FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) - A coroner in northwest Alabama says the body of a second missing fisherman has been recovered from the Tennessee River. Colbert County Coroner Carlton Utley tells local media the body of 26-year-old Jeremiah Sanders was found…
(WDEF) - Chattanooga Police have connected a man shot in the abdomen with a crash that occurred on Brainerd road early this morning. Chattanooga Police responded to the 3600 block of Brainerd road around three a.m. on multiple reports of shots fired.…
BRADLEY COUNTY (WDEF) - A two-day roundup of individuals with outstanding arrest warrants was a success, officials with the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office report. Sheriff Eric Watson said some 33 arrests were made over the two days of searching. Arrests were made…
ATLANTA - Mindful of Atlanta's bid to host the Super Bowl, Falcons owner Arthur Blank said Friday he opposes a so-called "religious freedom" bill approved by the Georgia Legislature that protects opponents of same-sex marriage amid concerns it could lead…
MEMPHIS (WVLT/WREG) - A man has been arrested after he allegedly attacked a family member with a two-pronged meat fork. Carlos Brown was arrested late Friday night and charged with aggravated assault. Officers were called to Methodist North Hospital around 9…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say a worker has died while working on a construction project in Shelby County. Mickey Keaton, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff's Office, said the construction worker died Saturday at the site where a…
ALBERTVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say an Alabama attorney and occasional fill-in judge has been arrested on child porn charges. Local news media reports that 52-year-old Vincent Smith is charged with four counts of possession of child pornography. Smith was…
A body was found in Dalton Saturday. According to police, the body was floating in a creek and was found by kids who were fishing in Mill Creek near Underwood Street. No word if foul play was involved. No names…
WHITESBURG, Ga. (AP) - Authorities say a 14-year-old girl has died after she and her sister were pulled from the Chattahoochee River in east Georgia. Carroll County Emergency Management Agency spokesman Tim Padgett tells multiple news outlets that the teenager…
WATERTOWN, Tenn. (News Channel 5) - A Wilson County 19-year-old woman has been charged in the homicide of her 4-month-old baby girl. Deputies with the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office arrested Kenya Jarrett of Watertown Thursday. The incident happened on Aug.…
MOSCOW (CBS News) - A Dubai airliner with 62 people on board nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball early Saturday while trying to land in strong winds in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, killing all aboard, officials said.…
MEMPHIS (WMC) - Two former FedEx employees and a New York co-conspirator pleaded guilty to a shipping theft scheme that defrauded FedEx and wireless carriers out of more than $1.7 million. Akeem Gowdy, 23, Tavaris Mickens, 23, both from Memphis, and…
It's getting pretty hot in the Tennessee Valley, after several grass fires broke out this week.
Chattanooga, TN, (WDEF) - A man was hit by a car on Broad Street Friday night at Charger Drive. According to police at the scene, the man stumbled into the street and was hit by a car driving down the…
BRUSSELS (CBS News) - After an intense four-month manhunt, police on Friday captured the top fugitive in last year's deadly Paris attacks in the same Brussels neighborhood where he grew up. Salah Abdeslam, 26, is a childhood friend of the…
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A traffic stop led to the arrest of two men on Friday in Bradley County. Deputies initiated a traffic stop of a Chevrolet Impala Friday for a possible window-tint violation on Harrison Pike. As the officer exited his patrol vehicle,…
ROSWELL, GA (CBS46) - Two people were killed and another person was injured when police say a car swerved and crashed into a bus stop in Roswell on Thursday. Curtis Freeman, 55, was killed in the crash Thursday. Freeman was a long-time…
Washington, D.C. (WDEF) – In a letter today to Secretary of the U.S. Navy Ray Mabus, U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and U.S. Representatives Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) and Tom Graves (R-Ga.) asked the U.S. Navy to…
PIKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Bledsoe County's sheriff has jailed his own 26-year-old son on drug, gun and assault charges. Deputies say they found 11.1 grams of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and a loaded weapon when they raided James Michael Morris' Pikeville…
ATHENS, Ala. (AP) - Two football coaches at an Alabama high school are accused of having sex with students. Both coaches were arrested within a span of a week. The Limestone County Sheriff's Office says in a news release that…
The Bright School, in partnership with the Chattanooga Area Food Bank, distributed 225 gallons of fresh milk to East Side Elementary School students at risk of hunger Thursday. The gallon of milk was in addition to the regular 30 pounds of…
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