Win two tickets to a Tivoli concert by founding Steely Dan member Donald Fagen by "liking" Chattanoogan.com on Facebook and/or Twitter or letting us know you already have. Then enter the contest by emailing us at news@chattanoogan.com. Fagan was one of the masterminds behind the highly successful jazz-pop band that was launched in 1970. He began a solo career in 1981. ... (click for more)

 An investigation that brought the Patrol and Criminal Investigation Divisions of the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office to a location in the 2300 block of No Pone Road resulted in the recovery of two stolen motorcycles and a stolen truck. Acting on information that a 2015 Honda motorcycle reported stolen last June in Bradley County could be at that location, deputies found ... (click for more)

I was pleased when I discovered a survey available from the Signal Mountain School System Viability Committee.  I thought the survey for “Concerned Citizens” would let me express my opinions about an independent Signal Mountain school system.  I was wrong. It appears the real goal of this survey is to encourage complaints about the schools to justify creating an independent ... (click for more)

About 35 years ago some professors at UT-Chattanooga were working with a pretty big monkey, an orangutan named Chantek, with the notion they could teach the primate to talk. It even made Walter Cronkite’s news.  The claim was that in the nine years the monkey spent at UTC it learned one hundred and 50 words in sign language and I know that to be a total lie. The whole thing ... (click for more)

  Tennessee’s football team put fall practice No. 8 in the books Tuesday at Haslam Field in Knoxville. The emerging theme in camp so far has been competition among all the position groups. “Everyone is putting their identity on video,” coach Butch Jones said. “For the individuals who are gaining an inordinate amount of repetition, that's a great opportunity. Again, ... (click for more)

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga head coach Jim Foster will get an early look at his team when the Mocs head to Canada for three games.   "Vancouver is one of the great cities," Chattanooga head coach Jim Foster said. "There is a lot of diversity. I think it will be neat for them to see the people sort of flow together, get together and function.   "They ... (click for more)