LAFAYETTE, Georgia (WDEF) - Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson has been one of the leading opponents to the manufacture and sale of marijuana in the state. Walker is a past president of the Georgia Sheriff's association, where he has fought…
WASHINGTON D.C. (WDEF) - Both U.S. Senators, Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker, have signed on to a bill that would strengthen background checks for gun buyers. They join almost three dozen co-sponsors. Senator Alexander says we need to make the…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama lawmakers this session could consider an overhaul of the state's juvenile justice system.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - In the last two years, six cases of sexual misconduct by faculty or staff at the University of Tennessee Knoxville led to those employees resigning or disciplinary action being taken.
HIRAM, Ga. (AP) - Authorities say arson is to blame for a fire that destroyed five homes and damaged at least 14 others in a Georgia subdivision.
ATLANTA (AP) - Leaders of the Georgia House and Senate on Thursday adopted an expanded sexual harassment policy requiring state lawmakers to receive training every two years.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - President Donald Trump has chosen a Georgia sheriff and a former police chief to fill vacant U.S. marshal posts in the state.
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - A private school in east Georgia intends to start drug-testing its oldest students.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - At least seven people are recovering after a van crashed into the kitchen area at the back of a Savannah restaurant.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say a man has been charged with selling stolen cattle in Tennessee.
ATLANTA (AP) - The first half of this year's legislative session was dominated by an overhaul of the state's adoption code, which passed both houses in early February.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Licenses for hunting and fishing are going on sale this weekend in Tennessee.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper is urging Tennessee's Republican-led legislature to use $29 million-plus in federal money on backup paper ballots, citing concerns from national security experts over vulnerabilities of paperless systems to hacking from Russia…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Three of four former employees of truck stop chain Pilot Flying J have been convicted in connection with a rebate scam. They have been on trial since November in Federal court in Chattanooga. Former company President Mark…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Rep. Diane Black is defending efforts to extend an emissions loophole benefiting a Tennessee-based trucking company whose entities, executives and family gave her gubernatorial campaign $225,000, as The New York Times reported. Campaign spokesman Chris Hartline…
CAVE SPRING, Georgia (WDEF) - A crash this morning below Rome, Georgia claims the life of a Lyerly man. It happened around 8 AM on Blacks Bluff Road near Cave Spring. An SUV coming out of a curve crossed over…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Republican-led House committee has unanimously voted down legislation to let Tennessee handgun permit holders bring guns most places, including hospitals and professional sports arenas. In the Civil Justice Subcommittee Wednesday, Gov. Bill Haslam's administration, the…
ALTAMONT, Tennessee (WDEF) - The flu outbreak is now shutting down school systems around the Cumberland Plateau. Grundy County will close schools for the rest of the week. Students were already scheduled off for a professional development day Friday (now…
SYLVANIA, Alabama (WDEF) - Sylvania School was put on lockdown Tuesday after reports of a stranger on campus with a gun. School officials called the Sheriff's Department, who got a deputy on the scene in three minutes. The suspect had…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) - Three people have died following an early-morning fire at a South Nashville home.
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee woman and her caretaker daughter have died in a house fire.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - Local, state and federal authorities in Tennessee have padlocked 23 stores and indicted 21 people they accuse of selling candy and other products containing a form of marijuana.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman is out of the hospital after heart surgery. A statement from Siegelman's family says he was released from St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham on Tuesday. Siegelman had heart surgery last week…
SCOTTSBORO, Alabama (WDEF) - Four dogs involved in a fatal mauling back in December on Sand Mountain have been euthanized. The dogs attacked two women on County Road 121, west of Rainsville, Alabama. 24 year old Emily Colvin was killed…