CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - Alisha Chavez's passion for inner city kids started through her job as a Chattanooga Police Officer and working in community outreach. "That's where I think the bug kind of bit me for the kids and from…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - An opinion piece for the Chattanoogan has stirred a hornets nest of controversy over race and the Hamilton County School system. The former Chattanooga Free-Press editor accuses Dr. Bryan Johnson of "forcing an agenda" by hiring five…
Republican speaks at the Chattanooga Trade and Convention Center
Can the city afford new lighting for bridge?
He previewed his show on News 12 Now This Morning
ESCUINTLA, Guatemala -- Search efforts continue in Guatemala after a volcanic eruption left at least 70 people dead and forced thousands from their homes. The threat of another eruption sent people racing to safety as toxic plumes of smoke rose…
NEW YORK -- Off the coast of Japan on Tuesday, 50-year-old Ben Lecomte started a journey unlike any other. "I am looking forward to the big crossing," he said. That doesn't even begin to cover it. Lecomte, a Frenchman now…
Democrats and Republicans pick their nominees for Governor
Have you seen Braden Lineberry, George Gregory Hayes, or Jerry Guess?
A man exercises on a garbage-strewn beach on World Environment Day in Mumbai, India, June 5, 2018. FRANCIS MASCARENHAS/REUTERS India has vowed to ban all single-use plastics by 2022, according to the U.N.'s environmental agency, which called it an "unprecedented…
20 year veteran in District Attorney's Office charged with DUI
Republicans say 9 weeks is too long for a runoff campaign that used to be just 3.
Aggravated child abuse charges downgraded.
Boyd attorney characterizes phone calls as political free speech, not extortion.
Razan al-Najjar (R) works with a colleague to tend to an injured man at an emergency medical tent after clashes with Israeli security forces after a demonstration near the border with Israel in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 1,…
Thunderstorm knocked experienced kayakers out of their boats Sunday
Shooting in neighborhood off of Cromwell Road.
Austria's President Alexander Van der Bellen welcomes Russia's President Vladimir Putin in his office in Vienna, Austria, June 5, 2018. LEONHARD FOEGER/REUTERS MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin ridiculed the U.S. indictment of 13 Russians in a television interview broadcast Monday,…
TOKYO -- Professional distance swimmer Ben Lecomte, 51, set off from Japan to San Francisco on Tuesday in an attempt to become the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean. Spokesman Alexandre Borreil said Lecomte left at 8 a.m.…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - The Chattanooga Fire Department has released updated information on the woman pulled from a house fire on Windsor Street Sunday. The fire department says the 33-year-old woman remains in critical condition in the burn unit at…
Firefighters and rescue workers look for bodies and survivors at an area affected by the eruption of the Fuego volcano in the community of San Miguel Los Lotes in Escuintla, Guatemala, June 4, 2018. Stringer / REUTERS EL RODEO, Guatemala…
BEIRUT -- An international human rights group on Tuesday accused the U.S. and its allies of showing little regard for civilians' lives while attacking the Syrian city that was once the de-facto capital of the Islamic State of Iraq and…
A whale found to have swallowed up to 80 plastic bags is seen in Songkhla, Thailand, in a still image from a June 1, 2018 video by Thailand's Department of Marine and Coastal Resources. REUTERS/handout Almost 20 pounds of plastic…
EAST RIDGE, Tenn. (WDEF) - It was over the weekend that Hope Dodson got a call from a relative telling her that there had been several vehicle break-ins in her neighborhood around Frawley Road and Cedar Glen Circle. And, when…