ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans controlling a Georgia House committee have approved a bill to prevent election officials from proactively sending mail ballot request forms to voters ahead of an election. If it makes it through both chambers and gets Gov.…
Officials say New York, Connecticut and New Jersey will require visitors from states with high infection rates to quarantine for 14 days.
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s legislature on Tuesday passed hate crimes legislation deemed essential by state leaders, sending the measure to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk. The price Republicans exacted for moving that legislation forward was simultaneous passage of a bill that…
Rope found hanging in Wallace's garage was coincidence TALLADEGA, Alabama (AP) - The rope found hanging in Bubba Wallace's garage at Talladega Superspeedway was not a hate crime. Federal authorities said the rope had been hanging at the Alabama track since…
Nashville has entered a new phase of reopening as COVID-19 cases are on the rise, but officials say the city won't advance past this phase for at least a month.
See where DeKalb & Jackson Counties rate.
Despite early signals, Tennessee lawmakers pass nothing on racial issues.
While Hamilton County new cases are getting better, they are getting far worse across the state.
High-altitude fireworks show will be proceeded by an Air National Guard flyover of Athens
The fetal heartbeat bill bans abortions after about six weeks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Portraits honoring four former House speakers who served in the Confederacy are gone from the U.S. Capitol. The paintings were removed Thursday after Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared that the men “embody the violent bigotry and grotesque racism…
“It is with our deepest regret that we inform you of the off duty passing of Officer James D. Perkins."
The police chief of Tennessee’s capital city has announced that he'll retire amid calls for his resignation and a wave of protests nationwide over policing.
The rate of Tennesseans filing for unemployment continues to decrease after 19,925 claims were processed last week.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tensions erupted on the Tennessee House floor after Republican lawmakers refused to advance a resolution memorializing a young a black woman shot and killed in her car earlier this year. Democratic members on Tuesday had sought…
ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in the back after the fleeing man pointed a stun gun in his direction is going to be charged with felony murder and 10 other crimes. Fulton County District…
Soaky Mountain Waterpark in Sevierville opening June 27
increases in hospitalizations in June were mostly concentrated in the Memphis area and southeast Tennessee, including Chattanooga.
Tennessee officials are seeking a fast-tracked decision by the state Supreme Court to block a judge's order to offer absentee voting to all eligible registered voters during the coronavirus pandemic.
NEW YORK, New York (WDEF) - One of the young teens charged in connection to the stabbing death of Tessa Majors, has been sentenced. Majors was a Barnard College freshman from Virginia who was the Grand-Niece of Tennessee football legend…
Family devastated, mayor says police dept. moral plummeting after protests over Friday's police shooting
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - Tennessee's legislative plaza continues to be the focus of George Floyd-related protests. For three days now, protesters have tried to enter the plaza and occupy it. But today they were met by a line of Tennessee…
CARTHAGE, Tennessee (WDEF) - Investigators have charged a suspect with attacking a police officer in Middle Tennessee last week. The TBI handled the investigation. They say Ralph Overstreet was trying to break in to the City Hall of Carthage on…
Another death in Rossville, first fatalities at Fort Oglethorpe facility.