CENTRE, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say a work-release inmate who left a job site in Alabama has been recaptured in Georgia. Al.com reports that 40-year-old Jimmy Wayne Blair Jr. walked away from a construction site about 10:30 a.m. Monday in…
Charged with causing I 75 wreck in Ooltewah that killed 6 people
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia lawmaker says Scrappy the Owl, the mascot at the university where five cheerleaders have been kneeling during the national anthem, had no business leading students in a march through campus to support the cheerleaders.…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The truck stop chain controlled by the family of Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has publicly distanced itself from former employees charged with defrauding customers. But court records show the board…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The iconic Grand Ole Opry House in Tennessee's capital city will undergo a $12 million expansion to add parking, larger retail space and an enhanced area for backstage tours. The Tennessean quotes Ryman Hospitality CEO Colin…
Ooltewah High School's Principal has been named Principal of the Year.
SPRING CITY, Tennessee (WDEF) Two of the three football players injured in a weekend crash remain in the hospital on Monday. Authorities say the vehicle crashed Saturday night in the Spring City area. The driver lost control of the Chevy…
Students at Normal Park Elementary are learning about local residents, and learning how to tell stories about themselves.
Judge William R. Anderson has recused himself from hearing the attempted aggravated rape case against five Grundy County High football players.
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tennessee (WDEF) - Hamilton County authorities now say that firefighters discovered two bodies in a home that burned Sunday evening. The Highway 58 Volunteer Firefighters got the call around 6PM of a house fire with entrapment. It happened…
"Try to never be serious and have a good time in everything... and I'm prone to fib a lot too..."
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) Another major drop in gas prices pushed a few pumps under the $2 mark for the first time since before the hurricanes. GasBuddy.com reports that prices fell 9.3 cents last week in Chattanooga. The average price is $2.21…
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) - A group of Georgia cheerleaders say they'll take a knee in the stadium tunnel when the national anthem is played at Saturday's homecoming game since their university moved them off the field after an earlier demonstration.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee education officials believe nearly 10,000 assessment tests across the state were scored incorrectly. The Commercial Appeal reports that about 9,400 of the approximately 600,000 TNReady tests that were taken in the last school year were…
ATLANTA (AP) - The average gas price in Georgia has decreased more than 30 cents over the past month. AAA spokesman Mark Jenkins told WXIA-TV that, "Motorists have enjoyed a monthlong plunge at the pump after prices skyrocketed because of…
DALTON, Ga. (WDEF) -- A local Ministry is celebrating twenty years of providing addiction recovery programs to the community. Several men who have over come addictions, gathered at Providence Ministry in Dalton to recognize the ministry's program anniversary. The men's…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- A group of people is remembering and honoring the victims that lost their lives in lynchings in Hamilton County.
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Firefighters were called to a house fire on Dolly Pond Road with possible entrapment shortly after 6 p.m. Firefighters say they have not been able to confirm if anyone was inside the house. Officials say…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Chattanooga Fire Department was called to Infantry Road Sunday afternoon on reports of a house fire.
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say a 3-year-old girl is dead after she fell into a grease pit at an Alabama ice cream shop and drowned.
ATLANTA (AP) - A shiny orange fish living in a north Georgia river is being considered for federal protection as a rare species.
BRADLEY COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Bradley County authorities say no charges will be filed after a pedestrian was fatally struck by a vehicle on North Lee Highway.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - While Federal Emergency Management Agency denials and reversals have roiled some communities following natural disasters, officials in Tennessee's capital have been unusually successful at winning their appeals.
ATLANTA (AP) - Police have charged an Atlanta woman with murder in the deaths of two of her sons, ages 1 and 2.