CHATSWORTH, Georgia (WDEF) - A former jailer in Murray County has been sentenced for sexual contact with an inmate. 26-year old Bryson Wallace Starks was sentenced to five years in prison and ten years of probation. He will also have…
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF) - Bradley County authorities warn about a scam in their community involving fake health department employees. The scammers go door to door and present false identification that they work for the health department. They say they need…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (WDEF) - The Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with the city of Chattanooga and member businesses, announced today the launch of the Healthy Chattanooga Coalition. The Healthy Chattanooga Coalition is…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (WDEF) - With flu season right around the corner and the delta surge in full swing, many people are wondering about the possibility of a “twin-demic’ and if a Covid booster shot…
Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles told Congress through tears Wednesday that the FBI and gymnastics officials turned a “blind eye” to USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar's sexual abuse of her and hundreds of other women.
Sequoia National Park is shut down, its namesake gigantic trees potentially threatened by two forest fires burning in steep and dangerous terrain in California’s Sierra Nevada.
Nicholas weakened to a tropical depression as it crawled from Texas into southern Louisiana on Wednesday, unleashing heavy rain across a landscape where Hurricane Ida destroyed thousands of rooftops now covered with flimsy tarps.
President Joe Biden has invited CEOs and business leaders to the White House to discuss COVID-19 mandates.
Nearly every nation is coming up short — most of them far short — in their efforts to fight climate change, and the world is unlikely to hold warming to the internationally agreed-upon limit.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday emphatically defeated a recall aimed at kicking him out of office early, a contest the Democrat framed as part of a national battle for his party’s values in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
FLAT ROCK, Alabama (WDEF) - A Sheriff's K-9 sniffed out a suspect on Sand Mountain on Monday. DeKalb County deputies went to a home in Flat Rock on some outstanding warrants. While they were talking to Audrey Denis Welden, Carlton…
TDOT officials say they have completed Phase I of the I 24/ 75 interchange project. The work ran from June 2019 through August.
ROSSVILLE, Georgia (WDEF) - Walker county Sheriff Steve Wilson is warning residents about car thefts and burglaries after a recent incident on Saturday. Surveillence video shows two, possibly three suspects entering several vehicles and stealing two vehicles in the…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Republican Greg Vital easily won Tuesday's special election for the District 29 seat in the Tennessee House. The district represents communities in northern Hamilton County including Birchwood and Ooltewah. The former Commissioner in Collegedale has…
FLORENCE, Alabama (WDEF) - The Chattanooga Mocs football team traveled to Florence last Saturday to face the North Alabama Lions. U-T-C had to tread lightly on enemy turf because U-N-A features a live…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Chattanooga area Burger King franchises are open for more than just customers on Tuesday. Hometown Hospitality, which is a Burger King franchisee, is holding a job fair with the goal of hiring 150 workers today in…
Imagine spending a half a century in the classroom. That the's reality for LeNet Solomon-Parker. She's spent 50 years creating a loving and caring atmosphere for her students.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - The Volunteer State is breaking national records, and not in a good way. "Hospitalizations and ICU admits currently are at their highest level ever," says Dr. Jay Sizemore,…
ATLANTA (AP) - The U.S. Department of Justice has announced a statewide civil rights investigation into Georgia prisons. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, who oversees the department’s civil rights division, says the civil investigation will be comprehensive but will…
By JOSEPH PISANI and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers Amazon wants to hire 125,000 delivery and warehouse workers and said Tuesday that it is paying new hires an average of $18 an hour in a tight job market as more…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (WDEF) - The Tennessee Nurses Association says that before the pandemic hospitals were already facing a staffing shortage, but covid-19 has made the problem much worse. With hospitalizations rapidly increasing- nurses are overworked,…
COVID-19 deaths and cases in the U.S. have climbed back to levels not seen since last winter.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced a statewide civil rights investigation into Georgia prisons, citing particular concern about violence.
Tropical Storm Nicholas hit the Texas coast early Tuesday as a hurricane and dumped more than a foot of rain along the same area swamped by Hurricane Harvey in 2017.