Chattanooga

Dennis Haskins, the Chattanooga-born actor best known for playing Principal Richard Belding on 'Saved by the Bell,' has died at the age of 75, according to a local news report. Tributes are emerging from fans of the 1990s sitcom, where his cheerful principal became one of the show's most recognizable figures.

Tennessee officials have abandoned a Birmingham Highway location as the site for the new Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute, a replacement facility for the aging psychiatric hospital in Chattanooga. The state has not detailed its full reasoning or named an alternative location, and local residents and officials are watching closely for what comes next.

Tennessee officials have abandoned the Birmingham Highway site as the location for the new Moccasin Bend mental health hospital, meaning the project will be moved to another location. The decision affects plans for mental health care facilities serving the Chattanooga area and surrounding region. Details on the alternative site and the reasons behind the change were not provided.

Tennessee officials are stepping back from a proposal to move the Moccasin Bend mental health facility from its Chattanooga site to a location along Birmingham Highway. Local outlet Local 3 News reported the update, prompting renewed public discussion about the hospital's future, access to psychiatric care in the region, and what prompted the state's change of course.

Tennessee state officials have reversed their decision on where to build a replacement hospital for the Moccasin Bend mental health facility in Chattanooga, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press. The change of plans affects the site selected for the new psychiatric hospital, though details on the new preferred location or the reasons for the reversal have not yet been laid out.

State officials have reversed a decision to move the Moccasin Bend mental hospital to a site along Birmingham Highway. The retreat follows local opposition to relocating the Chattanooga psychiatric facility, though officials have not detailed what comes next for the hospital's current campus or future plans.