CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - A Chattanooga police officer has been arrested and now faces charges of Felony Kidnapping and Felony Sexual Battery. Officer Benjamin Dessalines was taken into custody Thursday. Officials said an internal investigation was opened on an allegation…
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) - Writing a novel is something most people only think about doing. But for 10 local young adults they not only thought about it, but also accomplished it. On Thursday, at the Barnes and Noble at…
Amber Worthy profiles two women who are leading in a male-dominated profession.
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - The Chattanooga housing authority is announcing plans to renovate 311 apartments starting in the spring. The renovations will require some families to find temporary housing and CHA invited property owners to talk about that today. News 12's Ashley…
They found air boat and cars at home on Harris Lane.
He was charged on Wednesday with DUI while children were on his bus.
SIGNAL MOUNTAIN, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Signal Mountain Boulevard project is finally over. TDOT reports they finished the paving job Thursday afternoon. Once the paint dries on the traffic lines, the road will re-open in time for the Friday morning…
Instructors and classmates are honoring an 18-year-old nursing student who was killed in a car crash with her two young nieces in Niota.
Middle Tennessee chief accused of making illegal requests from the Criminal Justice Portal System over several months.
A boy wanting to send a birthday card to his dad in heaven was comforted to know the post office got the letter to him safely. Teri Copland A boy wanting to send a birthday card to his dad in…
BUENOS AIRES -- President Trump was headed to Argentina on Thursday to meet with fellow world leaders after a stinging setback from his own country's legislature over the killing of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. A large majority of the…
China's government has ordered a halt to work by a medical team that claimed to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies. Vice Minister of Science and Technology Xu Nanping told state broadcaster CCTV Thursday that his ministry is…
Deutsche Bank's Frankfurt headquarters and other offices were raided by German police on Thursday. The raids were conducted on the suspicion bank employees helped clients set up offshore companies in tax havens to launder hundreds of millions of euros, in…
SIGNAL MOUNTAIN, Tennessee (WDEF) - A TDOT contractor has completed that slope stabilization project on U.S. 127, Signal Mountain Boulevard. Traffic is flowing today, after TDOT maintenance crews removed the concrete barrier rails and replaced them with barrels. When the…
DADE COUNTY, Ga. (WDEF) - The Dade County Sheriff is reopening cold case to confirm possible local connection to convicted serial killer, Samuel Little. The Dade County Sheriff Ray Cross says he found out Thursday from a Nashville news station.…
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF)- Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond says he's appointing Austin Garrett to the rank of Chief Deputy. Chief Deputy Garrett will serve as head of the Command Staff and will serve as the Sheriff’s executive administrator responsible…
A CCTV image provided by police shows one of the three men who are suspected of stealing a Renoir painting from an auction house in Vienna, Austria, Nov. 26, 2018. LPD Vienna via AP BERLIN -- Three unknown men allegedly…
A woman and her baby daughter are dead after a grizzly bear attack outside a remote cabin in northwest Canada on Monday, officials said. The Yukon Coroner's Service said Tuesday the child's father killed the bear before making the horrific…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Construction continues on the Avondale Youth and Family Development Center in Chattanooga. Some extra expenses may be pushing the multi-million dollar project over budget. The city agreed to spend $6 million to build a brand new…
ENGLEWOOD, Tennessee (WDEF) - Englewood Elementary in McMinn County will be closed on Thursday because of heating problems. Their heat and air unit shut down for the second day in a row on Wednesday. So the school shut it off…
Samuel Little says he met the woman in Chattanooga around 1980 and killed her in Dade County.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on the House Democrats' leadership elections (all times local): 2:35 p.m. Nancy Pelosi has been nominated by House Democrats to lead them in the new Congress, but she still faces a showdown vote for House…
The booming casino business in Tunica, MS has hit hard times.
By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - If David Earl Miller dies in Tennessee's electric chair next week for the 1981 murder of Lee Standifer, the slain Knoxville woman's mother won't be there to witness it. In a…