News - Friday, November 13, 2026

Believe it or not, there was a time when we didn’t have every Thanksgiving tip and trick available at the click of a mouse or the swipe of a finger.

We had to gather our Turkey Day knowledge the old-fashioned way: by watching television.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is moving forward with plans to offer two 90-credit-hour bachelor’s degrees designed for law enforcement and corrections professionals. The proposed Police Science and Corrections Science programs would provide a shorter, potentially more affordable alternative to traditional 120-credit-hour degrees.

The Bethlehem Center will host its annual fundraiser Saturday beginning at 6 p.m. at the Unum Suite at Erlanger Park, 2587 Chestnut St., Chattanooga. The event will feature dinner, drinks, live music and a live auction. Keynote speaker Jon Johnson will discuss how his involvement in building a baseball field at Howard High School demonstrated the power of investing in communities. Proceeds will support The Bethlehem Center’s educational, leadership development and community assistance programs, including Read to Lead Academy, The Beth’s Farm and Client Choice Food Pantry. Sponsorships, tables and individual tickets are available at thebeth.org/dinner-of-champions.

The Tennessee Aquarium is launching an expanded veterinary program that includes construction of a $5 million animal hospital and new educational partnerships designed to train future veterinarians and veterinary technicians.

The initiative builds on the Aquarium’s 34 years of experience in aquatic animal care and establishes partnerships with the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine (UTCVM) in Knoxville and Chattanooga State Community College’s Veterinary Technology Program.

A confrontation between two motorists in Hamilton County might have ended with little more than frayed nerves and a few choice words. Instead, it ended with gunfire, a wounded man and bullets striking nearby homes.

Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the 400 block of Fuller Lane in the Bakewell community Oct. 31 after a reported road rage incident escalated into a shooting, HCSO officials say.

Preserving wealth requires asking different questions from the ones that built it. Once you’ve accumulated meaningful assets, the focus shifts from growth alone toward stewardship, or keeping what you’ve built, directing it purposefully and making sure it continues to serve the people and causes that matter most to you. 

By Sheryl Rowling | Morningstar 

A successful retirement depends on income, spending, taxes, and flexibility, not a seven-figure balance.

You’re nearing retirement, but you haven’t saved $1 million. That doesn’t mean you can never retire. Here are eight financial do’s and don’ts for savers with a six-figure nest egg.

With the Tennessee Titans’ bye landing pretty much in the middle of the season, let’s do a midterm report card on where things stand in Robert Saleh’s first season at the helm.

Obviously, with the Titans at 1-7 on the season, there won’t be many guys on the honor roll for a team that has been the worst in the league over the past couple of years and might be hard-pressed to even match the three wins they scored in 2024 and 2025.

There are plenty of three-row SUVs on sale, but few can match the extroverted style of the Dodge Durango. With its prominent chin, bright paint colors and hood scoop, the Durango forgoes sleekness for six-pack muscle. Dodge is even doubling down on the muscle theme by making a V-8 engine standard on every 2027 Durango.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says it has returned more than $12 billion, or almost 99%, of the revenue obtained from the sales of Venezuelan oil since it ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro in January.

In a report released Thursday by the State Department, the accounting firm KPMG said the sales of Venezuelan crude, along with minor amounts of gold, minerals and fertilizer, produced $12.26 billion. Almost all of the money has been returned to Venezuela under the terms of a broad energy deal reached with the country's interim authorities, according to the report.

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market shook Thursday, but it largely absorbed big swings for Nvidia and oil prices and finished with relatively modest losses. The moves suggested Wall Street sees limited fallout for the artificial intelligence industry, which carries immense influence on the market, despite the sudden fall of one of its biggest evangelists.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned from his top post at the chipmaker he co-founded, after reports of the tech titan's extramarital affairs came into the spotlight this week.

One of those relationships has raised national security concerns. The New York Times reported that Huang had an affair with a businesswoman U.S. intelligence suspects to be a Chinese spy, which Beijing denies. Separately, the outlet and later others found Huang was said to have had another affair with an Nvidia executive who reported to him directly — compounding calls for him to step down.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday directed Vice President JD Vance to shift his focus away from the Iran war and instead devote himself to fighting what the president says is corruption and crime in Democratic-controlled cities and states.