CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Hamilton County investigators have now made arrests in the rash of stabbings at the Silverdale Detention Center last weekend. Seven inmates have now been charged with the first incident that happened Friday night just before 8PM. An…
LAFAYETTE, Georgia (WDEF) - The Walker County Sheriff says a teenager has been charged with bringing an unloaded gun to a pair of schools. Sheriff Steve Wilson says it happened on Wednesday. A 14 year old former student at Chattanooga…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - A 29 year old woman was killed in a one car crash on Bailey avenue in Chattanooga Thursday night. 32-year old Christopher Patterson was driving the car. He is charged with DUI and vehicular homicide. Police say he…
It's a mystery more than 150 years in the making. Some UTC students and a professor may have finally found the U.S.S. Chattanooga.
RINGGOLD, Georgia (WDEF)- The Catoosa-Dade-Walker Vaccination Station at the Colonnade in Ringgold is currently offer appointment free COVID-19 vaccinations. There was a long line of cars out through the parking lot out to the road full of people ready to…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- If you've noticed empty chicken wing coolers in your local grocery store, you aren't alone. In the last year or so, consumers have seen a shortage of Lysol, toilet paper, lumber and now chicken…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - It's a mile maker, if you will, in the I 24/75 project in Chattanooga. The goals of the whole project are replacing old bridges and interstate structures that date back to the 1950's. And to completely change…
CHATTOOGA COUNTY, Ga (WDEF) - The Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit announced they will be forming their very own cold case unit to help work on some unsolved cases in the area. “We will never forget our victims. We…
SIGNAL MOUNTAIN, Tennessee (WDEF) - A 2 year old with cerebral palsy on signal mountain has been given a very special gift. Jacob Phipps was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when he was just one years old. The Phipps'…
OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) - A judge on Wednesday sentenced a teenager in connection with the 2019 crash that killed Auburn University sports announcer Rod Bramblett. News outlets reported that the sentence for Johnston Edward Taylor, 18, was not released because…
A Chattanooga football assistant coach fired over a social media post disparaging the state of Georgia and voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams is suing to get his job back along with backpay and damages. He contends his First Amendment rights…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - The victim of the shooting Wednesday night in the East Lake Courts is a 15 year old. It happened just before 9 PM on 6th Avenue. The teenager was sent to the hospital with…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - A 52 year old Hamilton County man has been indicted by the grand jury on three counts of sexual abuse of a child. The sheriff's department arrested Grady M. Hulsey on Wednesday. He is charged with rape,…
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (WDEF)- Several family members of the five Silverdale inmates who were stabbed said they knew they were in danger according to their family members. "My son has 17 stab wounds. He has stitches in 10…
'The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant' can compensate venues like theaters up to 45 percent of their gross earned revenue.
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Chattanooga Police are investigating a double shooting overnight in East Lake. It happened before 4 AM in the 2300 block of East 31st Street. Police found a 17 and 26 year old males suffering from gunshot wounds.…
GENOA, Ohio (WDEF) - The case of a missing Ohio woman has come to a sad ending. We told you that Amber Eichner's cell phone had pinged in our area over the weekend. But…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - The second bridge replacement closure on I 24 is on for this weekend. Bad weather has delayed the project of replacing the interstate bridge at Germantown Road for the last few weekends. They are putting up new…
MONTEAGLE, Tenn (WDEF) - Jim Oliver’s smokehouse restaurant was a well known roadside attraction that put Monteagle, Tennessee on the map. Now, there’s nothing left but rubble. Around 4pm Tuesday evening, more than 2 dozen fire departments responded…
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF) - A K-9 officer ran down a burglary suspect after a chase Wednesday morning in Bradley County. Sheriff's deputies were called around 7:30 AM to a burglary in progress at a barn on Cohulla Road SE. A…
WASHINGTON D.C. (WDEF) - The Cleveland, Tennessee man charged with participating in the Jan. 6th riot that led to the storming of the U.S. Capitol, has been declared a "danger to the Community". That came from a federal judge in…
It's been one year since we here at News 12 lost one of our own.
Ringgold, GA (WDEF) - Ten years ago Tuesday, an EF-4 tornado plowed through the city of Ringgold killing numerous people and injuring at least 30. Local officials hosted their tenth anniversary tornado memorial Tuesday evening. It was…
MONTEAGLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - A landmark on top of Monteagle Mountain burned on Tuesday. Jim Oliver's Smokehouse Restaurant and Trading Post caught fire around 4PM (CST). It looks like the popular restaurant is a total loss. The cabins and inn…