Tennessee feels effects of Christmas tree shortage
This year's shortage could ripple into coming years.
Retired Chattanooga employees demand answers about new health care
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - A group of retired Chattanooga city employees gathered together at the Chattanooga City Council agenda meeting demanding answers about their new health care Tuesday night. In November the council approved a resolution that changes some retirees'…
Chattanooga council approves contract for replacing glass on Holmberg Bridge
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - The Chattanooga City Council approved a resolution for a contract to replace the glass on the Holmberg Bridge during the council's Tuesday night agenda meeting. The resolution authorizes a contract with Ross Glass & Aluminum, LLC…
Advance Financial Hosts Drive to Collect 2,000 Pounds of Food this Holiday Season
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – Award-winning financial services company Advance Financial is running its annual food drive to benefit residents of East Tennessee and other communities across the state. Now through December 12, the company will have collection boxes at all…
City of Chattanooga, U.S. Army partner to assist with veteran employment
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - Earlier today, the Chattanooga Police Department and City of Chattanooga became the newest partners with the U.S. Army, by joining the U.S. Army Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS) Program. The Chattanooga mayor and police chief gathered in city hall for this…
Habitat for Humanity uses grant funding for two new Chattanooga homes
Chattanooga, Tenn. (December 5, 2017) – Habitat for Humanity of Tennessee is directing $31,000 in state grant funding to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Chattanooga to assist in building two new homes in the Scenic City. The funding comes as…
CARTA bus drivers hold rally
Some CARTA bus drivers say they're overworked, so they held a rally to make people aware of the issue.
URGENT: O negative blood donations needed at local Blood Assurance
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) — Blood Assurance is calling on community members to make a blood donation at a local donor center or bloodmobile drive. The nonprofit regional blood organization presently has less than a day's supply of O negative blood,…
Golden Apple: Michael Kortum
A teacher at CSAS has found a way to bond with his kids over Algebra, earning him a Golden Apple Award.
Cleveland Police looking for guys suspected of lifting rent money
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF) - Cleveland Police are looking for two men suspected of stealing rent money from a mail drop. Investigators say they watched the victim drop the money for their apartment rent into a box. Then surveillance cameras caught…
Dalton Police say this man punched a Belk security guard
DALTON, Georgia (WDEF) - Dalton Police are asking help to identify a shoplifting suspect. They say this is the male suspected of shoplifting a shirt from Belk's department store at the Walnut Square Mall. Police say he entered the store…
Pipe bombs in the pickup and the house, but why?
13 devices have been found and destroyed
5 year old killed in Georgia bus crash
LIBERTY CO., GA (WDEF) - One child was killed when a school bus crashed into a tree this morning near Savannah, Georgia. 21 children were on the bus, all Elementary school students. The fatality was a five year old girl.…
Dade County investigates multiple homemade explosives
(state trooper) "has never experienced anything like this in his 20-something years of law enforcement."
Fort Payne man charged in second school break-in
FLAT ROCK, Alabama (WDEF) Jackson County investigators have made an arrest in a break-in at the Flat Rock School on Sand Mountain. They charged 41 year old Billy Edward Blake of Fort Payne on Monday. He faces charges of 3rd…
Grundy County School Board votes and elects new chairman
GRUNDY COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) - The Grundy County School Board voted and elected Phyllis Lusk as the new school board chairman during their board meeting Monday night. Last month Robert Foster resigned from the role. Also during meeting the board…
Trenton PD, GBI, Georgia State Patrol work to contain possible 'homemade bomb'
UPDATE: Police say they found pipe bombs in the car. They went to the suspects house and found more explosives. The count is 13 bombs at the moment. Police have sent them to a shooting range to detonate them. ____…
CARTA Workers plan rally protesting forced overtime, unsafe vehicles & discrimination Tuesday
Chattanooga, Tenn. (WDEF) - CARTA Transit workers plan to protest bus driver conditions during a rally Tuesday. Workers are protesting topics such as being forced to work overtime beyond their physical limits, discrimination by management, and unsafe vehicles on the road.…
Suspect in custody after placing Walker Co. Schools on lockdown
WALKER COUNTY, Ga. (WDEF) - Four local schools in Rossville were on lockdown this afternoon while police attempted to apprehend a suspect who ran from officers. Sheriff Wilson says it started when deputies conducted a traffic stop outside of Rossville,…
Neighborhood watch program helped BCSO in standoff
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- No matter how many officers a county employs, not every community can be carefully monitored by the police 24/7. That's where a neighborhood watch program comes in, and in cases like the Bradley County standoff last…
Charges Dropped Against Whitfield Coach For Not Reporting Alleged Abuse
WHITFIELD COUNTY, Ga. (WDEF) - Charges against Whitfield County coach Lamar Cofield, for failing to report suspected child abuse, have been dropped. District Attorney Bert Poston confirmed today that the law did not require Cofield to make the report, therefore…
Cooking Fire Sends Woman to Local Hospital
Chattanooga, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Chattanooga firefighters responded to a duplex fire at 4518 Norcross Road shortly after 9:00 this morning. Battalion Chief Chris Warren said a resident from one side the duplex told firefighters that she put some fries on…
Police investigate two vandalism cases in Hixson
A school and athletic field were vandalized over the weekend in Hixson and police are trying to determine if the cases are related.
Body-cam shows Georgia officer saving life of newborn baby
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Savannah police are crediting an officer with saving the life of a choking newborn baby by racing to her apartment and then using chest compressions to restart the infant's breathing. Dramatic video from an officer's body-worn…