By KELLI KENNEDY and PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida hospitals slammed with COVID-19 patients are suspending elective surgeries and putting beds in conference rooms, an auditorium and a cafeteria. As of midweek, Mississippi had just…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly announces his incentive plan to get more people to take the Covid vaccine. The city will hold a weekly drawing for $1,000. All Hamilton County residents who are fully vaccinated…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)-More than 70 families were on the docket for eviction court today. Even though the CDC extended the eviction moratorium through October of this year, the sixth court ruled that it was unconstitutional-which means families…
CHARLESTON, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Bradley County Sheriff's Office is investigating a body found around noon in a field near Charleston. The decomposed human body was found on a farm near 2000 Lower River Road. Authorities are not releasing any…
BRADLEY COUNTY (WDEF) - "I never cease to be amazed that something like this would happen. We just don't do this. We're grown adults," says Bradley County Sheriff Steve Lawson. An admittedly angered but resolved Sheriff Lawson…
In Georgia, more than two dozen hospitals said this week that they have had to turn away patients as the number of hospitalizations for COVID-19 has risen to 2,600 statewide.
A company that owns 20 McDonald's franchises in the Nashville area is offering to pay tuition for employees who want to attend Middle Tennessee State University.
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week by 14,000 to 385,000. The applications have more or less fallen steadily since topping 900,000 in early January.
TRENTON, Georgia (WDEF) - When kids return to Dade County Elementary on Thursday, they're going to see some new objects around school. Teachers on the DES S.T.E.A.M team have some new 3D printers and they've been firing them up this…
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Forest Service announces that a popular hiking trail in the Cherokee National Forest is reopening. It is a section of the Benton MacKaye Trail near the Thunder Rock Campground near Ducktown. The campground was closed…
ROME, Georgia (WDEF) - Wings Over North Georgia returns this fall with a Drive-In Air Show in October. The headlining acts will be the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force ACC A-10 Thunderbolt II Demonstration Team. The…
SALE CREEK, Tennessee (WDEF) - Two young fishermen from Sale Creek are "basking in the glory" of their accomplishment this past weekend. They are now national champions! That also means they both have big decisions to…
Emotions ran high after Hamilton County Commissioners learned about another increase in COVID cases. They want to know why people aren't protecting themselves.
Plus Covid case booms in Georgia and Tennessee, and legal trouble for an Alabama University's plan to give students a vaccine incentive.
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF) - A driver has been charged after a head-on crash Tuesday in Cleveland that injured a child. Bradley County investigators say a Ford pickup crossed the line on Dalton Pike and hit another Ford pickup. Three passengers…
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF) - Bradley County officials are prosecuting two men who say they work for a fugitive recovery company over how they treated a 13 year old. Deputies were called Tuesday evening to the ball fields at Bradley Central…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (WDEF) - A Chattanooga family was one of 300,000 applicants for the Live Anywhere program on Airbnb. Imagine their surprise when they were told they were one of 12 families actually chosen to take on an…
The recommendation by a hearing officer for the National Labor Relations Board said that Amazon potentially interfered with the April election in which warehouse workers overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to unionize.
Tennessee was hit Tuesday with a second legal challenge aimed at overturning a slate of bills targeting transgender people that Gov. Bill Lee signed into law earlier this year.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new eviction moratorium that would last until October 3.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced mounting pressure Tuesday to resign after an investigation found he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women and worked to retaliate against one of his accusers.
DUNLAP, Tennessee (WDEF) - If the early bird catches the worm, a lot of worms are going to be scooped up in the Sequatchie Valley on Wednesday. Sequatchie County schools are the first to go back to class for the…
DECATUR, Tennessee (WDEF) - A mother and son have been indicted on charges of defrauding their church in Meigs County. Carolyn Mullins and her son, William "Larry" Mullins were treasurer and assistant treasurer for Peakland Baptist Church. The church burned…
Red Bank Commissioners are a step closer to implementing a property tax increase.