday at 7626 Boriss Drive, Chattanooga Police say.

An apartment fire early this morning may have resulted in Chattanooga's first fire-related fatality of 2011, officials say.