Lula Lake Land Trust has canceled their Polar Plunge event for Sunday, January 6th after postponing the event earlier last year. The foundation said on their Facebook on Saturday that the reasoning was due to weather conditions and flooding. A…
Halloween isn't the only time you can take advantage of a haunted house.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Tennessee Highway Patrol honored an Atlanta man Friday for assisting a trooper in distress back in November. However, for Paul Zurbrugg, November 25 was just another day. "My first instinct was just to help the…
MURRAY COUNTY, Ga. (WDEF) - Murray County Detectives are investigating after a disturbing video was shared on social media. Authorities said they got the video on Facebook on Friday and immediately started investigating. News 12 first heard about the video…
Dunlap Police are investigating suspicious phone calls made by a man that targets women.
Iranian warships will sail for the first time into Atlantic waters early in 2019, the deputy commander of Iran's navy has said. The long-distance voyage would bring Iran's military forces closer to U.S. soil, and territorial waters, than they have…
A Buddhist monk in Japan received a traffic violation when driving in his robe. The police officer who pulled the monk over said the attire interfered with his safe driving, The Japan News reports. The man refused to pay the…
Berlin -- Data and documents belonging to hundreds of German politicians have been hacked and posted online via Twitter, a German broadcaster reported Friday. The leak, which saw the data posted in daily batches before Christmas on a Twitter account…
Last Updated Jan 4, 2019 9:49 AM EST The Russian lawyer for a Michigan man jailed on espionage charges in Moscow says his client's detention is "baseless." Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine, was arrested in Russia a week ago…
Laem Talumpuk, Thailand -- Rain, winds and surging seawater buffeted coastal villages and world-famous tourist resorts Friday, as Tropical Storm Pabuk made landfall on southern Thailand's east coast. The storm, with maximum sustained winds of 42 mph, hit the shore…
London -- Prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi and British-Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe announced Thursday plans to go on hunger strike in Tehran's Evin Prison to protest against the denial of medical treatment."We are urging for an immediate action…
Rome -- North Korea's top diplomat in Italy has gone into hiding along with his wife, according to a South Korean lawmaker, raising the possibility of a defection of a senior North Korean official. The news came from South Korea's…
Olivia Newton-John wants you to know that she is alive and well despite rumors to the contrary circulating in Australian tabloids. The 70-year-old singer and "Grease" star, who's repeatedly battled cancer, posted a video to her official Twitter and Facebook…
DECATUR, Tenn. (WDEF) - Residents met Thursday evening to discuss possible ramifications of vegetation legislation. Zach Andrews has co-owned Cottonport Marina since 2012. Like most owners, he does what he has to do to keep his business running. And, for…
A Tennessee Valley high school principal who was demoted, gets his old position back.
After a Walker County man lost everything in a house fire, friends and family are rallying behind him.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) — A new federal law will now make it easier for you to compare procedure costs among hospitals. As of January 1, all hospitals must report its procedure rates online. The Trump adminstration pushed this new rule…
Last Updated Jan 3, 2019 10:53 AM EST U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman has met with a Michigan man accused of spying. Russian police detained Paul Whelan nearly a week ago, and on Thursday Russia's state-run media said he had…
Last Updated Jan 3, 2019 10:53 AM EST U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman has met with a Michigan man accused of spying. Russian police detained Paul Whelan nearly a week ago, and on Thursday Russia's state-run media said he had…
Baby found alive after apartment collapse Russia's emergencies ministry says the search of the concrete rubble from a partially collapsed apartment building has ended and the number of deaths stands at 39. The ministry declared the operation by hundreds of…
Canberra, Australia -- Californian solo sailor Abby Sunderland said on Thursday her "heart skipped a beat" with news that the yacht she abandoned in the remote Indian Ocean in 2010 during and ill-fated round-the-world attempt had been found off the…
Seoul, South Korea -- North Korea's acting ambassador to Italy, Jo Song Gil, went into hiding with his wife in November, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers in Seoul on Thursday. A high-profile defection by one of North Korea's elite…
Seoul, South Korea -- North Korea's acting ambassador to Italy, Jo Song Gil, went into hiding with his wife in November, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers in Seoul on Thursday. A high-profile defection by one of North Korea's elite…
Journalists named Time's Person of the Year Dubai, United Arab Emirates -- Saudi prosecutors will seek the death penalty for at least five people in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, the kingdom's state media reported on Thursday…