CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Ryan Andrew Meyung was arrested in December on multiple counts of child rape, aggravated kidnapping and other related charges. An arrest affidavit says Meyung was a motocross stunt rider. Meyung…
Amid a national rise in COVID-19 cases, students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga returned to class Monday for the first day of the Spring semester. While COVID-19 remains prevalent in the lives of UTC students and staff, the…
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Hamilton County Health Department is offering more information on the new Pfizer booster shots for young teens. The shots are for ages 12-15. But only if you got your last shot at least five…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Erlanger Health Systems is the second area hospital to tighten up their visitation policy during the current Covid surge. The new policy went into affect this morning. Basically, they will limit patients to one visitor per visitation…
We talk about great comebacks in politics, music and Hollywood. So why not in beauty pageants. Meet the northeast Alabama woman who won a crown as Miss Alabama in 1984 and is doing it again in More To The Story With Staley.
SUMMERVILLE, Georgia (WDEF) - The Chattooga County sheriff's office has made a large drug bust. Sheriff Mark Schrader says his office, along with the Lookout Mountain Drug task force, got 10-thousand dollars worth of chrystal meth off the streets Thursday…
Chattanooga, TN (WDEF): January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett's office is working to help victims of abuse. Hargett runs the Safe at Home Program designed to prevent abusers from finding their…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Local law enforcement believe there could be more victims of a suspect arrested in December on charges of kidnapping and child rape. Ryan Andrew Meyung was charged three weeks ago. Both Chattanooga and Hamilton County investigators have…
A group of North Carolina voters told state officials on Monday they want U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified as a congressional candidate, citing his involvement in last January’s rally in Washington questioning the presidential election outcome before a Capitol riot later that day.
Cleveland, TN (WDEF): Whirlpool Corporation has sold two of its former plants in Cleveland to a Milwaukee - based company, Phoenix Investors. The two plants previously stood in Downtown Cleveland but have since been demolished. Cleveland Mayor Kevin Brooks issued…
Los Angeles police officers pulled an injured pilot from the wreckage of a small plane that crash landed on railroad tracks just moments before a commuter train smashed into the aircraft.
Doctors worked Monday to save the lives of multiple people gravely injured when smoke from a fire knocked them out or trapped them in their apartments in a New York City high-rise building. Nineteen people, including nine children, died in the blaze.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (WDEF) -- The Consumer Electronics Show is back in Las Vegas, and better than ever. CES is in person this year, but because of the recent surge…
Chattanooga, TN (WDEF): Chattanooga Police responded to the 4000 block of Arbor Place Lane on a report of a person shot just after 7 am Saturday morning. Officers located a male party, 47, suffering from a gunshot wound and secured…
Chattanooga, TN (WDEF): A firefighter was injured and taken to the hospital after Chattanooga Fire Department knocked out a commercial building fire early this morning. The injured firefighter has since been treated and released from the hospital. CFD responded to…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Saget, the actor-comedian known for his role as beloved single dad Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House” and as the wisecracking host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” has died, according to authorities in Florida.…
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF)- The Jokers Law Petition Project is one step closer to changing the law protecting law enforcement K9s as it has now officially oh its way to Nashville. A petition…
Akim Aliu recalled how no one knew what to expect when he and four NHL players of color sat in a circle inside a dimly lit locker room and, with cameras rolling, were asked to share their most personal and…
ISLAMABAD (AP) — At least 22 people, including 10 children, died in a popular mountain resort town in Pakistan after being stuck in their vehicles overnight during a heavy snowstorm as temperatures plummeted, officials said Saturday. Most of the victims…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Saturday issued new, forceful warnings to Russia on penalties it may face if it goes ahead with threats to invade Ukraine. U.S. officials raised the possibility of incremental shifts in decisions about America’s…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Intelligence reports compiled by the U.S. Capitol Police in the days before last year's insurrection envisioned only an improbable or remote risk of violence, even as other assessments warned that crowds of potentially thousands of pro-Trump demonstrators…
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Sentenced to life in prison for murder, the three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery will soon stand trial on federal hate crimes charges in which jurors will have to decide whether the slaying of the…
Hospitalizations of U.S. children under 5 with COVID-19 soared in recent weeks to their highest level since the pandemic began, according to government data released Friday on the only age group not yet eligible for the vaccine. The worrisome trend…
DETROIT (AP) — Two parents charged with their son in a Michigan school shooting failed to get their $500,000 bond reduced Friday, as prosecutors offered new allegations about the teen's hallucinations, passion for guns and boasts about violence. James and Jennifer Crumbley,…