ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia lawmakers are sending a bill to increase parental oversight of schools to Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature. Also Friday, a bill regulating what schools can teach on racial issues neared final passage. That measure bans…
ATLANTA, Georgia (WDEF) - Georgia will become the 25th state to approve Constitutional Carry, or not requiring a permit to carry concealed weapons. Tennessee already dropped the permit requirement and Alabama just passed one this session. As the Georgia legislature…
ATLANTA (AP) - U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a lawsuit challenging a state law that a group of voters is using to challenge her eligibility to run for reelection. The challenge filed last month with the Georgia secretary…
TENNESSEE (WDEF) - As turkey hunting season ramps up across Tennessee, wildlife officials do have one warning for "hunters." You can't shoot turkeys wandering in someone else's yard. TWRA is posting a video of a turkey poaching case…
MURPHY, North Carolina (WDEF) - Investigators charge a Georgia man with a series of break-ins in western North Carolina. They say Jack Earnest Smith from Baldwin, Georgia was being transferred from one health care facility to another on in…
COVINGTON, Georgia (WDEF) - 55 year old Jim Stancil of Covington, Georgia knows how to barbeque. And grill. They're two different things you know. "Big Jim" has owned his own…
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF)- COVID cases continue to drop across Tennessee and Georgia but does that mean COVID is completely behind us? The latest COVID surge due to the Omicron variant has come and seemly passed, but COVID cases are still…
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (WDEF)-Hamilton County School District is a read 360 school system. This means, there is an extra emphasis on kids achieving their reading at their grade level or better. "So this is…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Chattanooga Police are releasing details on the shooting Thursday evening on East 23rd Street. They learned the 16 year old male was in a vehicle when he was shot. He was actually a few blocks…
DALTON, Georgia (WDEF) - Dalton Police are now releasing the name of the man killed Thursday morning in a shooting. 62-year old Kenneth Ray Townsend was shot in an apartment on Selvidge Street just before 3 AM. He…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) -- Wildfires are blazing through Tennessee, with some of the largest being outside Pigeon Forge in Sevier County. Needing backup, Chattanooga has been just one of…
(Photos from Bradley Co. Fire Dept.) CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF) - Officials are blaming the wildfire last night in the Cleveland area on the storms that swept through our area. The fire burned more than 80 acres near Blue Springs…
HUNTSVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - The TBI says two men have now been arrested in the death of a woman last fall. 37 year old Crystal Chambers was shot at a home in Scott County, Tennessee. After a joint investigation by…
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tennessee (WDEF) - The school principal merry-go-round has begun for next year in Hamilton County. The school system announced the first changes on Thursday, effecting Tyner Academy, Orchard Knob Middle and the newest Future Ready Center. Gerald L.…
RAINSVILLE, Alabama (WDEF) - Rainsville, Alabama isn't really their hometown, but it was close enough in 1982. County music fans in our area should be able to tell…
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF)-A formerly homeless country musician is making it a point to spread the importance of music. Country musician Steven Cade is donating guitars to inspire those in needs and offer…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) -- "Chattanooga faces a crossroads. If we don't do something about housing in our city, something bold and decisive, there are going to be serious and irreversible consequences," said Mayor Tim Kelly,…
RINGGOLD, Georgia (WDEF) - A former security guard at a local amusement park has been convicted of Attempted Child Molestation. Last summer, a a young girl told authorities that Lake Winnepesaukah security guard Carlos Fenelli had touched her inappropriately and…
TRENTON, Georgia (WDEF) - Drug task force agents and Dade County deputies checked out a house this week after a tip that drugs were being sold there. The home was on Stephens Drive, right off I 59 in the New…
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (WDEF)- "I think what’s amazing about this food bank, as we work with so many amazing partners across our community, that we don’t have to imagine a world where our neighbors are…
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF)-The Tennessee Commissioner of Education had a stop at Bradley County’s PIE Innovation Center. Bradley county schools, PIE innovation Center, helps kids learn in the classroom at…
A line of severe storms packing isolated tornadoes and high winds ripped across the Deep South overnight, toppling trees and power lines and leaving homes and businesses damaged…
FILE - Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021. Pence is unveiling a new policy platform for Republicans ahead of this year's midterms elections. He's offering a…
Cleveland, Tenn (WDEF)- A brush fire occurred late Wednesday night and continued into early Thursday morning just south of Cleveland…