CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Chattanooga City Councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod held a chili cookoff today in the Mission Ridge Community. One of the attends stood up and said, "My whole thing about being here today is being apart of District 9. I…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - University of Tennessee Chattanooga Police are investigating a report of an attempted burglary at Lockmiller Apartments. The attempted burglary was reported around 3:00 p.m. The school sent an email to students say that an unknown suspect…
BRADLEY COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) - A man is in custody after SWAT was called to a home on Belleview Drive in Bradley County. Just after 12:30 Saturday, a 911 call came into dispatch about a burglary in progress at Belleview Drive…
Hixson, TN (WDEF) - Late Friday evening, neighbors in Hixson called 911 with reports of a chimney fire. Dallas Bay Volunteer Fire Department responded to 7016 Fairington Circle and contained the fire showing on the side of the home. There…
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella is at the Tivoli Theatre all weekend long.
For the first time in ten years, there is a confirmed case of Raccoon Variant Rabies in Hamilton County.
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - The president signed a safeguard tariff on imported solar modules that starts at 30% and ends 4 years later at 15%. The first 2.5 gigawatts of imported solar cells will be exempt from the tariff each year.…
MANCHESTER, Tennessee (WDEF) The Coffee County Sheriff's Department is investigating threats to area students on social media. In the meantime, they are asking parents to keep their teens off of their phones and devices. The threats involve kidnapping, physical abuse…
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tennessee (WDEF) - A 25 foot Cruiser burned this afternoon at Island Cover Marina on Chickamauga Lake. A resident saw the boat was on fire, and pushed it out into the slough. The Dallas Bay Volunteer fireboat was…
CLEVELAND, Tenn. (WDEF) - A traffic stop by a Tennessee State Trooper unravels a series of auto burglaries in Bradley County. The trooper uncovered two handguns stolen from a home. Then Bradley County detectives got involved. They connected 18 year…
Alabama attorney general says state will pursue death sentence for inmate despite Supreme Court ruling ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - The Latest on the stayed execution of Vernon Madison (all times local): 12:30 p.m. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall says the…
2 PM Update: Sheriff Bo Burnette has just held a press conference on the arrest of Dewayne Halface. He says they caught him in a vacant house just after noon (CST). He says they honed in on Powell's Crossroads after…
ATLANTA (AP) - Federal authorities are seeking the public's help to locate a 25-year-old woman dubbed the "Freedom Fighter Bandit" who they say is behind a string of bank robberies in Georgia. The FBI's Atlanta office says the most recent…
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has delayed the execution of an Alabama inmate with dementia who lawyers say can't remember slaying a police officer. The court issued a stay Thursday night to consider arguments from 67-year-old Vernon…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - The Chattanooga Police Department says that Malcom McKoy died on the 26th from his injuries sustained in a shooting that happened on the 25th at East Lake Courts. Chattanooga Police arrested a juvenile for the shooting…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Latest on the execution of Alabama inmate Vernon Madison (all times local): 5:45 p.m. The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily delayed the execution of an Alabama inmate. Vernon Madison is scheduled to be put to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Attorneys for the city of Memphis and a nonprofit contend it's too late for a judge to tell them how to manage Confederate statues removed from two parks. In Davidson County Chancery Court Thursday, Allan Wade…
ROSSVILLE, Georgia (WDEF) - Walker county attorneys are waiting to see if Primary HealthCare Centers still wants to use their facility on Suggs Street in Rossville. The two sides are expected to meet again tomorrow night to possibly discuss a…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Truck driver Benjamin Brewer was convicted on Thursday for causing the deadly Ooltewah I-75 crash two and a half years ago. Six people died in the multi car wreck that was caused when Brewer ran into eight…
CHICKAMAUGA, Georgia (WDEF) - The Walker County Sheriff's Department is looking for a shooting suspect in Chickamauga. It happened around 12:45 PM at 217 Wallaceville School Road. A 44 year old man at the home was shot in the groin…
DECATUR, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Meigs County Sheriff's Department says a litter officer of theirs was injured in a wreck. Officer Mike Long was driving the vehicle and trailer with four inmates inside on Highway 58. They were headed south…
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia advocacy groups say a slate of anti-immigrant proposals backed by conservative lawmakers are hurting Atlanta's chances of attracting Amazon's second headquarters. Flanked by Democratic state lawmakers, the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia and other advocacy…
Chattanooga police are investigating an early morning shooting.
MARION COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) - The search for Dewayne Halfacre ended on Wednesday for the evening. And the man has yet to be found. "I want him off the street as bad as anybody. I feel like he's a danger…
