Publication: North Georgia Times Free Press

First reported 35 mins ago - Updated 22 mins ago - 1 reports

Local bank officer to plead guilty to fraud charge in federal court

The former head of BB&T’s commercial operations has agreed to plead guilty to a federal bank fraud charge and will face sentencing on June 4.Tracy Brown agreed with prosecutors that he bilked the bank out of $475,000 in fraudulent loans he placed in clients’ ... [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 35 mins ago]

Entities: Federal Court, Fraud, BB&T Corporation

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Volkswagen AG

Volkswagen Chattanooga completes 250,000th Passat

Volkswagen's 250,000th Passat rolls off the line, celebrated by employees.Photo by Contributed Photo /Chattanooga Times Free Press.CHATTANOOGA — Volkswagen Chattanooga today announced that VW workers have produced their 250,000th Passat sedan.The car, ... [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Volkswagen AG, Frank Fischer, Volkswagen Passat

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

2 charged in slayings of 6 on Tennessee-Alabama border

FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. — Two men were charged Thursday with six counts each of first-degree murder in last year’s slayings of three women, a man, a toddler and an unborn baby in what authorities described as a dispute over drug dealing.Lincoln County Sheriff ... [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Henry Burrell, Homicide, Parole, Declination

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Man sentenced to 70 months in prison on drug, gun charges

Carl Moore, a 31-year-old who avoided a murder conviction in a 2011 state court trial, was sentenced to 70 months in prison in federal court for marijuana and gun charges today. ... [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 21 hours ago]

Entities: prison, Drugs, Carl Moore

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Six arrested on aggravated robbery charges

Six people are in custody and charged with aggravated robbery after an attempted burglary Wednesday afternoon turned into a carjacking and a robbery spree, Chattanooga police said.Wednesday at about 1:40 p.m., four people were interrupted by the home ... [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Robbery, Mark Lee, Burglary

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Cleveland, Tenn., native survives tornado, his parents thankful he is alive

Photo by WRCB-TV Channel 3 /Chattanooga Times Free Press.CLEVELAND, Tenn. — The parents of a Cleveland, Tennessee native, now living in Moore, Oklahoma, say they are grateful their son is alive. Twenty-five-year-old Jay Brown and his wife were in Moore ... [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, Jay Brown, Steve Taylor

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Chattanooga: Hazlett Lewis Bieter merges with Atlanta firm

One of Chattanooga’s largest accounting firms is merging with Mauldin & Jenkins LLC in Atlanta.Hazlett, Lewis & Bieter, LLC, a 70-year-old Chattanooga accounting firm with 65 partners and employees, announced today that is in joining Mauldin & Jenkins ... [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Atlanta, Health Care, Admission

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Elon leaving SoCon for CAA

Elon University announced today that it was leaving the Southern Conference and taking its athletic programs to the Colonial Athletic Association.The Phoenix, who joined the SoCon in 2003, are the fifth program to leave the SoCon since December, when ... [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Southern Conference, Colonial Athletic Association, John Frierson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Jon Massey hired to coach Ooltewah softball

Jon Massey has been named successor to Norma Nelson as softball coach at Ooltewah High.Massey, who has been at the school for the past 12 years, has served as a football assistant and head baseball coach. He is an Ooltewah alumnus."With his background ... [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Jim Jarvis

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

Chattanooga police looking for Hixson Mapco robbery suspect

Chattanooga police are looking for a man they say robbed a Mapco at 5500 Hwy 153 in Hixson earlier this month.Photo by Contributed Photo /Chattanooga Times Free Press.Chattanooga police are looking for a man they say robbed a Mapco at 5500 Hwy 153 in ... [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Cash Robbery, Police, Crime

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Unum boosts dividend 11.5 percent

McCarthy to retire as chief operating officerfont sizeview bio »One of the Unum office buildings is seen from the Lookout Street parking garage in downtown Chattanooga.Photo by John Rawlston.Unum Group is boosting its stock dividend this year by another ... [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Unum Group, Dividend, DIVIDEND RATE, Stock Dividend

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Dalton jobless rate falls to 10.2 percent in April

Unemployment in Dalton, Ga., fell last month to its lowest monthly level since 2008, but the 10.2 percent jobless rate in metropolitan Dalton in April was still the highest among Georgia’s 14 biggest metro areas.The Georgia Department of Labor said today ... [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - May 23 2013]

Entities: Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Georgia Department of Labor

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"Two years ago our team members had just learned to build cars," said Frank Fischer, CEO and Chairman of Volkswagen Chattanooga. "Today we celebrate a quarter of a million Volkswagen Passats from Chattanooga. I am very proud of this team."

Volkswagen Chattanooga completes 250,000th Passat [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 13 hours ago]

"It's very hard to wrap our mind around. I know the pictures and the video that they sent, it's just like rubble about two or three feet high. It's just like there's nothing there. It's demolished" says Steve Taylor, Jay's dad

Cleveland, Tenn., native survives tornado, his parents thankful he is alive [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 14 hours ago]

...Luker further stated that, "The services we offer include a strong focus on traditional areas of audit and tax as well as many specialty areas like litigation support, healthcare reimbursement consulting, and business valuation services."

Chattanooga: Hazlett Lewis Bieter merges with Atlanta firm [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 18 hours ago]

"With his background in baseball and his work ethic, he'll be fine," Ooltewah athletic director Jim Jarvis said. "His work ethic is what initially attracted us to Jon and caused us to offer him the position."

Jon Massey hired to coach Ooltewah softball [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - 20 hours ago]

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