MURPHY, North Carolina (WDEF) - Investigators with the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office have charged a Murphy, North Carolina man with sexual assault of a child. 41 year old Barry Wade Allen was indicted back in July, but fled the area.…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - After weeks of discussion, Hamilton County commissioners finally take a vote on the future of a confederate statue at the courthouse. They voted 6-2 against removing it. The bust of Confederate General Alexander P. Stewart has been…
DETROIT (AP) - Volkswagen is recalling nearly 74,000 SUVs in the U.S. because a fuel pump flange can develop cracks and leak gasoline. The recall covers Touareg SUVs with gasoline engines from 2004 to 2007. It's part of a larger…
Victim shot in the back and in the hand.
NASHVILLE – Tennessee Army National Guard Military Police from the 117th Military Police Battalion, headquartered in Athens, began their deployment to the VI over the weekend, and continued on Monday and Tuesday. A total of twenty personnel from the 117th…
the Chimney Tops Trail will reopen Oct. 6
Gilliam told deputies he was bored and wanted to see how people would react.
Saturday night some 2,000 people lined the Trenton street for Emerson's Light the Night Spectacular.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - A trial date has been set for one of the other men accused in the 2014 Lookout Valley triple homicide. Skyler Allen's trial is set to start April 10th, a day after the four-year anniversary of…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - A judge has set a trial date for the driver in a Tennessee school bus crash that killed six elementary school students last year. Johnthony Walker's trial date is Tuesday, February 27th. Walker faces 34 charges, including…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation is helping students at Red Bank Elementary School learn about their watershed. The Tennessee Student Environmental Alliance was presented a check for more than seventy eight thousand dollars today.…
In light of the Las Vegas shooting, concert festival organizers are reflecting on the situation and taking a look at safety.
ASHLAND, Miss. (AP) - A north Mississippi student is dead and two are injured after a car ran under a school bus.
MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) - The Navy says the pilots killed in a training jet that crashed Sunday in Tennessee were from Louisiana and Mississippi.
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) – The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department will offer flu shots at all their locations beginning October 9, 2017. Anyone 6 months or older is encouraged to get the vaccine. Medicare, TennCare, and select other insurance providers…
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) - North Hamilton County Council of the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce sponsors the Harvest Food Drive in conjunction with the Soddy Daisy Food Bank Oct. 6 and 7. The Harvest Food Drive raises funds and accepts…
FORT PAYNE, Ala. (WDEF) -- The Fort Payne Police Department says a pedestrian was killed on Glenn Boulevard Monday night.
WASHINGTON (WDEF) — At the Senate education committee hearing on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said that “Tennessee, Louisiana, and New Mexico have taken the most advantage of the flexibility we offered under the law in…
NASHVILLE – Family members, friends and clergy reported 32% of the cases of financial exploitation against an elderly person in Tennessee last year according to the Adult Protective Services (APS) division of the Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS). The…
Chattanooga, Tenn. -- Two women were seriously injured in separate house fires within the past two weeks in Lookout Valley. Both were pulled from their burning homes by firefighters and neighbors, and then transported to burn centers in Austell, Georgia and…
A local math and science teacher knows how to make learning fun, and she's earned this week's Golden Apple Award.
"I have been searching and searching for the words to type in this caption."
“The 15 counties within these five judicial districts border the Interstate 75 corridor, which has long been known as a major path of transportation for the illegal opioid market."
It now includes more than 16,000 communities across the country.