Facebook said it removed 3.2 billion fake accounts from its service from April to September, up slightly from 3 billion in the previous six months. Nearly all of the bogus accounts were caught before they had a chance to become…
A firefighter in Massachusetts was killed in the line of duty while he was saving two others. Lieutenant Jason Menard was killed just hours before he was supposed to go to Disney World with his family. As the fire devoured…
In a major milestone, SpaceX engineers fired the powerful abort engines in the company's Crew Dragon astronaut ferry ship Wednesday, carrying out an apparently successful ground test showing the problem that triggered a catastrophic explosion last April has been resolved.…
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new report Wednesday warning that superbugs that resist antibiotics have killed nearly twice as many people as previously thought. Maryann Webb spent three years in unending pain, hooked up to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Latest on a Tennessee lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct (all times local): 3:15 p.m. Tennessee’s House speaker says his chamber’s GOP supermajority will not move forward with a possible expulsion vote of a lawmaker accused…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Hyundai says it will build a pickup-style sport-utility vehicle at its plant in Alabama, which is being enlarged in a $410 million expansion project. The Korean automaker announced the project Wednesday in a statement that says…
DAYTON, Tennessee (WDEF) - Authorities have charged three people in a rash of vehicle burglaries in Rhea County. County and city officers responded to a multiple vehicle burglaries in the Edgewater area of Dayton. They found one suspect with some…
TRENTON, Georgia (WDEF) - Several crews responded to a house fire early this morning in Trenton. Fire fighters responded to Michael's Road off of Highway 301 around one in the morning on Tuesday. The house was still smoking late into…
". . . it's where the industry is going to electric mobility, by the fact that it's the first American built electric car it's phenomenal."
They have also agreed to forfeit private houses, vehicles, bank accounts and personal property to the government..
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - A judge sentenced Joel Harris to five years for an incident where he was shot by police. In June of 2018, Chattanooga Police responded to a disorder call at a Tunnel Boulevard apartment complex. Officers say Harris…
"As heaters are turned on each year, we start to see this."
Nike will stop selling its products through Amazon and instead focus on what it called "more direct, personal relationships" with customers, company officials announced Tuesday. Anyone looking for Nike can still purchase items on the company website, its app, or…
TRENTON, Georgia (WDEF) - A police chase began early this morning in Trenton. A city officer spotted a car reported stolen from Summerville. He chased the vehicle to I 24 in Hamilton County. That's when the stolen car hit the…
A federal judge in Seattle, Washington has ruled illegal the Trump administration's decision last year to allow a Texas company to post blueprints online for 3D-printed guns. Judge Robert Lasnik of the U.S. District Court in Seattle said in his…
The first death occurred in late August, two days before classes began, when an incoming freshman was struck by a car while walking on a freeway near the University of Southern California. In the more than 2 months since, eight…
All social events for fraternities and sororities were suspended at Washington State University after the death Tuesday of a student possibly tied to alcohol. It's the second fraternity-related death in the past week and the fourth college campus death in…
A Texas law that gives families 10 days to find a new hospital if they disagree with doctors who decide to take a patient off life support is once again under the spotlight after a judge halted a Fort Worth…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - On the coldest night of the season so far, some UTC students found out their apartment didn't have any heat. That's as the heater at Boling Apartments broke. They had been out of heat for hours.…
DALTON, Ga. (WDEF) - The Dalton Mayor-Elect is speaking out over an ongoing disagreement with Whitfield County. The governments will be going into mandatory mediation to agree to a Service Delivery Strategy. This comes as the county and city couldn't…
They have seized a suspect vehicle at a Murray County home today.
Company is facing declining milk consumption in the U.S.
DALTON, Georgia (WDEF) - The Dalton Police Department is asking for the public's help to identify three men who robbed a store at gunpoint in September. The incident happened on September 13th at the La Esquinita store at 613 N.…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - A Chattanooga man is arrested after police say he and his son overdosed on heroin. Melton Brown is charged with child abuse and neglect, contributing to the delinquency of a child and reckless endangerment. According to a…