Oprah donates $500k to New Jersey school Principal Akbar Cook changed many of his students' lives in when he began opening West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey on Friday nights so students would have a place to go.…
CHICKAMAUGA, Georgia (WDEF) - Although Chattanooga is the epicenter of the Ironman competition, the economic ripple effects spread out from there. The cycling portion of the triathlon goes into Chickamauga, Georgia. This year over three thousand athletes from 49 states and…
During the construction, some shoulders may be closed between 9 AM and 3 PM.
A Tennessee Valley store is designing shirts in honor of Officer Nicholas Galinger.
Representatives in our area are speaking out about the controversy surrounding Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada.
The department will pay the victim of the hazing case $750,000 for personal, physical and psychological injuries.
Wright's attorneys had previously sought his release, saying he was dying of cancer.
Glen Casada responds to accusations by Rep. Mike Carter from Ooltewah.
Deere, a bellwether for the agriculture industry, cited uncertainty over trade relations with China as one factor that is making U.S. farmers reluctant to spend. China was the fourth-largest export market for U.S. agricultural goods in 2018, although farm sales…
"Parkland: Birth of a Movement" Students at a Florida high school where a deadly mass shooting took place honored their loving therapy dogs in their yearbook. The fourteen dogs comforted the teens in the aftermath of last year's massacre at…
Abortion is still legally available in Alabama and Georgia, but after a flurry of new legislation and national attention, many women aren't sure what's still allowed in their state. Both states have passed stringent new laws that would ban virtually…
Charges involve 8 victims at this point.
Chattanooga Police investigate shooting without a crime scene.
They say 22 year old Levi Amos got onto the Georgia Crime Information Center database to look up personal information on underage women.
Attorney General William Barr is not backing down from claims that he believes unauthorized spying took place on President Trump's campaign during the 2016 presidential election as the Justice Department makes moves to investigate the origins of the Russia probe.…
Trade war felt from Beijing to U.S. President Donald Trump is delaying any decision to impose auto tariffs on car and auto part imports, deciding against ratcheting up trade disputes or impacting talks with European nations and Japan ahead of…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a plan on Friday aimed at protecting abortion rights amid mounting Republican efforts to reverse, or at least chip away at the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling. Hinging largely on the assumption of a…
A cluster of massive great white sharks – some of which researchers have been tracking for more than a decade – has gathered about 20 miles off the coast of the Carolinas. Some of sharks even have names: Cabot, Hal,…
Former US National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn arrives for his sentencing hearing at US District Court in Washington, DC on December 18, 2018. Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images Washington -- Former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn told…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - Research is what many people do if they know they have to make a decision. "Everything I can dig up," Volkswagen Team Member Bryan Dyke said. For Dyke that decision could be on how to vote…
The Alabama State Senate voted Tuesday to pass the nation's most restrictive abortion bill and -- before it was signed into law by the state's governor less than 24 hours later -- actress Busy Philipps took to social media to encourage women…
The annual Hamilton Co/Chattanooga event honors officers who have fallen in the line of duty.
The Missouri House of Representatives on Thursday began debating House Bill 126, "Missouri States for the Unborn," a sweeping anti-abortion package that, if passed, would ban abortions after eight weeks into a pregnancy, among other restrictions. The bill does not…
Police in Idaho have used a controversial emerging DNA technique that relies on public genealogy databases to make an arrest in the 1996 killing of 18-year-old Angie Dodge. Idaho Falls Police say they've arrested Brian Leigh Dripps, of Caldwell, Idaho,…