CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - President Trump will have to make a judicial appointment for the Chattanooga area. Judge Harry "Sandy" Mattice, Jr. has announced his intention to retire on March 20th of next year. He was appointed as a federal judge…
PIKEVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Bledsoe County Emergency Management Agency is alerting citizens of water restrictions. The City of Pikeville is asking water customers to cut out washing their vehicles as well as watering their lawns and gardens. The mandatory…
UPDATE: After injured climber was brought out, a friend took him to the hospital. _____ MOWBRAY, Tennessee (WDEF) - Rescue crews had to bring out a climber at the Deep Creek climbing wall on Mowbray mountain. A 33 year old…
LAFAYETTE, Georgia (WDEF) - The LaFayette Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding four teenage suspects. Investigators say two people were robbed and assaulted on Saturday night around 7:40 PM at the old LaFayette High football field…
Activision Blizzard on Tuesday kicked a video game player out of a professional esports tournament after he voiced support for Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters, becoming the latest U.S. business moving to head off potential conflict with the Chinese government. The…
Washington — President Trump's border security chief touted the fourth consecutive month of lower numbers of apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border in September, but he also revealed that arrests of border-crossing migrants approached 1 million over the past 12 months.…
The Trump administration is adding a group of Chinese tech companies that develop facial recognition and other artificial intelligence technology to a U.S. blacklist over concerns that the tech is being used to repress China's Muslim minority groups. The move…
Albuquerque, New Mexico — About a quarter of Navajo women and some infants who were part of a federally funded study on uranium exposure had high levels of the radioactive metal in their systems, decades after mining for ingredients for…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (WDEF) - The Rhea County Sheriff's office is asking for your help in finding a missing man. 68 year old Daniel Reedy has dementia and has been missing for several hours. It is believed Reedy left the home…
General Electric is freezing the pensions of 20,000 U.S. salaried workers to reduce billions in future pension obligations and trim debt. About 700 employees in its supplemental pension program, geared toward executives, will also have their pension benefits frozen. The…
Two Americans and a British scientist have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for discovering how the body's cells sense and react to oxygen levels, work that has paved the way for new strategies to fight…
New York — A federal judge has emphatically rejected President Trump's challenge to the release of his tax returns to New York prosecutors, saying Monday that the president's broad claim of immunity from all criminal investigations is at odds with…
police say there was no sign of a break-in or damage to her vehicle
Washington — The U.S. and Australia announced the beginning of negotiations on Monday over an agreement that would significantly boost law enforcement cooperation under a 2018 U.S. law meant to facilitate cross-border data access for investigators. The move comes days after…
American troops have begun pulling back from positions in northern Syria in line with an order from the White House. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed the action hours after the White House said U.S. forces in northeast Syria would…
By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - With a bandage above his left eye and a large, red welt below it, former President Jimmy Carter has met with a cheering crowd while preparing to help build a home…
JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - A man has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2016 killing of a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent. The TBI said on Twitter that Brenden Burns pleaded guilty Monday in the shooting death of…
JACKSONVILLE, Alabama (WDEF) - In Alabama, 12 men are now charged in connection with the suspected statutory rape of two underage girls. One of the latest suspects is 19-year-old Reece Barton, who graduated from Marion County High school. The incident…
After the latest homicide at a Chattanooga night club, some people say it's a public nuisance.
EMS responders found the child, but not a parent.
"Should your lead concentration be over the 360 parts per million, we do need to clean up the property."
Engineering students at East Hamilton High School made toys they donated for kids in need.
Dog rescued after nearly a month in rubble A dog who survived Hurricane Dorian is being called a "miracle" in the Bahamas. The people who rescued the dog have named him Miracle because he survived underneath rubble for about a…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - "Not Every Hero Wears a Cape" is the slogan for this years Fire Prevention Week. This morning members of the Chattanooga Fire Department gathered to pay their respects to those lives lost and celebrate the start of…