Bluff City News

Mark Wiedmer, Chattanooga Times Free Press Originally published 11:21 a.m., June 28, 2009 Updated 11:21 a.m., June 28, 2009 Mark July 13 on your calendars.

A recent online survey says the Bluff City is home to two of the top 25 most dangerous communities in the country.

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One day, some time ago, a flying saucer landed on Bruce Cooke's lawn. A little man got out, knocked on the door and asked Cooke to exchange his alien money for the real thing.

When the economy hit the skids, safety experts predicted an alarming increase in home burglaries.

Ten people are facing a total of 58 drug charges for their involvement in what Sullivan County Sheriff Wayne Anderson described this morning as a local ring of mid-level drug dealers under investigation for several months.

Making Memphis music is the sole purpose behind the House of Blues Studios, here in the Bluff City.

Authorities have captured an inmate Tuesday about 24 hours after he walked away from a work crew in Morgan County.

A local meteorologist said voters will find clear skies and 70 degree temperatures when they hit the polls to cast their ballots in today's Bristol and Bluff City elections.

For the first time, Hollywood will have the rights to make a movie about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Margaret Feierabend City Council - David Shumaker School Board - Kelly Buskell School Board - Nelson Pyle School Board - Tony Turner School Board - Gwen Ellis Bluff City: Mayor: - Todd Malone Board of Mayor & Aldermen - Robert Miller - Irene Wells Reader Reactions It is a sad time when people who are eligible to vote will not go and exercise ...

Today is Election Day for municipal races in Bristol, Tenn., and Bluff City, Tenn.

The Church of God and Christ has officially left the Bluff City. The Memphis Convention and Tourism Bureau received an official letter of cancellation 2010, 11 and 12 COGIC Conventions.

Omaha, Nebraska native, Anthony Collins and his family are experienced "road warriors." So, on their first vacation trip to Memphis to attend the famed World Championship Bar-Be-Que Cooking Contest, Collins & Company were hoping to add to their collection of travel memories.

The Bristol Herald Courier has won 10 journalism awards, including three by reporter Daniel Gilbert, from the Tennessee Associated Press Managing Editors.

They might have been a little groggy considering it was early and they were coming off a weekend, but you can always count of the Peabody Hotel ducks to still perform on cue when need be.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - After weeks of playing cat and mouse with reporters, Memphis Mayor, Willie Herenton, was ready to return to center-stage. To at least talk about possibly assuming a lead role in a yet unscripted project with a working title of "Mr. Herenton Goes to Washington." In a downtown interview Herenton admitted, "While there's still a lot ...

Depending on whom you ask, Jack "Oblivian" Yarber is either a rock legend or an absolute unknown.

Viviana Stewart was on the second floor of her house, doing some work on the computer, when Bluff City crime knocked on her door.

On a beautiful and warm spring Saturday morning, Randy McKinney and a large group of fellow farmers gathered together on the 16 acres on Slimp Branch Road that Randy rents to grow grass and corn for his five horses.