Chattanooga, Tenn. (WDEF) - Signal Centers’ Adult Services will host the 2nd annual Mario Kart Race on October 6th. Signal Centers is located at 109 N. Germantown Road. The race will begin at 10:30 a.m Friday. The participant-driven project encourages a whole lot…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - Chief David Roddy announced additions and changes to the Chattanooga Police Department's Executive Staff today. All five chiefs of the CPD Executive Staff are long-time Chattanooga Police Department veterans with two decades or more experience each. Chief…
a "hard-core, card-carrying Tennessee conservative"
ATHENS, Tennessee (WDEF) - Jared Lackey, the father who grabbed his son from Elementary school and ran, has been found. McMinn County authorities say Jared Lackey took his 7 year old son out of Etowah City School on Monday morning.…
"While I have loved being a mayor and a governor, I don't feel the same call to run for Senate at this point,"
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox is running for governor. Maddox, a Democrat, made the announcement Thursday morning with the release of a video on social media. Maddox says the state has a "crisis in our leadership" because…
part of the 117th Military Police Battalion headquartered in Athens with a company in Cleveland.
SKYLINE, Alabama (WDEF) - A Jackson County deputy resolved an outstanding warrant during a traffic stop late Tuesday night. Deputy Travis Stevens pulled over a vehicle on County Road 25 in Skyline. He found the driver, 26 year old William…
ATLANTA (AP) - Authorities say a freight train has crashed into the bedroom of a home in Atlanta, sending a man inside to a hospital. Atlanta Fire Rescue officials said in a brief statement before dawn Thursday that "multiple cars"…
After investigators said the Las Vegas shooter used bump stocks to transform semi automatic weapons into fully automatic, lawmakers are thinking about banning the device.
Chattanooga Police are searching for a missing 13 year old girl who left home.
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) Chattanooga Police hope you can help them identify a pair of robbery suspects. It happened at the Tiger Mart on Hunter Road around 11 pm on Monday night. Officers say the two suspects entered the Mart and tried…
KINGSPORT, Tennessee (WDEF) - Officials at the Eastman Chemical Plant call it a "process upset." But people around the Kingsport plant say they heard two explosions and saw a plume of smoke rise from the plant this morning. The company…
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.…