Praise Lord, pass ammo: Tennessee church’s gun class seen as safety tool, evangelism effort

Praise Lord, then pass ammo at church gun class

Carmike piles on plush for moviegoers, seeks environmental certification at new theater

New movie theater mixes plush with enviro-friendly

Groups challenge discharge of heavy metals from TVA’s Kingston Plant into Clinch River

Groups challenge TVA river discharge from plant

Unum 3Q profit doubles, as year-ago qtr included $109M investment loss; company backs outlook

Unum profit doubles as investment results improve

Tennessee-based EPB gets $111 million of smart grid money from federal stimulus program

Tenn.-based EPB gets big chunk of smart grid tech

Volkswagen to start accepting applications for production jobs at new Chattanooga plant

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Volkswagen will start accepting applications Oct. 26 for about 1,200 production jobs at its new plant in Chattanooga, with the first hiring set early next year.

Tenn. man swept into culvert, Atlanta-area commuters bogged down as storms soak Southeast

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A man swept away by floodwater in Chattanooga is presumed drowned as heavy rain and thunderstorms spawned flood warnings from eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina into north Georgia, including the Atlanta area.

A 2-minute drill: Tenn. firm to build portable shelters that set up quickly by pushing button

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A defense contractor said Tuesday it will start building portable shelters for natural disasters and war zones that quickly unfold like a Transformer toy.

Tenn. police justify 59 shots from 6 officers as ’suicide by cop’; man’s family wants probe

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Alonzo Heyward carried a rifle around his low-rent neighborhood one day last month, ranting about suicide and ignoring the pleas of friends for hours before six Chattanooga police officers surrounded him on his front porch and decided it had to end.

Veterans who may have been exposed to infectious body fluids prepare to file claims against VA

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — An attorney is preparing to ask the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to pay disability benefits and damages for hospital mistakes that may have exposed veterans to infectious body fluids — a complaint that he said could ultimately multiply into many more such demands.

Lawyer says veterans waiting, but VA silent on any compensation for colonoscopy mistakes

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — An attorney for veterans potentially exposed to HIV and other infections by colonoscopies at three Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals said his clients are waiting to hear if they will be compensated for mistakes that led to congressional hearings and new VA spending on patient safety.

VA to tell House panel about mistakes with equipment used for colonoscopies, other procedures

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A congressional panel is pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs to disclose on Tuesday whether non-sterile equipment that may have exposed 10,000 veterans to HIV and other infections was isolated to three Southeast hospitals or is part of a wider problem.

US House panel to hear how equipment mistakes were made at 3 VA hospitals, risking infections

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — After months of health worries for more than 10,000 veterans, officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs are expected to face a congressional panel Tuesday and explain how mistakes at three hospitals in the Southeast may have exposed patients to HIV and other infectious diseases.

Congressional panel to analyze VA hospital mishaps that put patients at risk of HIV, hepatitis

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A congressional panel will question Department of Veterans Affairs officials about mistakes that put patients at risk of possible exposure to HIV and other infectious body fluids at three VA hospitals.

VW, Kia rev up new assembly plants in the South while auto industry wallows in red ink

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Volkswagen AG executives celebrate raising the first walls of their $1 billion assembly plant Thursday in Chattanooga, Tenn., giving them a chance to smile amid the auto industry’s global despair.

NCAA to review Chattanooga complaint about loss from hosting tourney games with no local teams

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Chattanooga has complained to the NCAA, saying it lost money hosting women’s tournament games because the teams had no local ties.

VA reports a 4th positive HIV test in wake of dirty hospital equipment, vets grow frustrated

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Thousands of veterans were at first shocked to learn they should get blood tests for HIV and hepatitis because three hospitals might have treated them with unsterile equipment. Now, just a couple of months after the Department of Veterans Affairs issued the dire warnings, veterans are growing frustrated by the lack of information from the tightlipped federal agency.

VA: 4th patient tests positive for HIV since agency said vets were exposed to dirty equipment

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Department of Veterans Affairs says a fourth person exposed to dirty equipment at its hospitals has tested positive for HIV.