CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Friday afternoon, state and local leader ceremonially signed a bill that now makes Tennessee the state with the toughest penalties in the entire nation for violent criminals. (more…)
EAST RIDGE, Tennessee (WDEF) - Food City will hold a grand opening for their new store in East Ridge next week. It officially opens bright and early Wednesday morning at 8 AM. Food City closed down their long time East…
TENNESSEE (WDEF) - In a year of rampant inflation, it is not hitting Tennessee's tech and two year colleges. The Tennessee Board of Regents voted on Friday to hold the line on tuition next year at Chattanooga State, Cleveland State…
ATLANTA (AP) - Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker is acknowledging that he has a second son whom he has not previously mentioned publicly. The disclosure on Wednesday draws renewed attention to his previous outspoken calls for Black men to…
DAYTON, Tennessee (WDEF) - The La-Z-Boy plant in Dayton was evacuated today due to a fire. There are no reports of injuries at this point. Fire officials are not talking about details of the fire yet.
Chattanooga, TN (WDEF) - Investigators are searching for a person of interest in connection to the fire at Highland Park Baptist Church on June 10. The fire was intentionally set according…
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Hamilton County School Board met Thursday night for its monthly meeting. It was the first of its kind since the tragic Uvalde school shooting and Chattanooga mass shootings.…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Hamilton Place announces four new stores are coming to the mall this summer: Rose & Remington – Upper level, located near Sephora, at the top of the Food Court stairs Rose & Remington is a fast-growing women’s…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Officials have voted to suspend the business permit of a Tennessee nightclub near the scene of a mass shooting where three people were killed and 14 others…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Chattanooga native and country music artist Conner Smith has been keeping quite busy. Conner is about to tour with Thomas Rhett, and recently performed at both the Honey Bee Festival…
By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia and Seattle and Kansas City, Missouri, were the newcomers among the 11 U.S. sites picked to host games at the 2026 World Cup, while Baltimore, Cincinnati,…
(CHATTANOOGA) - Ten years ago, the Riverbend scored a big homecoming show to close out that year's festival. Country singer Lauren Alaina was just starting her professional…
COLLEGEDALE, Tennessee (WDEF) - A Facebook post alleging a Collegedale Police Officer had been racist during a citation has been thoroughly investigated and those claims…
LAFAYETTE, Georgia (WDEF) - Authorities in Walker County are cracking down on their sex offernder registry. They are asking for the public's help in finding five men who they say have absconded. If you have information on any of them,…
These 12 artists, who all live and/or work in the Chattanooga area, painted this year’s murals on the second side of the EPB 10th Street Substation: (left to right) Rea Shaw, Sara Tolbert, Jerome Foster, Ann…
CLEVELAND, Tenn. (WDEF)- A man is dead in Bradley County after an officer involved shooting early Thursday morning. (more…)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- The Chattanooga Police Department responded to two shootings late Wednesday evening. (more…)
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) -- Bobby Terry and his wife were visiting from Alabama Tuesday night when their evening plans were suddenly changed. "My wife and I were in our room and we noticed the lights flickering on and off," Terry said.…
ATLANTA, Georgia (WDEF) - "We have a salad plate and some popcorn chicken." "Four cases of Gatorade." "Salad items, fruits. A lot of veggies..." "Unknowingly walk out with what their body needs most this…
ROSSVILLE, Georgia (WDEF) - A developer has completed the purchase of the old Peerless Mill in Rossvile, Georgia. Tyler Cauble of Hamilton Development and real estate investors Jess Reed and Brandon Thornberry want to turn the old mill into a…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) -- According to residents at Patton Towers, the air conditioning has been out in most the building for months. "It's been two months since the air been out. I feel like it…
BEECH CREEK, Tennessee (WDEF) - It has now been one year since Summer Wells disappeared in upper East Tennessee, and investigators still have no idea what happened to her. "At that time, no one imagined we would still be…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Dolly Parton is donating $1 million to pediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. The new gift is one of several Parton has made to the center over the years, including a…
By DEEPA BHARATH and PETER SMITH Associated Press ANAHEIM, California (AP) - Bart Barber, the newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, is vowing to expedite sex abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. He spoke a day…