NASHVILLE — A Maine man has been arrested on child pornography and other charges after he talked a McMinn County girl into sending him nude or sexually explicit images of herself, the TBI said in a news release.

Volkswagen of America Foundation today said it will donate $250,000 to the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity to assist with the disaster relief after the tornadoes in Oklahoma.

A traffic stop by a Bridgeport, Ala., police officer on Tuesday led to the discovery of 35 4.5-ounce bags of alleged marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Visitors who took whitewater rafting excursions on the Ocoee River last year pumped $43.8 million into the economies of the 30 counties that surround the river, according to an economic impact study released today.

The Dallas Bay Volunteer Fire Department extinguished a fire this morning at 1031 Old Mill Lane.

The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office and East Ridge Police Department have announced they will be conducting “Sobriety Checkpoints” on May 31.

The Chattanooga City Council on Tuesday night approved in a 9-0 vote a three-month extension for the 2013-14 fiscal year budget.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Chattanooga Christian's Brandt McGregor finished third in the Class A/AA state decathlon Tuesday at Middle Tennessee State University.

NASHVILLE — Gov. Bill Haslam on Tuesday named Jim Henry as the permanent head of the state's troubled Department of Children's Services.

A coalition of neighborhood groups plans to go to the Chattanooga City Council and Chattanooga-Hamilton County Transportation Planning Organization and ask those panels to stop a road project through Lincoln Park.