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…
" I refuse to sit back and watch as disastrous policies threaten the lives and livelihoods of our citizens."
The number of new and continuous unemployment claims in Tennessee fell slightly from the previous week.
The Mayor of Atlanta accused President Trump of violating the Atlanta order during his speech there on Wednesday
KNOXVILLE (WDEF) - A chase on I 40 in the Knoxville area led to a fatal shoout Tuesday evening. TBI investigators say their preliminary information is that a state trooper spotted a suspect who was wanted on murder charges in…
The voting process will drag to February of 2021 at the earliest
New York now making visitors from 22 states give contact info when you fly in or face a $2000 fine.
Alabama will require masks in public after a surge of coronavirus cases filled hospitals.