Tennessee House to oversee Juneteenth bill
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Tennessee is looking to make Juneteenth a state holiday. The bill passed the state Senate last week. Today, a House committee is scheduled to take a look…
Soldier arrested for online exploitation of minor in Franklin County
FT. CAMPBELL, Kentucky (WDEF) - A soldier based at Fort Campbell has been arrested on charges of exploiting a minor from our own backyard while he was on deployment. The tip claimed that Adrian Tejeda had been in contact with…
Bill nears passage to ban outside election cash in Georgia
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's DeKalb County could keep its $2 million in private grant money to help run elections, under a bill nearing final passage. But the next Georgia local government official who accepts an…
Georgia bill is latest GOP effort targeting prosecutors
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A new Georgia commission to discipline and remove wayward prosecutors would be the latest move nationwide to ratchet up oversight on what Republicans see as “woke prosecutors” who aren't doing enough to…
Nashville shooter was ex-student with detailed plan to kill
By JONATHAN MATTISE, TRAVIS LOLLER and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The former student who shot through the doors of a Christian elementary school in Nashville and killed three children and three adults had drawn a detailed…
Nashville school shooter had drawn maps, done surveillance
By JONATHAN MATTISE, TRAVIS LOLLER and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The suspect in a Nashville school shooting on Monday had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance before killing…
Police identify Nashville shooter and victims
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Nashville Police identified the Covenant School shooter as 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale. Police identified the victims as well. …
Body found in northern Alabama lake
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…
Tornado recovery tough in Mississippi, one of poorest states
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…
Six killed, active shooter at Nashville Covenant School
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…
Georgia deputies shoot, wound motorcyclist after chase
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…
States' divisions on abortion widen after Roe overturned
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…
NAACP holds press conference for family that was broken up
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…
4 ex-officers in Tyre Nichols case barred from police work
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.…
Suspected tornado touches down in northern Texas
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…
Lawmakers vote to rein in use of good behavior incentives
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…
Qcells expands, creates another 160 jobs in Cartersville
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…
TVA Leaders Part of New Nuclear Announcement in Washington
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.
NTSB: Pilot error in crash killing diet guru Gwen Shamblin
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…
More to the Story with Staley: Donating Dresses
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…
Georgia House and Senate in power struggle over budget
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…
GM to stop making the Camaro but a successor may be in works
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…
Supreme Court chews on Jack Daniel's dog toy dispute
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…
2 escape jail and go to IHOP, where patrons report them
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…