Mary Fortune

A transparency activist shared information online Saturday indicating a massive trove of data stolen from the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce is up for sale.

Bella Hampton knew she had a knack for all things mechanical, but she never imagined she’d get to turn her tendency to take things apart into a career.

Every year, Tennessee penitentiaries release nearly 300 people a week who have served their sentences.

The idea for the Chattanooga Football Club was born in 2008, when Thomas Clark, a former soccer player with the U.S. Air Force Academy and a Chattanooga transplant, tried out with an amateur soccer team in Birmingham, Alabama.

After more than 25 years in banking, Sue Culpepper jumped to a career in higher education where she helped guide students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga through college and into the business world.

Her startup began with a house fire, took her to the high-profile television pitch show Shark Tank, and turned her from an aspiring physician to an inventor and entrepreneur.

As shopping malls went up in sprawling, small-town suburbs, and downtown business districts grew quiet, the buildings sat empty for decades. The soaring ceilings and vast windows, the wide beams of timber, the heavy red brick walls gathered dust.

From the time she was a college student more than 30 years ago, Cheryl Saucier knew she wanted to spend her career supporting people with vision impairments in living active and fulfilling lives.

Local logistics companies are hiring at fever pitch.

* Year established: 2016