MADISON, Ala. (WDEF) -- Police found a body in Lady Ann Lake in Madison, Alabama on Sunday. Officers said that around 7:30 a.m., they pulled a woman's body out of the lake. The Madison Police Department told WHNT they do…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — A massive tornado obliterated the modest one-story home that Kimberly Berry shared with her two daughters in the Mississippi Delta flatlands, leaving only…
UPDATE: Police are now saying three children and three adults were killed in the shooting at this private school. Authorities state the shooter was a 28-year-old female. She…
CALHOUN, Ga. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies shot and wounded a motorcyclist following a high-speed chase in northern Georgia, authorities said. The shooting happened early Sunday in Gordon County, where a motorcyclist sped away when Gordon County deputies tried to pull…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Police arrested a teenager on Saturday for bringing musket rifles to a college dorm. WVLT News obtained a police report, stating that Brandon Dowd brought two musket rifles to a dorm at the University of Tennessee.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of Tennessee Republicans began this year’s legislative session hoping to add narrow exceptions to one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, armed with the belief that most people — even in conservative…
COFFEE COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Franklin County NAACP held a press conference today in Coffee County, speaking up for the Williams-Clayborne Family. The Tennessee Highway Patrol…
By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Four of five former Memphis police officers charged with murder in the beating death of Tyre Nichols cannot work as law enforcement officers again in Tennessee, a state panel decided Friday.…
DECATUR, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a suspected tornado touched down early Friday in north Texas as a storm system threatens to spawn tornadoes in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee later in the day. Cody Powell, the emergency management coordinator…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama inmates could see more time behind bars under a bill approved Thursday in the Alabama Senate that restricts the use of good behavior incentives to shorten prison stays. Senators voted 30-1 for the bill that…
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (WDEF) -- More than 150 new jobs are coming to Northeast Georgia. Qcells has invested another $147 million to expand solar manufacturing in Bartow County. Senator Jon Ossoff's Solar Energy Manufacturing for America Act made this possible. Qcells…
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) joined leaders from GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Ontario Power Generation and Synthos Green Energy for an important announcement in Washington, D.C., about the future of new nuclear.
By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A small plane crash in Tennessee that killed weight-loss guru Gwen Shamblin Lara and six others likely happened when her husband piloting the plane — actor Joe Lara — became disoriented…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- He runs one of the world's largest independent fashion internet sites. Yet he does all he can to help underprivileged young women. He's been…
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Senate on Tuesday rolled out a budget that would slice $87 million from Georgia's public universities in a power struggle with the House over hospital funding and permitting. The budget…
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The Chevrolet Camaro, for decades the dream car of many teenage American males, is going out of production. General Motors, which sells the brawny muscle car, said Wednesday it will stop…
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing a spirited dispute Wednesday between whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s and the manufacturer of a squeaking dog toy that parodies the liquor's bottle and label. The question for…
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Two inmates in a Virginia jail used primitively made tools to create a hole in the wall of their cell and escape, only to be found hours later at an IHOP restaurant nearby, a sheriff…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Gov. Bill Lee has signed legislation that says local governments can't ban gas stoves, even though no current city in Tennessee is currently pursuing…
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers gave final passage Tuesday to a bill that would restrict vaping in public spaces. The state House voted 152-14 to pass Senate Bill 47, which would regulate vaping in…
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia conservatives are getting closer to a long-held goal of broadening state funding for private school tuition and home schooling, with a House committee passing a bill Tuesday that would give $6,500…
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A bill banning most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies in Georgia for transgender people under 18 is headed to Gov. Brian Kemp's desk after senators gave it final passage on Tuesday.…
DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating complaints from Honda Civic drivers that their steering can stick, causing a momentary increase in effort and increasing the risk of a crash. The probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety…
RANGER, Georgia (WDEF) - A north Georgia town could cease to exist if a bill is approved in the Georgia legislature. Ranger is a small town of about 140 people on the eastern…