CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (WDEF)- Knoxville Pastor and Detective Grayson Fritts has brought Cleveland, Tennessee to the center of controversy. All Scripture Baptist church planned on having their "Small Town Soul Winning" event at the Cracker Barrel on June 29th. Elijah White…
CHATTANOOGA,TN (WDEF)- Chattanooga Police are looking for the gunman that killed a man early Wednesday morning. 29 year old Robert Gill was fatally shot. Gill suffered from multiple gun shot wounds. Police responded to the 3200 block of South Street…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - The subject of reparations returned to Capitol Hill today. This time, it's part of a growing discussion about what the country might owe the descendants of slaves in the United States. The reparations topic has come back to…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - The vote on a controversial rezoning on Snow Hill Road was taken at the Hamilton County Commission meeting this morning. Commissioners voted 4-3 against it. But that vote won't count, because two commissioners weren't there and they needed…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. That historic date was observed today in Chattanooga. Local residents remembered that the event happened two and a half years after President Lincoln's…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Police say a Chattanooga man who led police on a 100 mile chase on June 14th, is now connected with a series of robberies. Nineteen year old Theonda Thorne led officers of a chase from Knoxville to Ooltewah..where…
CHATSWORTH, Georgia (WDEF) The attorneys representing Martha Al-Bashara are updating her ongoing legal dispute with the Chatsworth police department last year. They released body camera video of her arrest. Last summer, we told you that officers responded to a call…
"I can no longer be a part of this improper exercise of government. "
At 103-years-old, Julia "Hurricane" Hawkins isn't slowing down, she's picking up the pace. During this week's National Senior Games in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Hawkins won gold in both the 50 and 100 meter races. That's not all. The sprinter set…
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic — Officials in the Dominican Republic revealed Wednesday former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz was not the intended target of a recent shooting. Instead, officials believe the target was another man wearing a similar outfit.…
Melody Farris arrested Tuesday in Manchester.
They believe the victim was 31 year old Britney Parker Cole of Lafayette.
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - We've shown you how TDOT has been working on a slide zone along the Tennessee River for months now. Highway 41 runs along the south side of the river and is often used as a bypass for…
The Chattanooga Airport completes the final phase of its solar farm as they celebrate a renewable energy milestone.
Philadelphia police confirm more than 70 officers have been taken off the streets and placed on desk duty while authorities investigate hundreds of officers' alleged racist and violent social media posts, reports CBS Philly. The social media posts were unearthed…
Ransomware attacks on the rise in U.S. Fort Lauderdale Fla. — A Florida city agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom to hackers who took over its computer system, the latest in thousands of attacks worldwide aimed at extorting money from…
Five newscasters at NY1, a New York City news station, are suing parent company Charter Communications over age and gender discrimination. In a lawsuit obtained by the Associated Press, the anchors allege NY1 "blatantly marginalized them and cast them aside…
The former spiritual leader of a purported upstate New York self-improvement group that's been called a cult and a pyramid scheme has been found guilty on seven counts including sex trafficking, racketeering and conspiracy charges, CBS New York reported. Jurors began deliberating…
This was one of the four OD cases in a 24 hour period in Chattanooga that police warned the community about.
The Knoxville area church was scheduled to hold an event at the Cleveland restaurant.
it will give state and county election officials breathing room in a tight timeline to replace the state's outdated touchscreen voting machines.
A group of fishermen may need a bigger boat after a close encounter with a great white shark about 30 miles off the New Jersey coast, CBS station WCBS-TV reports. The boat's captain likened the experience to the movie "Jaws."…
Bankrupt California utility Pacific Gas & Electric agreed Tuesday to pay $1 billion to 14 local governments to cover damages from a series of deadly wildfires last year caused by downed power lines. The San Francisco-based company is facing more…
A House Judiciary subcommittee is gathering to debate H.R. 40, a bill that would study how the U.S. would implement reparations to black Americans, amid a national conversation about what the federal government owes descendants of slaves. Sen. Cory Booker,…