SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Dolly Parton is celebrating gifting her 200 millionth book as part of the Imagination Library program. To celebrate, she is sending special bookmarks in September to seven lucky people. The organization will randomly hide seven bookmarks…
By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit area woke up Wednesday to some of the worst air quality in the United States as smoke from Canada's wildfires settled over most of the Great Lakes region and unhealthy…
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Federal prosecutors plan to ask a judge to dismiss convictions for wire fraud and to resentence a former high-ranking Atlanta city official who is currently serving a 14-year prison sentence stemming from…
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Abstract: The Supreme Court has ruled that state courts can act as a check on their legislatures in redistricting and other issues affecting federal elections. The court rejected arguments by North Carolina Republicans that could…
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Five teenagers were killed when their car ran off a curving street and landed in a southwest Florida retention pond where it went underwater, authorities said. It happened either late Sunday or early Monday, killing…
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Bishop who oversees Catholics in our area is retiring. The Vatican announces that Bishop Richard Stika of the Diocese of Knoxville is retiring after leading East Tennessee Catholics since…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WDEF) -- The Biden Administration announced on Monday how much each state will get for expanding broadband internet as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. They dedicated $1.3 billion for Georgia internet expansion and $813 million for Tennessee.…
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia congressman moved Friday to stop a federal agency from imposing new speed restrictions on boats and ships in order to protect critically endangered whales. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Workers at 150 Starbucks locations will strike in the coming week over what their union says is a clash over decor supporting LBGTQ+ causes, but the company denies it's…
The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is stepping down after less than a year on the job. GBI Director Mike Register said he's accepted an offer to serve as public safety director…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- It has been more than 80 years since Larry Ponder's Father and Uncle were wrongfully dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Navy. John and…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's legislative office building in Nashville was placed on lockdown after multiple Republican leaders received what House Speaker Cameron Sexton called “a white powder substance” in the mail. “The sixth floor has been placed on lockdown…
MACON, Ga. (AP) — A doctors' group that promotes plant-based eating and animal rights is makin' a fuss over the Macon Bacon baseball team. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has sent a letter urging the Georgia summer collegiate team…
ATLANTA, Ga. (WDEF) -- A federal correctional officer in Atlanta was indicted and arraigned for using excessive force on an inmate and writing a false report to justify it, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Justin Newkirk recently appeared…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama legislators will hold their first meeting next week to determine what the state's new congressional map should look like after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the state's existing plan unlawfully diluted the power of Black…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- It's the first day of summer, and that means a lot of things. One of those things is heat, especially here in our area.…
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia election officials said Wednesday that they would need six to nine months to install new software and hardware to update the state’s voting system to protect against security flaws, pushing…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - Governor Bill Lee says now is the time for local school districts and law enforcement to apply for new state funds to improve school security. The legislature this year…
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two years after a former Gettysburg College student finally saw charges filed over her 2013 campus sexual assault, the man suspected of sending her a Facebook messages that said, “So I raped…
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A former Augusta city commissioner was sentenced Tuesday to three years in federal prison after he was convicted of destroying records and lying about it to investigators. Sammie Lee Sias, 68, had his punishment handed down…
ATLANTA, Georgia (WDEF) - The Secretary of State says that Georgia's Election Board today dismissed the controversial investigation into the 2020 election results in Fulton County. The investigation found that the numerous allegations against the county election department and two…
ATLANTA (AP) — The owner of an auto repair shop who paid a former employee with 91,500 oily pennies has been ordered by a judge to pay nearly 4 million more cents. A federal judge ruled that Miles Walker, who…
ATLANTA (AP) — Entering court using a walker, a doctor's note clutched in his hand, 70-year-old Dana Williams, who suffers serious heart problems, hypertension and asthma, pleaded to delay eviction from his two-bedroom apartment in Atlanta. Although sympathetic, the judge…
NEW YORK (AP) — A fire at a New York City e-bike shop quickly spread to upper-floor apartments and killed four people early Tuesday in the latest deadly blaze linked to exploding lithium…