NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The men's basketball game between No. 18 Tennessee and Memphis was canceled about an hour before tipoff Saturday due to COVID-19 issues within the Tigers' program. The Volunteers had warmed up and were ready to play…
Chattanooga, TN (WDEF): Just before 2:45 AM Saturday morning, Chattanooga Police responded to a non-life threatening gun shot victim on the 1400 block of Rossville Avenue. Investigators learned that the 21 year old male victim had been involved in a…
Hamilton County, TN (WDEF): A women died from suffering a stab wound Friday night. Just after 9:30 Friday night, reports came in of a stabbing in the 9300 Block of Bill Reed Road, Ooltewah. Deputies located a 34 year old…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Capitol rioter who attacked police officers working to hold back the angry pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6 was sentenced Friday to more than five years behind bars, the most so far for anyone sentenced in the…
All the former hostages from a U.S.-based missionary group kidnapped in Haiti have been flown out of the country after a two-month ordeal, the leader of their Ohio-based missions organization said Friday, as he also extended an offer of forgiveness…
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. officials intensified calls Friday for unvaccinated Americans to get inoculated in the face of the new omicron variant that contributed to a record number of infections in New York and threatened to wipe out a…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright told jurors at her manslaughter trial on Friday that she “didn’t want to hurt anybody” that day, saying during sometimes tearful testimony that she shouted a warning about using…
RINGGOLD, Georgia (WDEF) - A new hospital will be coming to Battlefield Parkway in Ringgold. The Catoosa County Board of Commissioners and the Development Authority are expressing their strong support of…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - This was the second and final day people could pick up their angel tree gifts. With more than 13 hundred families being served, nearly 4,000 kids will have gifts under…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - The Weather forecast is changing plans for the placement of holiday wreaths on Saturday at the National Cemetery. The noon program at the cemetery has been cancelled. Instead, volunteers will…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - The Chattanooga Motorcar Festival today announced the date for their third event next year. The next Festival will be on the weekend of October 14-16, 2022. The event returned this fall after a layoff in 2020…
OOLTEWAH, Tennessee (WDEF) - Publix Super Markets announces a new location in the Chattanooga area. The grocery chain has executed a lease for Publix at The Enclave in the East Hamilton area. The store will be at the intersection of…
COLLEGEDALE, Tennessee (WDEF) - Collegdale Police got an early call to the Loblolly neighborhood off Tallant Road. It came at 3:19 AM. A caller said that a person was holding hostages. The caller and another person managed to escape by…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The remaining members of a U.S. missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago in Haiti have been freed, Haitian police and the church group said Thursday. (more…)
If you've lived in the area for quite some time, you may not have heard of Resolute Forest Products. You may know them as Bowater. Today, the…
SODDY-DAISY, Tennessee (WDEF) - The students at Soddy Daisy Middle School received a special dose of Christmas cheer this morning. Principal Jane Reynolds decided to spread some…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - An American Idol winner is coming to UTC this spring to teach. Ruben Studdard edged out Clay Aiken to win the second season of the singing show in 2003, where he won the nickname the Velvet Teddy…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - The problem with more online Christmas shopping is where will people go to sit on Santa's lap? For generations, parents took their kids to visit Santa while…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Mayor Kelly just returned from the White House. "When the White House calls, it's the President so you go." Kelly says of the ten new mayors invited, he represented the smallest…
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (WDEF)- This week there is extra holiday cheer at the Hamilton County Criminal Courts Clerks office. Since taking the position in 2014, Criminal Court Clerk Vince Dean…
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Resolute Paper Company announced on Thursday that they are ending paper production at the old Bowater plant in Calhoun. They will continue making tissue there, but the plant will lost more than half of their…
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (WDEF)- Kids will be rocking around the Christmas tree with presents under the tree thanks in large part to the Salvation Army angel tree program. Now a lot of Chattanooga Hamilton…
In Game of Thrones, the character Lord Eddard Stark said in the first season that "Winter is coming." For Hamilton County schools, it's the winter break that approaches quickly.…
EAST RIDGE, Tennessee (WDEF) - School board member Tucker McClendon says he will run for the vacant District 8 seat on the Hamilton County Commission. That's the district now represented by Tim Boyd, who recently announced he will not run…