DUNLAP, Tennessee (WDEF) - The ATF, Chattanooga Bomb Squad, 12th Judicial Drug Task Force and the Sequatchie County Sheriff's Office were all involved in a raid on the Cumberland Plateau on Tuesday. After a month-long investigation by the Sheriff's Office,…
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF) - A Bradley County constable has been arrested. The Sheriff's Office says 50 year old Timothy Ray Colbaugh was charged on Monday. He faces two counts of official misconduct, but authorities are not releasing more at this…
GRUETLI-LAAGER, Tennessee (WDEF) - A Palmer, Tennessee man has been charged with the death of a man from Gruetli-Laager. 44 year old Rodney Sanders died on November 3rd. 46 year old Charles Dewayne "Swain" Layne has been charged with second…
CHATTNOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - The Hamilton County Coalition is giving back to the community in more ways than one. The Coalition serves ten counties in southeast Tennessee including Hamilton, Bradley, and Grundy, with specialization in overdose prevention and intervention. Since…
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee- Thanksgiving Day is one of the busiest travel days of the year, but like everything else, it will look different this year due to COVID. AAA is forecasting a decrease in travel this year compared to previous years.…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Christmas is right around the corner, and the Salvation Army is in need of more adopters for its Angel Tree program. The organization says right now there are still over 1,500 angels left to be adopted…
A tall metal monolith was found embedded into the ground in a remote area of the Utah wilderness.
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) - The coronavirus pandemic is not stopping the Black Friday shopping. Hamilton Place and Northgate Mall will once again be closed this Thanksgiving for the 5th consecutive year, but will reopen on Black Friday at 7…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Chattanooga Fire investigators have charged an 11 year old boy with setting multiple fires at a home in his neighborhood. The fires happened just after 4 PM on Maude Street, near Lincoln Park and Erlanger. Firefighters arrive…
SEVIERVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - The CDC wants people to stay home for Thanksgiving, so you can image what they think about Black Friday shopping at outlet malls. They consider in-person shopping at crowded stores a high-risk activity for spreading Covid-19.…
"the law got called to Wal Mart and Austin was with the two boys who are of age that we told them he was with. I guess they had either hemp or marijuana"
CHATTANOOGA, TN (WDEF) - The Erlanger Institute of Healthcare and Innovation has added a Sterile Processing Pathway for students at Howard. It's an intensive curriculum that also exposes students to opportunities in medical research and innovation. Nina Deaton is the…
"Some of these smaller counties are already struggling. Their tax collections are down and we need that emergency covid bill that the house has passed back in May to help counties and cities."
"When you are in public life, people remember the last thing you do.”
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - For some patients, recovering from COVID-19 can be a long and grueling process. While there are some COVID cases that recover in two to six weeks after infection, there are also those who take much longer…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee would no longer prohibit parents from refusing vaccinations of their children under a newly filed proposal as COVID-19 cases continue to rise. Tennessee law currently allows parents to cite several exemptions to not immunize their…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that Tennessee can begin outlawing abortions because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. The ruling Friday also said Tennessee can prohibit an abortion if it’s based on the race…
A Dalton organization is still giving out food this Thanksgiving despite COVID cancelling its annual Thanksgiving Day buffet. Last year, Believe Greater Dalton had its inaugural grateful community meal in Downtown Dalton. COVID made a buffet impossible this year, but…
WHITFIELD COUNTY, Tennessee- Whitfield County has Georgia's highest COVID-19 outbreak over the days two weeks based on new cases per 100,000 people. "We just lost one of our five commissioners last week, Rodger Crossen, he died last Tuesday with COVID,"…
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General Motors will recall and repair nearly 6 million big pickup trucks and SUVs equipped with potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators.
Construction road closures will be suspended in both Tennessee and Georgia for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
A woman was shot Sunday evening on East 13th Street in Chattanooga.
U.S. health officials have allowed emergency use of a second antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19. It's an experimental medicine that President Donald Trump was given when he was sickened last month. The Food and Drug Administration…