Fighting Cocks open home schedule with Seymour

The noise level will be that much louder this Friday night at Cocke County’s home opener against Seymour. State Farm Insurance agent Eric Varner (right) gets Big Red head coach Greg Hacker (left) ready for the game after supplying the CCHS cheerleaders with 400 megaphones to be given out to the first 400 fans coming through the Hedrick Field gates on Friday night.

Money tip: Filing insurance claim may not pay off in long run

Christine Moriarty, of Bristol, Vt., paid homeowners-insurance premiums for nearly a decade before she filed a claim. A lightning strike fried her laptop computer. Several years later, she filed a claim for a puff-back of her furnace that left four rooms soot-covered.