News 12 Then: Looking back at 1988 Bessie Smith Strut
This story originally aired on WDEF TV in June of 1988.
North Korea summit: Kim Jong Un and Trump hold historic meeting
CBS News June 11, 2018, 5:59 PM President Trump and Kim Jong Un will meet for the first time in an unprecedented summit in Singapore on Tuesday. The stakes are high -- the U.S. seeks nothing less than the complete…
New Rhea Heritage and Scopes Trial Museum opens
People who attended opening for the new Rhea Heritage and Scopes trial Museum in Dayton say they are glad this piece of history will be told to future generations.
Dennis Rodman floats possibility of meeting with Kim in Singapore
SINGAPORE -- Former NBA star Dennis Rodman arrived in Singapore around midnight Monday, hours before President Trump is set to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first time. Rodman told reporters at Changi airport that he came…
CCA Riverbend Tabletops
Students from the Center for Creative Arts created some special artwork you may see during the Riverbend Festival.
United flight diverted after bomb threat found onboard
A United Airlines flight traveling from Rome to Chicago was diverted to Ireland due to a "potential security concern," the airlines said in a statement. United flight 971, a Boeing 767-300, landed in Shannon, Ireland, on Monday, and Irish police…
Trump administration sanctions Russian firms, citing cyberattacks
The Trump administration on Monday slapped sanctions on several Russian companies and businessmen for engaging in cyberattacks and assisting Russia's military and intelligence services with other malicious activities. The Treasury Department said it was imposing sanctions on five Russian firms…
Kim Jong Un brought his own toilet to the summit with Trump
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un waves before departing Pyongyang to Singapore on June 10, 2018. KCNA / REUTERS President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un are both in Singapore for their highly anticipated summit, the first of its…
Navy Band performs for Navy Week at Riverbend
Sailors from around the world will be in Chattanooga this week at Riverbend.
Hurricane Bud grows to Category 3 force off Pacific coast
Hurricane Bud is seen in an infrared satellite image capture at 11 a.m. ET on June 11, 2018. NOAA MEXICO CITY -- Hurricane Bud grew to Category 3 force off Mexico's Pacific coast on Monday. Forecasters said it was likely…
Johnthony Walker denied shorter term
Woodmore bus crash driver was asking for a shorter sentence
Bradley stabbing suspect was captured by his own family
Charged with stabbing two people
Police arrest suspect in Ridgedale shooting
Police say two men got into a fight and one went to the hospital with a gunshot wound.
Hundreds killed as Saudi coalition closes in on rebel enclave
8 Photos Pro-government fighters dance after engaging fire with Huthis on June 7, 2018, near the city of Al Jah in the Hodeida province, about 35 miles from the port city of Hodeida, which the Iran-backed Huthi insurgents seized in…
Pope accepts 3 bishops' resignations over sex abuse scandal
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis accepted the resignation Monday of the bishop at the center of Chile's clerical sex abuse scandal and two others. In doing so, the pope launched a purge of a Catholic Church that has lost its…
Analyst: Trump's G-7 performance was "geopolitical equivalent of the Comey firing"
President Trump's break with American allies at the G-7 Summit was the worst foreign policy outing of his presidency, and the worst summit since they started back in 1975, according to Ian Bremmer, president and founder of the Eurasia Group.…
Man sentenced for drugging, kidnap of British model
MILAN -- An Italian court on Friday convicted a Polish man of kidnapping a 20-year-old British model for ransom in a case that raised the specter of young women being auctioned off online on encrypted websites. The verdict slammed the…
What N. Korea's coverage of the Trump-Kim summit tells us
PYONGYANG, North Korea -- North Koreans got their first big dose of news Monday that their leader Kim Jong Un had arrived in Singapore for what even the state-run media was calling a historic meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.…
Diplomatic feud stands hundreds, including pregnant women, at sea
Migrants are rescued by staff members of the MV Aquarius, a search and rescue ship run in partnership between SOS Mediterranee and Medecins Sans Frontieres in the central Mediterranean Sea, June 9, 2018. REUTERS/HANDOUT ROME -- Italy and Malta dug…
For Kim Jong Un, making a deal with Trump is still a big risk
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un waves before departing Pyongyang to Singapore on June 10, 2018. KCNA / REUTERS SINGAPORE -- For North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, there is much at stake at Tuesday's historic summit with President Trump.…
North Korea's alleged human rights abuses
As President Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore this week, some critics hope he will bring up human rights — and fear the president might not require reforms as a part of any denuclearization agreement.…
Trump and Kim to kick off summit with one-on-one meeting
President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un will start their historic summit with a one-on-one session with only their translators. U.S. officials have said the leaders will meet for privately before holding an expanded bilateral meeting with their respective…
Top U.S. diplomat gives update ahead of historic Trump-Kim summit
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was expected to brief reporters Monday morning in Singapore to give an update on preparations for President Donald Trump's historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Watch Pompeo's briefing live with a CBS…
U.S. fighter jet crashes off Japan's Okinawa
A McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle fighter jet, from Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas is seen in March 2017; an F-15C like this one crashed off Japan's Okinawa on June 11, 2018; the pilot ejected and was rescued Larry…