HAMILTON COUNTY, Tennessee (WDEF) - The TBI has issued a preliminary report on an officer-involved shooting case last night involving a Hamilton County Deputy. Sheriff's officers were chasing a suspect on Lee Highway around midnight. The chase continued until deputies…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Chattanooga police made two calls to an apartment complex near the interstate last night. The first was an assault at the apartment on North Concord Road just after midnight. The suspect had fled the scene by the time…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Federal officials held a public meeting to discuss where the future Chattanooga federal courthouse will be. (more…)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- You can expect to see a lot more food trucks on the road in the Tennessee Valley, thanks to Launch Chattanooga's Kitchen Incubator. Let's…
Ooltewah, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Veterans celebrated flag day at Ooltewah Walmart by fundraising for new flags at Collegedale Veterans Memorial Park. Flag day is celebrated every year on June 14. The holiday honors the American flag and commemorates the adoption…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Chattanooga Police are investigating a fatal shooting before dawn this morning. The victim showed up at the hospital with a gunshot wound and died from his injury. Police identify the victim as 24 year old Cordarrius Bailey.…
WASHINGTON D.C. (WDEF) - The National Transportation Safety Board has issued their final report on what went wrong in the Erlanger Air Medical crash from March. The Life Force helicopter was transporting a patient in the North Carolina mountains at…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF)- A Tennessee legend would have turned 71 years old today. (more…)
CHEROKEE NATIONAL FOREST, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Great Outdoors Fund is asking for volunteers to help them improve facilities at the Chilhowee Day Use Area of the National Forest near Benton on June 24. Here is their release: POLK COUNTY,…
By PETER SMITH Associated Press Abstract: The Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back into its fold. It has rejected an appeal by the California megachurch of its ejection for having women pastors. Southern Baptist church representatives…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Due to an increase in stray and surrendered animals, local shelters are reaching maximum capacity. Shelters all across the country have been experiencing a space…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- A local organization is kicking off a new initiative to replace weathered or damaged American flags in the community. Comcast's veteran-focused Employee Resource Group, known as…
One vision of the future Red Bank Central Park presented on the Save Red Bank Central Park Facebook page. This is not an official…
CHICKAMAUGA, Georgia (WDEF) - A former church elder has been charged with hundreds of counts of sexual battery and exploitation of a disabled adult in northwest Georgia. 75- year old Dennis Laman faces the charges in Walker County. A police…
MURPHY, North Carolina (WDEF) - Investigators in North Carolina believe a weekend shooting was an accident. Sheriff's officers responded to a shooting on Saturday. The 19 year old from Union County, Georgia, died from his wounds. Cherokee County investigators interviewed…
SIGNAL MOUNTAIN, Tennessee (WDEF) - Signal Mountain Police confirm there seems to be a bear wandering through neighborhoods. They have had numerous reports of the bear making it's way…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Abba’s House in Hixson launched a food pantry Tuesday…
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service reported roughly 300,000 complaints of mail theft in 2021, more than double the prior year's total.
Ten people were wounded in a mass shooting early Tuesday in Denver in an area where basketball fans had been celebrating the Nuggets first NBA title win.
A helicopter accident in northeastern Syria over the weekend left 22 American service members injured, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit civilian buildings in a central Ukrainian city overnight, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than two dozen in a warehouse and a residential building, regional officials…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- The city of Chattanooga held an affordable housing fair this evening. (more…)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- On Monday afternoon, T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital Unveiled it’s renovated and expanded Pediatric Intensive Care Unit It represents an 8 Hundred Thousand Dollar investment to the P.I.C.U. " This new renovation really improves what we can do…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) released new information about a 1986 cold case. "Any investigator that's worked a homicide will tell you: to know the victim is to know the killer," TBI Special Agent Brandon…