A Chattooga County teenager was clocked traveling at a very high rate of speed, which lead to his arrest earlier this week.
A Summerville reported last week that his identity has been used by someone else to file taxes.
According to Catoosa County Jail records, a Chattooga County woman was arrested for 2 hit and runs, all while driving under the influence with her 2 small children in the car.
Proving that anything can indeed be used as a weapon, one Chattooga County man used a rolling pin to beat a car during a domestic dispute last Friday morning,
A significant sum of counterfeit bills were used to make a purchase at a local Dollar General earlier this week.
An expired drive out tag, along with improper tag lights led to the arrest of an Armuchee man over the weekend, according to the Chattooga County Sheriffs Office.
A traffic stop near West Halls Valley Road and Highway 27 lead to a man being arrested for a DUI, among other charges.
Hit and runs seem to be the theme of the week, with multiple cases being reported by local law enforcement over the last week.
A Ringgold soldier who went missing decades ago was finally laid to rest Saturday, May 22, in Ringgold.
U.S. Army Corporal Henry Lewis Helms, after being missing in action for seven decades and presumed killed in action while fighting in the Korean War, received full honors with funeral rites and burial.
Funeral services for Helms were held the Wilson Funeral Home. Burial followed at Anderson Memorial Gardens in Ringgold.
Born Sept. 19, 1926, in DeKalb County, Alabama, Cpl. Helms and his family moved to Ringgold during the 1940s. Helms enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the last year of World War II. Helms reenlisted in the U.S. Army on Aug. 12, 1948. During the Korean War Helms served with Dog Company (D Co), 1st Battalion (Bn), 32nd Infantry (1/32INF), 7th Infantry Division (ID).
On Dec. 2, 1950, Helms, then 24 years old, was reported missing in action near the Chosin Reservoir in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Battle of Chosin Reservoir was a brutal, 17-day fight in frigid weather conditions that claimed the lives of 3,163 U.S. Army personnel, 4,385 U.S. Marines and 2,812 South Koreans. Almost 30,000 Chinese personnel perished.
During a June 2018 meeting, North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un promised then-President Donald Trump he would repatriate American remains collected from the Korean War. In August 2018, the United States received 55 boxes of remains for scientific analysis.
Regina Worley, Helm’s niece, said her family was contacted to provide DNA samples to help confirm his identity. Helms remains were positively identified in box number 39.
Helms is memorialized at the Ringgold City Hall MIA/POW monument and in the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.