At a local park where children were playing on a nearby playground, an attempted robbery during a drug deal turned fatal Thursday night, resulting in the city's 16th homicide of the year.
A locker at the Westside Boxing Club on Central Avenue is filled with at least 100 small notebooks, each including the picture of a local boxer, the places he has traveled, and fights won and lost.
A Hamilton County Sheriff's Office corrections officer was booked Tuesday into the jail where he works on charges of aggravated assault, domestic assault and kidnapping.
Even before two black men were fatally shot by police in July, complaints about racial inequality in Chattanooga frequently reached the local NAACP chapter, the group's president said.
After Chattanooga police came up with a suspect in last year's fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man, they couldn't arrest him, even though they knew where he was.
The Chattanooga chapter of the NAACP will meet with the City Council’s public safety committee Tuesday to address what it perceives as racial profiling in the community.
Though a state Supreme Court ruling has made it easier for police to search property of those on probation or parole, local law enforcement officials say they’ll continue to get warrants and have reasonable cause before they search.