NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge will not block a Tennessee law that makes it a felony for anyone other than election officials to distribute absentee ballot applications. The decision by U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson in Nashville came…
DALTON, Georgia (WDEF) - The GBI has charged a Dalton man with child molestation and pornography counts. The investigation began into 20 year old Zachary Moore after a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about child…
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed an executive order establishing the Asian Carp Advisory Commission.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ashley McBryde, Dan + Shay, Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Combs, Sam Hunt and Thomas Rhett top the 2020 CMT Music Awards nominations with three each. The fan-voted music video awards show was delayed from the summer because…
NASHVILLE (WDEF) - The State of Tennessee is calculating just how much students lost by not going to class during the pandemic. The Department of Education estimated data regarding learning loss by students after schools closed. Their preliminary data shows…
Online sports betting begins in Tennessee on November 1st.
Marquita Bradshaw: “It’s been over a year ago since I took a leap of faith and launched my campaign for US Senate."
“Jenkins exploited as many as 150 girls for his perverse satisfaction"
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A feared increase in Alabama's coronavirus caseload after Labor Day get-togethers has yet to materialize two weeks after the holiday. That's got health officials cautiously optimistic about the state's progress in the pandemic. New cases are…
Investigators at Great Smoky Mountains National Park are trying to identify who mounted a cardboard sign with a racist message and hung the skin and head of a black bear over one of its signs.
How Tennesseans will be able to vote has been debated, specifically absentee voting.
ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Biden is using a campaign cash advantage over President Donald Trump to add Republican-leaning Georgia and Iowa to his paid media footprint, bringing the Democratic challenger’s television and digital battleground map to an even dozen states.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In the early 2000s, a harvest of pine trees on Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau led to a remarkable discovery. Once sunlight hit the ground, native grasses and wildflowers that had lain dormant for decades began to spring…
CLEVELAND, Tenn (WDEF) - The Foundation house is a nonprofit organization in Cleveland, that provides last refuge for Mothers and Women in crisis pregnancies . The organization is the only maternity home within 150 miles for mothers exiting crisis lifestyles. The…
The haul includes a loaded Glock .380 caliber found at the Chattanooga airport.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee man has pleaded not guilty to fatally stabbing his mother at least 70 times. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that an attorney for Joshua Matthew Carr entered the plea Friday in Sevier County General…
Walmart, Amazon and other corporate giants donated money to a Tennessee state lawmaker’s reelection campaign after she used social media to amplify and promote the QAnon conspiracy theory. That's according to an Associated Press review of campaign finance records and…
FORT PAYNE, Alabama (WDEF) - The State Bureau of Investigation will look into an officer involved shooting incident last night in northeast Alabama. The incident happened around 11:30 PM on I-59 between Fort Payne and Collinsville. A deputy fired at…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — University of Alabama trustees are expected to vote on a proposal to change the name of a building on the Tuscaloosa campus that is currently named after a Confederate general. AL.com reports that the agenda for…
(AP) - Several boats docked at a pier in Pensacola, Florida, have sunk as Sally moved over the Gulf Coast. Pensacola police spokesperson Mike Wood also said Wednesday he doesn’t know the whereabouts of a replica of one of the…
ATLANTA (AP) — Leading congressional Democrats are reacting furiously to lightly-substantiated claims that immigrants held at a detention center in Georgia are undergoing questionable hysterectomies. In a complaint filed Monday, a nurse alleges that the Irwin County Detention Center performed…
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - 24 year old Lizarrius Rice from Chattanooga was shot to death over the weekend in Knoxville. Two men were shot Saturday night at some apartments in the downtown area. Rice was shot multiple times and succumbed…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) - Park officials at the Great Smoky Mountains on Monday identified a man who died at campsite 83 at Hazel Creek Trail. He was 43 year old Patrick Madura from Illinois. Friday night, rangers found a bear…
BOAZ, Ala. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say a pilot whose plane crashed in Alabama on a trip from Georgia to Mississippi planned to later fly to Arkansas for his 77th birthday. Etowah County Sheriff Jonathon Horton tells The Gadsden Times…