Arlington, Virginia — Honor flights have flown nearly a quarter of a million veterans to the nation's capital to visit the monuments built in their honor. Safe to say no veteran has felt prouder, or happier, than 100-year-old Jack Eaton,…
Community members are mourning the loss of a Chattanooga boy. They say he took his own life after being bullied.
For immediate help if you are in a crisis, call the toll-free National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. All calls are confidential. Eugene, Oregon — When a mental health-related 911 call comes in,…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (WDEF) - A family is seeking closure for their son who was left to die in a fiery car crash. "He killed my son and i feel some kind of way about it. I just want him to…
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would make animal cruelty a federal felony. The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, or PACT Act, bans abusive behavior including crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating, impaling and other bodily injury toward…
"How did we get to this point? Where 4th graders feel like they have to take their own life?"
A man wanted for murder in Alabama gets shot in Chattanooga.
The Minister's Treehouse — reportedly the largest treehouse in the world — has burned to the ground after a raging fire. The Tennessee landmark went up in flames late Tuesday night, and officials were unable to save it. Cumberland County…
New York — Two business associates of Rudy Giuliani pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges they illegally funneled foreign donations to political committees supporting President Trump and other Republicans. Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, wearing dark suits and…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - A local flower shop is spreading some positivity by Petaling it Forward. Today Chattanooga florist is teaming up with florists from all around the country to hand out flowers to strangers as random acts of kindness. This…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - After several days of debates over teacher raises...a school board member appeared before the Hamilton county commission this morning to ask that they work together. School board member Tiffanie Robinson told commissioners that she was inspired to…
Google said it has achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing research, saying an experimental quantum processor has completed a calculation in just a few minutes that would take a traditional supercomputer thousands of years. The findings, published Wednesday in the…
Boeing exec Kevin McAllister ousted Boeing on Wednesday reported a sharp decline in revenue and profits as it continues to struggle with the fallout from two deadly crashes of its 737 Max airliner. The company said that net income fell to…
DUNLAP, Tenn. (WDEF) - "A citizen said she received three different calls from a local number where they had spoofed a local number where it would look like it was local here that it was calling her asking for donations…
Birmingham police said late Tuesday that Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney, the 3-year-old girl who had been missing for 10 days, was dead, and that her remains were found inside a dumpster. "We found the remains of a child that we believe…
A gunman and his accomplice have been arrested in a shooting just outside a Northern California high school Tuesday that wounded a teenager and locked down thousands of students and staffers in a three-school complex for hours, authorities said. Witnesses…
Trump compares impeachment to "lynching" Washington — In extraordinary testimony that left lawmakers stunned, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine on Tuesday testified that U.S. aid to Ukraine was explicitly tied to the country's willingness to investigate President Trump's political…
A Chatsworth Elementary School teacher says education is her calling, and she's doing everything she can to help her students. That's why she has earned this week's Golden Apple Award.
As Facebook's CEO prepares to face Congress, the push to break up the company appears to have reached a fever pitch. A probe by state attorneys general to investigate possible antitrust abuses now counts 47 participants, New York Attorney General…
For years, the quality of the air Americans breathe had been steadily improving, but that trend is showing signs of unraveling thanks in part to U.S. economic gains that come with potentially deadly ramifications. After a seven-year stretch of improvement,…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (WDEF) -A pediatric cancer foundation that helps sick kids gets robbed. Two SUVs were stolen from the Austin Hatcher Foundation. The president of the foundation says this happened early Monday morning. She says the robbers jumped the fenced…
Actress Lori Loughlin and several other parents were hit with additional charges in the college cheating scandal on Tuesday. The U.S. Attorney's office said Loughlin, her husband and nine others are now accused of conspiring to commit federal program bribery,…
California and New York City filed suit Tuesday against the U.S. Postal Service to stop tens of thousands of cigarette packages from being mailed from foreign countries to U.S. residents, alleging overseas smugglers are engaging in tax evasion while postal…
The body of 29 year old Edward Charles Garcia was found in the vehicle, but a little girl was rescued by witnesses.