NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery says a proposed ballot initiative to require that the attorney general be confirmed by state lawmakers after the current process of selection by the state Supreme Court would make the position…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - With COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths all on the decline, could the Delta variant surge finally be coming to an end? Dr. Jay Sizemore certainly thinks so. "I…
EAST RIDGE, Tennessee (WDEF) - A nonprofit health care provide will offer free medical services in a pop-up clinic this weekend in East Ridge. Remote Area Medical (RAM) offers dental, vision and medical care to underserved and uninsured people…
CHATTANOOGA, TN (WDEF) - It's never too late to make a positive change in your community. After serving more than 7 years behind bars, Reginald Yearby has dedicated his life to…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - "The fear that's in our community is real," says Kevin Muhammad of The Community Haven. Police say dozens of people witnessed a shooting that killed two women during an outdoor…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee is poised to spend approximately $900 million of its tax revenues on incentives, infrastructure projects and more under an agreement with Ford Motor Co. The sweeping spending…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (WDEF) - Chattanooga startup week focuses on celebrating entrepreneurship and innovations. The 5-day event offers multiple opportunities for entrepreneurs to learn more about how to grow their businesses. The 5-day event is…
Chattanooga, TN (WDEF): Chattanooga State kick-started their Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week today. Each day they will focus on a different challenge. Today, Chatt State volunteers were at the Chattanooga Area Food…
American officials are working with Haitian authorities to try to secure the release of 12 adults and five children connected with a U.S.-based missionary group who were abducted over the weekend by a gang notorious for killings, kidnappings and extortion.
Hundreds of people were ordered to report for jury duty Monday in Georgia for what could be a long, laborious effort to find jurors to hear the trial of three white men charged with fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery as he was running in their neighborhood.
MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (AP) — Betty Lynn, the film and television actor who was best known for her role as Barney Fife's sweetheart Thelma Lou on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died. She was 95. Lynn died peacefully Saturday after…
DETROIT (AP) — Toyota plans to build a new $1.29 billion factory in the U.S. to manufacture batteries for gas-electric hybrid and fully electric vehicles. The move comes amid a flurry of global announcements about shoring up production of batteries…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (WDEF) - Are you in need of a job this holiday season? Amazon is hiring. Amazon is hiring 150,000 employees for the upcoming holiday season with more than 3,000 of those 150,000 jobs being in Tennessee Several different types…
Colin Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications, his family said Monday. He was 84.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Major League Baseball playoffs are now underway. Whether your team is part of the American or National league, technology makes it easy to…
GRAMBLING, La. (AP) - Officials say one person was fatally shot and seven others were wounded at Grambling State University in the second deadly shooting at the Louisiana school within four days. The university says the shooting happened around 1…
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams was in Norfolk, Virginia, on Sunday to urge Black churchgoers to turn out for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in next month’s Virginia governor’s election. Abrams says what happens in the most watched…
ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia newspaper reports that government regulators have no idea how many of the state's 34,000 elevators, escalators and moving sidewalks are overdue for inspections. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that the problem is in a decade-old…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- The Tennessee Aquarium celebrated a huge milestone today. They welcomed their 26-millionth guest to visit since the doors of the River Journey building opened on May 1, 1992. The Suttle Family from Bowling Green, Kentucky got the…
16 people including City officials got first hand experience at battle challenges firefighters often face. These included putting out fire, searching a smoke filled building looking for people needing to be saved.
DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — A moderately strong earthquake and an aftershock hit Indonesia’s resort island of Bali early Saturday, killing at least three people and destroying dozens of homes. The quake hit just before dawn, causing people to run outdoors…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 11th-hour deal was reached Saturday, averting a strike of film and television crews that would have seen some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers walk off their jobs and would have frozen productions in Hollywood and across the…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- It's been 4 weeks since the tragic shooting on Grove Street where 7 women were shot and 2 were killed. Today, The Community Haven and other community leaders went to the Westside Softball Fields to rally for…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has offered to reinstate a professor who was acquitted of federal charges that had accused him of hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving NASA research grants, a…