ATHENS, Tennessee (WDEF) - The city manager of Athens, Tennessee is making the interim Police Chief his permanent choice. Fred Schultz took over after Cliff Couch was abruptly fire last October. Couch felt the firing was over concerns he raised…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) -- An online search by News 12 Now shows several Zelle payment app users were scammed out of thousands of dollars. Victims report they believed cyber thieves behind the scams were…
UPDATE: Response from Chattanooga Metro Airport officials this evening. "There are no policy changes at the moment." _______ UPDATE: Officials with the TSA say they won't enforce the mask mandate after today's ruling. _______ ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (WDEF)…
PALMER, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Grundy County Sheriff's Office and other agencies are investigating after a man detonated a pipe bomb on his property. Deputies responded to a home on Stagecoach…
FORT PAYNE, Alabama (WDEF) - Dekalb County authorities arrested a Fort Payne man last week with child sexual abuse. They began investigating information on 38 year old Carey Lynn Joseph Koss in Marhc. Last Thursday, they charged him with…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Australian Rules Football is by far and away the most popular team sport "Down Under." It's been around since the mid 1800's. But only an organized sport here in the…
https://youtu.be/j0UyYQvp-20 A man in East Ridge was tased during a felony traffic stop last Wednesday. This has prompted the NAACP to release a statement questioning how many times a taser should be…
RED BANK, Tennessee (WDEF) - Police say a break-in at a gas station over the weekend targeted vape cartridges. It happened Saturday night after 11 PM at the Gas N' Go on Dayton Boulevard in Red Bank. An…
PALMER, Tennessee (WDEF) - Grundy County officials release information on a pipe bomb case from over the weekend. On Saturday night, 33 year old Carl James Arnold showed up at an emergency room in Dunlap with wounds consistent…
Infowars filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the website’s founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones faces defamation lawsuits over his comments that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.
Law enforcement officers say three sheriff's deputies were shot and a suspect was killed during a confrontation in central Kansas.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Gas Prices are beginning to fall slightly from the excruciating highs of the past few months in the Chattanooga area. (more…)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP)- Ukraine’s state security service has posted a video of a Ukrainian politician held on a treason charge offering himself in exchange for the…
Many people use wearable devices to track their steps each day but some of these devices can even track your heartbeat to make sure it's healthy. Fitbit wants to take tracking both your steps and heart health to the next level.
CATOOSA COUNTY, Georgia (WDEF)- Multiple Georgia Republicans came to Catoosa County debate to see who should be the Georgia Republican option. Republican vying for a seat for State house district 1, 2, and 3, plus the state senate District 53…
RHEA COUNTY, Tennessee (WDEF)- Rhea County Sheriff Office Detective Rocky Potter says one person was recovered and pronounced dead on the scene. There was only one person as the other person thought to be there had left the location earlier.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lawmakers are advancing a bill strictly limiting the shackling of pregnant inmates. The bill would generally prohibit restraints of a pregnant inmate. More specifically, a pregnant inmate’s ankles, legs or waist couldn’t be shackled during…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee’s Community Tree Planting Program is accepting applications for a program that pays half the cost of public tree planting projects. According to a news release from the Agriculture Department, the grants can be used for…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating Lucky Charms cereal after dozens of consumers complained of illness after eating it. The FDA said Saturday it has received more than 100 complaints related to Lucky Charms so far this year.…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Ten people were shot and two others injured in a shooting at a busy shopping mall in South Carolina’s capital that authorities do not believe was a random attack. Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook said three…
COLLEGEDALE, Tennessee (WDEF)- After two years away due to the COVID-19 pandemic the SonRise Resurrection Pageant was back this Easter weekend. People flooded into Southern Adventist University to…
SALE CREEK, Tennessee (WDEF)- Easter Egg Hunts are nothing new, particularly for Hamilton county, but this Easter Egg Hunt was different. It was at the Old McDonald's Farm for Hamilton County's first event…
RHEA COUNTY, Tennessee (WDEF)- A rescue and recovery effort is being made after two men became trapped while working on an exterior wall from the inside in Rhea County. Rhea County Sheriff Detective Rocky Potter said two men dug a…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Twitter said Friday that its board of directors has unanimously adopted a “poison pill” defense in response to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s proposal to buy the company for more than $43 billion and take it private.…