LAFAYETTE, Georgia (WDEF) - Yesterday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed Senate Bill 514, which prohibits mask mandates in primary and secondary schools. "No local board of education, governing board, superintendent, or personnel at any…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - First Responders are getting swamped with high wind calls right now. They've gotten calls about brush fires, trees down and one power pole down. Here is a sample of calls from the last half hour in our…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee would ban transgender athletes from participating in female college sports under legislation gaining traction inside the state’s GOP-controlled General Assembly. The proposal cleared key legislative hearings Wednesday in both the…
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A wildfire in East Tennessee has authorities mandating evacuations in the area. The Sevier County Emergency Management Agency says the evacuation is the Hatcher Mountain area of Wears Valley and the resorts of Shagbark and Little…
DECATUR, TN (WDEF) - The best teachers know how to listen and encourage. As a teacher and coach at Meigs County High, Tyler Roberts displays both those skills on a daily basis. He is…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - This is Chad Covington. Chad lives here in Chattanooga. But that toy in his hand is how he makes his living. It's called Kendama. A traditional Japanese skill…
PIKEVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - A Pikeville man has been indicted on a count of Statutory Rape. The investigation began last October over accusations that Braydon Pendergrass had a sexual encounter with a minor. TBI investigators presented their evidence to the…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Chattanooga is preparing to remove the homeless from a camp along the railroad tracks of Norfolk Southern on East 11th street. They've been notifying the 150 residents for the last couple of months about the move. The…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has released a report on officer-involved fatalities in the state during 2021. They say officers in Tennessee used deadly force 31 times last year. 11 of the cases happened in a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The…
The Republican candidates for the Hamilton County District Attorney race exchanged several disagreements in a debate Tuesday night.
Residents escaped an apartment fire early Wednesday morning by climbing down ladders from the fire department.
ATHENS, Tennessee (WDEF) -You hear the stories of people who never see their stolen goods again. But a McMinn County citizen had the opposite experience on Monday. Sheriff's officers noticed a camper parked in an odd place. …
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Hamilton County was one of communities across the country that honored Vietnam Veterans Appreciation Day. This is the anniversary of the day that troops were withdrawn from the county and…
HAMILTON COUNTY (WDEF) - The Hamilton County School Board may be less than 24 hours away from having to change one of its policies, after the state house passed House Bill 1944, otherwise known as the Obscenity Bill. It…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - A second COVID booster shot has been approved by the FDA. The FDA approved an additional dose of the mRNA vaccine those 50 or older. That means that a second booster has some benefit for the immuno-compromised…
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…