Mar 29, 2022 7:05 PM By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia senators are scrapping plans to seek further big changes in state election law, beset by strong opposition from local election officials who say their offices would…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office has identified the man who was hit and killed on I-75 over the weekend. The victim was 52 year old John D. Hess. Investigators say he was walking along the interstate heading…
Americans 50 and older can get a second COVID-19 booster if it’s been at least four months since their last vaccination, a chance at extra protection for the most vulnerable in case the coronavirus rebounds.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a bill into law to make lynching a federal hate crime, more than 100 years after such legislation was first proposed.
HAMILTON COUNTY (WDEF) - A Hamilton County judge has been appointed to a state level position. Judge Tom Greenholtz, who has been serving as a criminal court judge in Hamilton County, was appointed to the Court of Criminal Appeals…
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The…
A group of women twerk on Washington Avenue early Saturday night before the midnight curfew imposed by the City of Miami Beach, Fla., Saturday March 26, 2022. Miami Beach officials have spent recent years trying…
FILE - This Jan. 11, 2018, file photo, shows the state Capitol in Salem, Ore. Oregon has abandoned a requirement that restricted the use of its first-in-the-nation death-with-dignity law to residents of the state, after a…
FILE - Travis Scott performs at Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, in Houston. Attorneys for some of those killed and injured during 2021's deadly Astroworld music festival alleged in court…
FILE - Yolanda Renee King, granddaughter of The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., raises her fist as she speaks during the March on Washington, on the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I…
BRADLEY COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Commissioner Erica Davis is seeking re-election in District 6 of Bradley County. At the same time, she's in ties with the…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - From the Smokies to Birmingham and several communities in between, we've seen a rash of wildfires and brush fires since the weekend. They all have one thing in common. High winds that have dried out the undergrowth…
CHATTANOOGA, TN (WDEF) - We are little more than a month away from the Republican Primary in the Hamilton County District Attorney's race, but we are just one day away from a debate…
ROSSVILLE, Georgia (WDEF) - The city of Rossville wants to restore its former glory. The question isn't how, but when. It's beginning with an aesthetic change, and with a new look comes a new…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) -- "When these students finish in this nine weeks, they're going to be cream of the crop," said Charlotte Brand, Economic Mobility Program Coordinator for the Enterprise Center. This morning, the…
ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta's airport plans to spend $55 million to replace X-ray machines at the main security checkpoint with more advanced scanners to screen carry-on bags. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport officials say the new technology…
CHATTANOOGA, TN (WDEF) - Did you know that Aretha Franklin sang at Howard High School 67 years ago? We'll she did. A touching tribute to that performance is coming up soon.…
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Bradley County Sheriff's Office is sharing new information on case in which a woman fired a shotgun at intruders into her home. The burglary case happened two weeks ago in the northeast part of the…
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) - Dollywood amusement park in Tennessee says it has temporarily closed a ride developed by the same maker of a free-fall ride from which a teen dropped to his death at a Florida attraction. Dollywood told…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - It's almost time for Easter! This year, it's on April 17th. And that means it's time for another Westside Easter Egg Hunt. It's all organized and sponsored…
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF) - A court officer was bitten by an inmate according to the Bradley County Sheriff's Office. Last week, Corrections Deputy Amber Owens was doing her usual job at the Courthouse, shuttling suspects between the holding cell and…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - The pedestrian who was hit crossing MLK Boulevard last Thursday morning has died. The 57 year old man was crossing near the Read House around 8:15 AM when he was hit by a Jaguar heading East. Police…
(WDEF) - A Tennessee man has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for being legally drunk and speeding in a vehicle crash that killed an off-duty police officer. The Shelby County district attorney's office says Marquell Griffin was sentenced…
FILE - A Ukrainian soldier stands a top a destroyed Russian APC after recent battle in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 26, 2022. With Russia continuing to strike and encircle urban populations, from Chernihiv and Kharkiv in…