HAMILTON COUNTY, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Hamilton County Sheriff says he has fired a corrections officer accused of having sex with an inmate at Silverdale. Samuel Horn was indicted for the incident that occurred in September. The Sheriff says he…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Chattanooga Police say a man was shot this evening in what looks like a robbery attempt. It happened before 6PM in the 2300 Block of E 18th Street Place near the foot of Missionary Ridge. The victim…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) -- In light of recent local and national accounts of antisemitism, the Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga has had enough. The federation is joining JewBelong and Shine a Light in a nationwide…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) -- A Brainerd High School student was arrested today after being found with drugs and a firearm on campus. The student has been charged with Carrying a Firearm…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- The second hearing in the Budgetel nuisance case went before a Hamilton County judge today. (more…)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- The opioid epidemic has stretched its deadly tentacles into every aspect of our society. (more…)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee State's director of football operations and on-campus recruiting has been charged with aggravated assault and vandalism in an encounter involving a football player. Court documents show 22-year-old Ariel Escobar was arrested Dec. 3 after a…
RINGGOLD, Georgia (WDEF) - Officials at Parkridge Health System say they have dropped their appeal of the certificate of need ruling for a new hospital in the Ringgold area.…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Sheriff's officers say a Brainerd High student faces charges after they found him with a gun and marijuana. They say it started this morning when a teacher smelled marijuana on the student. The teacher called an administrator,…
CHICKAMAUGA, Georgia (WDEF) - It's a Christmas movie produced by a married couple who live outside of New York City, but the couple sport deep ties to our…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- "And because we have good intentions, we don’t question things that we really need to question." (more…)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Chattanooga Firefighters and Postal Workers came together at Brainerd High School this afternoon for a charity basketball game. “The Give Back Classic” consisted of…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) -- Chattanooga police are investigating a shooting incident that took place Sunday evening near Brainerd High School. It happened at around 6:45 P-M, when police responded to a call of shots fired. Officers say they arrived and found…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Vision care is a critical medical need…
OOLTEWAH, Tennessee (WDEF) - A tip through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has ended with the arrest of an Ooltewah man. 40 year old DeWayne Douglas Price faces charges of sexual exploitation of a minor. He is…
DAYTON, Tennessee (WDEF) - The search is on for a suspect that authorities tried to arrest in the Blythe Ferry area. The suspect was wanted in another jurisdiction. TWRA officers and the Rhea County Sheriff's Office tied to arrest the…
By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee’s lead investigative agency is seeking $2 million in contracts with outside labs to process 1,000 rape kits that need to be tested before the end of June. The Tennessee Bureau…
EAST RIDGE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Hamilton Co. Criminal Court Judge Boyd Patterson visited the recently evicted Budgetel Inn this afternoon. News 12 was allowed to get video on the property with permission and supervision…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) -- Members of Chattanooga Echelon sprinted into the Signal Mountain Walmart today to shop for kids on their Salvation Army Angel Tree. The organization recently raised five thousand dollars through its…
MCMINNVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - The TBI says four suspects have been charged with setting a fire at a home in McMinnville. It happened in July at a home on McGregor Road. Janice Stokes has been charged with Insurance Fraud and…
Content Warning: Some of the details in this article are disturbing. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- The man accused of murdering 22 year old Jasmine Pace had his bond hearing today in Chattanooga. (more…)
DALTON, Georgia (WDEF) - A jury convicted a Dalton man in a knife attack in 2021. 29 year old Shaquae Divine Robinson was found guilty of Aggravated Assault with Intent to Murder, Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, and Use of…
COLLINSVILLE, Alabama (WDEF) - Investigators in Northeast Alabama have charged a man with killing his mother. Emergency officials responded a home in Collinsville (below Fort Payne) on Tuesday night and found the body of 62 year old Sandra Jelks in…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- A new kind of computing is in the works, thanks to EPB and Qubitekk. They're teaming up to create the first commercially available quantum network…