CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (WDEF) - Every winter, hundreds of volunteers gather to help lay wreaths at the Chattanooga National Cemetery to honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country. On Saturday, those wreaths were retired. The removal of the wreaths…
CLEVELAND, Tenn. (WDEF)- The Bradley County Sheriff Deputies are getting an upgrade! Patrol deputies were fitted with brand new body cameras. All deputies have been trained on the new equipment. Officials…
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Larry King has died at age 87 after a half-century in broadcasting that included interviews with presidents, movie stars and ordinary Joes. His production company tweeted that he died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Planned Parenthood clinic in Tennessee has closed for the weekend after someone fired a shotgun at its doors. Media outlets report the Knoxville clinic was unoccupied at the time of the shooting and no one…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A magistrate judge will allow the release of a Tennessee man who carried flexible plastic handcuffs around the U.S. Capitol during the recent raid by Trump supporters. The Tennessean reports that Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Frensley determined…
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden pledged in his inaugural address to level with the American people - and the message from his first three days in office has been nothing if not grim and grimmer. He has painted a…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - For the first time, Tennessee takes the top spot as U-Haul's number 1 growth state. That's based on what they saw in 2020. "We have mountains on one side. We have really cool downtown locations like…
PHOENIX (AP) - Authorities say a Las Vegas-based tour bus headed to the Grand Canyon has rolled over in northwestern Arizona. A Mohave County sheriff’s spokeswoman says one person was killed Friday and two others were critically injured. The cause…
GENEVA (AP) - Olympic organizers in Japan and Switzerland want the Tokyo Games to open on July 23 just as scheduled. Also wanting that are athletes, fans and broadcasters whose plans for the 2020 Summer Games were postponed. But can…
PHOENIX (AP) - Legal sales of recreational marijuana in Arizona started on Friday, a once-unthinkable step in the former conservative stronghold. The state joins 14 other states in the country that have broadly legalized pot. The state announced Friday it…
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Prosecutors have secured a conviction in a false-imprisonment case against a former Transportation Security Administration agent who was accused of tricking a traveler into showing her breasts as she went through security at Los Angeles International…
DICKSON, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has charged a man with creating and disseminating a harassing photograph of social media. They say 28 year old Joshua Andrew Garton posted a photo showing people desecrating the grave of…
By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee is making moves to prioritize COVID-19 vaccinations for people in households with medically frail children and workers at jails and prisons. State Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey said Friday that those…
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) - Tensions were high during Thursday night’s school board meeting as members debated three options for sending Hamilton County students back to in-person learning. After about two hours of debate, the board ended up deferring that…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- The pandemic has affected many industries, but one of the hardest hit is dry cleaners. Old Fort Cleaners has been serving the Fort Oglethorpe community since 1987. [su_gmap width="700" height="700" address="1136 Cross St, Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742"…
WASHINGTON D.C. (WDEF) - While some National Guard troops are being kept in Washington for the upcoming impeachment trial, Tennessee's guardsmen have come home. More than 750 soldiers and airmen went to the capital for the inauguration. The Tennessee Army…
Hall of Famer and one-time home run king Atlanta Braves legend Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron passed away this morning at the age of 86.
The Hamilton County Health Department will begin taking first dose appointments again starting Friday, January 22 at 9AM.
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) - It was a passionate, lengthy conversation at the Hamilton County School Board meeting Thursday night. "If you guys are going to get up here and call us, call me a name, call me a coward.…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is extending a statewide order requiring face masks in public to help slow the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Ivey announced the decision at a news conference at the state…
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia officials have now identified five cases of a COVID-19 variant in the state, raising the urgency to get people vaccinated. State Department of Public Health Commissioner Kathleen Toomey reported the latest figure at a news conference…
By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Federal prosecutors say a Tennessee man who carried flexible plastic handcuffs around the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 raid by Trump supporters is a danger to his community and a…
WASHINGTON D.C. (WDEF) - The National Transportation Safety Board has issued their preliminary findings in the deadly Meigs County school bus crash. It does NOT identify a "Probable Cause" at this point. The report details what they know of how…
MARION COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) - Ashley Moffitt had been looking for her dog, Jax, for weeks. She had just about given up hope when she was contacted that Jax had been turned in to MARC in Marion County. Now, Ms.…