CHATTANOOGA/DALTON (WDEF) - Local firefighters will mark the anniversary of 9/11 on Sunday. In Chattanooga, the annual Memorial Stair Climb will be at the Lookouts AT&T Field. It starts with a ceremony open to the public at 8:30. Then firefighters…
SUMMERVILLE, Georgia (WDEF) - After a week of water insecurity from the weekend flooding, Summerville is finally getting some of its water back. The water system had been knocked out by the…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - TSA improvements at Chattanooga's Metro Airport will create a temporary inconvenience for flyers over the next couple of weeks. They are upgrading their screening equipment. Unfortunately, that means they will be down to just one lane for…
JACKSON COUNTY, Ala. (WDEF) -- Scottsboro's Unclaimed Baggage, America's only lost luggage retail store, celebrated the end of its 50th Anniversary Road Tour today. The store's road tour team…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) -- For the first time since 2019, Chattanooga State Community College held its college and career fair in person today. One member of the city chamber noticed a lack of…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - The Chattanooga Police Department had a busy last 24 hours. One person was carjacked in the 1700 block of Kelly Street, and a woman had her car stolen this afternoon in…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Four shootings over the past six days in one particular area is what the Chattanooga Police Department is dealing with. All of the sites where the shootings occurred are within three-and-a-half miles of each other. Last Saturday,…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Thousands of people in cities across the U.S. have finished Eliza’s run. Friday morning's nationwide event was organized as a tribute to Eliza Fletcher, who was forced into a vehicle during her pre-dawn run a week…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - UTC reports they have a huge incoming class of freshman this fall. 2,229 freshman are hitting campus this fall, which is more than an 8% jump in size. This continues the enrollment growth the university was seeing…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Moon River Festival is back this weekend for its fourth year in Chattanooga. Organizers say they have a packed lineup - from Madeline Edwards and Mat Kearney, to Local…
ROSSVILLE, Georgia (WDEF) - The Catoosa County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting last night in the Lakeview community. Officials say it happened sometime between 8:30 and 10 PM on Nawaka Avenue near Lake Winnie. A man in his twenties…
A 31 year old woman was reportedly carjacked in Chattanooga Friday morning.
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Police say one of the victims died in a double shooting Thursday night. It happened just before 9 PM on Rubio Street near Wilcox Boulevard in East Chattanooga. When police arrived, they learned of another victim about…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) -- For 70 years, Queen Elizabeth II served as an inspiration to many throughout both England and the world. Her Majesty passed away Thursday at the age of 96. The mood suddenly…
FORT OGLETHORPE, Georgia (WDEF) - U.S. Marshals and Chattanooga Police found their suspect this afternoon across the boarder in north Georgia. They wanted Gregory Lamar Gillespie for a carjacking three days ago on E.…
STEVENSON, Alabama (WDEF) - Reports in Alabama say the head of North Alabama Electric Cooperative has struck a deal over bribery accusations. According to court papers filed last week, Bruce Purdy will plead guilty in federal court to a bribery…
SUMMERVILLE, Georgia (WDEF) - There is some good news about water in Summerville tonight. City officials say two of the filters at the water treatment plant are back in operation. They say they could get water back in the system…
FORT OGLETHORPE, Georgia (WDEF) - Park Rangers have charged a 69 year old bicyclist after a confrontation inside the Chickamauga Battlefield. They say the Ringgold man rode his bicycle into a construction zone, hit a worker and then attacked him.…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Can parents really relate to the trouble school kids face today? School shootings, sexting, meth and fentanyl, and the devaluation of a college degree are all fairly…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) -- On Friday, September 2, Eliza Fletcher was in the middle of her regular early morning jog when she was abducted off the streets of Memphis. One day later,…
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF) - A Moped rider was seriously injured in an early morning wreck in Cleveland. It happened on Keith Street at Northwood Drive just after 5 AM. Cleveland Police investigators say both the Moped and the vehicle were…
Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has been placed under medical supervision because doctors are “concerned for Her Majesty’s health.”
HIXSON, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The new bivalent Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are now available to residents in the Tennessee Valley and North Georgia. As always, local officials are…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Two teenagers were shot somewhere in Chattanooga earlier this evening. They both walked into the Emergency Room with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. Investigators are not clear on where it happened at this point. The victims are an 18…
