CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Former McCallie basketball coach Steve Carpenter is being accused of sexually assaulting students during his tenure as a blue tornado. Two students who attended the school in the 1990s came forward, saying Carpenter sexually abused them.…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - The Southeast Tennessee Area Agency on Aging and Disability is hoping to help some older adults fighting food insecurity. Thanks to a new partnership they've been able to hire someone completely dedicated to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - Metropolitan Ministries kicked off its annual Gardens-To-Go distribution this week. The organization helps people who are having a dire personal financial crisis and are unable to pay rent, utilities, or they have no food. During this…
James had to leave the United States because of VISA work permit issues. He has been teaching mobile Journalism in Scotland since, but is back in Tennessee to attend an awards banquet for his reporting on ISIS in the Persian Gulf.
Johnthony Walker was sentenced to four years in prison for the Woodmore bus crash that killed six students.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Latest on a shooting at Tennessee restaurant that left four dead (all times local): 12:10 p.m. In a brief address that drew a standing ovation, the man who snatched an AR-15 rifle away from a…
Wassom Memorial Highway reduced to one lane while TDOT mulls the fix.
WARNING: Some language may be offensive to viewers MARION COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- A Marion County bus driver is now fired for using inappropriate language around his students last week. A video recording shows bus driver Kelly Ross in a…
COLLEGEDALE, Tenn. (WDEF) - Scott Parent remembered Bob Gillisse as an exciting man, retired army, with an adventurous spirit. "Bob was a soldier first. He served his country, and he did the whole term that he needed to do and he…
The bill will end emissions testing in Hamilton County.
You pre-enroll family members who may someday wander from home. Police will be able to get photos out to officers better.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Former Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen visited the Scenic City today, as he spars with Republican Marsha Blackburn for Bob Corker's senate seat. Bredesen says it's odd and very telling to the nation's political climate that Senator…
Our 3 states all have different ways of dealing with Confederate Memorial Day
Scott Montgomery was originally charged with rape of a child under 13.
EPB is celebrating the work of some young poets.
You can vote once a day through May 4th. We have the link here.
It was unclear whether the shots were connected to the search for the 29-year-old suspect.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- A man is behind bars, charged with assaulting an officer Saturday. According to the arrest affidavit, Joshua Anthony Rucker was taken into custody after hiding in a shed on Portland Street. Rucker, along with the passenger in…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - Numerous officials have taken to social media to express their reactions to Sunday morning's fatal shooting at a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee.
Sweden’s public broadcaster says police in Oman have conducted two autopsies on the body of Grammy-nominated electronic dance DJ Avicii, who died Friday at age 28.
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF)- Two men are facing multiple charges after chase involving the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office. Deputies say on Saturday around 5:00 p.m.they saw a car traveling south on Highway 60 at a "high rate of speed". Officials…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say one person has been injured after running a vehicle into a brick wall at a restaurant in Birmingham.
(CBS News) -- A U.S. congressman is calling for restricting access to some assault weapons in the wake of a shooting at a Waffle House restaurant in Tennessee on Sunday that left four people dead.
ATLANTA (AP) - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says its crime lab is making progress in a yearslong effort to test thousands of backlogged sexual assault evidence packages.