UPDATE: HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office said they have found the student responsible for making threats toward Orchard Knob Middle School one week ago. One juvenile student now faces the following criminal charges. Commission of…
MURRAY COUNTY, Ga. (WDEF) -- A Murray County man has been arrested on charges of trafficking methamphetamine, the sheriff's office said. Murray County authorities arrested Joseph Lamar Henderson of Chatsworth. They said he had active felony warrants. [caption id="attachment_1659246" align="alignnone"…
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Authorities are asking for the public's help in finding a man who has been missing since October 2018. Parker Morris, 32, went missing at…
HIXSON, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The time has come. Big Chicken in Hixson will be opening on Monday, March 4, 2024. Big Chicken's Hixson location is at 5118 Hixson Pike, near the Northgate Mall. It will open at 11 a.m. The…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Girl Scout Cookie season is here, but it won't be for long. The 2024 cookie season generally lasts from January through April. Locally, Girl Scouts will be…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - Four Hamilton County schools were honored Friday morning for their voter registration efforts. The Chattanooga School Arts and Sciences, the Chattanooga School of the…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - The sale has gone through to turn another of Chattanooga's old Southside foundries into a new mixed-use development. The Eureka Foundry shut down after 121 years last…
WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — Family, friends and classmates planned to gather Friday at a church outside Atlanta to say farewell…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Generations of Girl Scouts were celebrated on the first day of March as they enter prime cookie selling season. The News 12 This…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- After a tragic wreck that killed a mother and her son on Frazier Avenue, the city implemented a new traffic calming pattern.…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- For this week's Thursday Throwback, we continue to look at a series from 30 years ago about churches in our area. A topic they were struggling with in 1994 is still being debated in 2024: Can…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- On September 12, 2019, 20-year-old Darrell Hill was murdered during the commission of a robbery in Cromwell Hills. Thursday, the last suspect…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Parents of young children in Hamilton County are being asked to evaluate if their kids are ready for kindergarten. This is being conducted…
UPDATE: CLEVELAND, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Cleveland Police Department has shared an update regarding a Thursday morning crash in Cleveland. While authorities are still investigating the incident, they identified the two people killed in the crash and the type of…
DALTON, Georgia (WDEF) - On Thursday, U.S. Marshals arrested a suspect in Florida on charges from a road rage incident in North Georgia. The incident happened on West Walnut Avenue in Dalton on January 28. Investigators say two drivers were…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers rushed to protect in vitro fertilization services Thursday after fertility clinics shut down in the wake of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are children under the state wrongful death law. Facing public…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Leap days happen every four years, and some businesses are offering deals to the public to celebrate the extra day this year. Here is a list of deals you may be able to find on February…
BENTON, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Hikers will not have typical access to Benton Falls temporarily starting on March 5 for hazardous tree removals. The Cherokee National Forest announced on Thursday that…
Willy Wonka's chocolate factory is a magical, colorful place with a chocolate river, edible flowers and Oompa Loompas bustling about. But a "Willy Wonka" event in Glasgow, Scotland that was billed as an immersive experience turned out to be less…
EAST RIDGE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- A real estate development group has a redevelopment planned for East Ridge. Urban Story Ventures announced on Wednesday they recently purchased a 13-acre…
Washington — President Biden is set to visit the southern border on Thursday. But his won't be the only visit to the region— former President Donald Trump will also make an appearance in a different Texas border town, in a split-screen evident of…
Eagle Pass, Texas — A federal judge in Austin on Thursday blocked Texas state officials from implementing a sweeping immigration law that would have allowed them to arrest, jail and prosecute migrants who cross into the U.S. illegally. The Justice Department…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities on Thursday released a video showing a person of interest in their investigation of an explosive device that detonated outside the Alabama attorney general’s office last weekend. The short security camera clip shared by the…
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- A student is facing charges for making threats against other students at Signal Mountain Middle/High School. The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office said the school's SRD learned of the threat on Wednesday, February 28, at 10…