UPDATE: The Governor's lawyers have asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit. They argue that Alabama has the authority under the Emergency Management Act. ______ SCOTTSBORO, Alabama (WDEF) - Three residents of Scottsboro are challenging Governor Kay Ivey's face mask mandate…
FAIRMOUNT, Georgia (WDEF) - The GBI has arrested the police chief and one of his officers in Gordon County. They worked for the police department in the town of Fairmount, east of Calhoun. Chief Chandler Walter and Officer Olan Mark…
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia reported over 4,800 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Friday, the highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic. That caps a week that also saw the state report its highest-yet death toll. Those…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that Tennessee will not be allowed to enforce one of the strictest abortion bans in the country as a legal battle over the measure’s constitutionality moves through court. U.S. District Judge…
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz on Friday offered dueling endorsements of the two leading Republicans running for the U.S. Senate from Tennessee, Bill Hagerty and Manny Sethi. The heated race has become increasingly…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama reported more than 2,200 new coronavirus cases, the highest single-day increase in cases since the pandemic began. The spike came after several days of declining case numbers and as a number of school systems announced…
ROME, Georgia (WDEF) - Investigators have charged three men with the murder of two women in northwest Georgia. Back in May, the bodies of half-sisters, Vanita Richardson and Truvenia Campbell were found under the Etowah River Bridge in Rome. The…
ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing a dispute between Georgia’s governor and the state’s capital over restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic has ordered the two sides to try to reach a settlement. Atlanta is among more than a dozen…
ATLANTA (AP) — Surging numbers of COVID-19 deaths continued in Georgia as the number of confirmed cases in the state surpassed 150,000. The state Department of Public Health reported 81 deaths Wednesday, the second-highest number reported so far in the…
Even President Trump has said Hagerty has a “real primary.”
A federal judge will not block three Tennessee laws dealing with absentee voting for the Aug. 6 primary election.
Dr. Manny Sethi campaigned in Ooltewah this week
DALTON, Georgia (WDEF) - State numbers show another area nursing home is leading a surge in Covid-19 deaths in our area. We have seen deadly outbreaks at facilities in Athens-TN, Rossville and Fort Oglethorpe. Now Ridgewood Manor in Dalton is…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville International Airport has opened its fourth major concourse, featuring six domestic gates. The airport says the new Concourse D opened Friday, with 115,000 square feet of terminal space and gates serviced by Southwest Airlines. The…
CROSSVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - A TBI investigation has brought a New York woman to East Tennessee. They were investigating a drug overdose in Crossville back in July of 2018. Investigators say Julia Meade took a fatal dose of a drug…
Georgia’s largest school district has become the latest to move to all-remote learning to start the school year.
Georgia Democrats will sift through over 100 applications Monday to decide who will replace Rep. John Lewis on the November ballot.
ATLANTA (AP) — John Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, has died. He was 80. Lewis was the last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists,…
"Georgians don’t need a mandate to do the right thing."
Moved from August 4th to Dec. 31st because of pandemic
New details released by the National Transportation and Safety Board show Dale Earnhardt Jr. and a pilot struggled to open an airplane’s wing emergency exit as the aircraft began to burn and fill with smoke.
Plans for the weeklong celebration of rock ‘n’ roll icon Elvis Presley on the 43rd anniversary of his death have been shaken up by the new coronavirus, but organizers are forging ahead with a combination of in-person and online events at Graceland next month.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s health order requiring masks in public places has taken effect as COVID-19 hospitalizations reached another new high in the state. The Mobile County public school system also announced Thursday that students will not return to…
ATLANTA (AP) — Two more Georgia school districts will not allow students to return to classrooms when schools resume, but instead offer instruction online only because of the coronavirus. School officials in Fulton and Cobb counties made that announcement on…