By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - NASCAR Hall of Fame promoter and track Bruton Smith has died at the age of 95. His company, Speedway Motorsports, said he died of natural causes. The company currently…
By JILL COLVIN and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Katie Britt has won the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama, defeating six-term Congressman Mo Brooks in a primary runoff after former President Donald Trump endorsed and then…
WASHINGTON D.C. (WDEF) - Today's testimony at the January 6th hearing involved the Georgia election of 2020. Democrats called two election officials in Georgia and a poll worker who says her life was…
By JEFF AMY and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - State Rep. Bee Nguyen will be the Democratic candidate for Georgia secretary of state in November. Nguyen beat former state Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler in a primary runoff election. Nguyen…
By JEFF AMY and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - Trucking company owner Mike Collins has beaten former Democrat Vernon Jones in a runoff to become the Republican nominee for a Georgia congressional district east of Atlanta. Collins was…
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia Democrats were choosing their nominee for secretary of state in primary runoff elections. They're voting on a position that assumed new importance after former President Donald Trump cast doubt on Georgia’s 2020 election results, making false…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - As media try to find out more about the man charged with shooting three older members of an Alabama church, they've found a Chattanooga connection. 70 year old Robert Findlay Smith is charged with shooting and killing…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The two Republican candidates in Alabama’s U.S. Senate primary runoff on Tuesday can each boast that at one point they had Donald Trump’s endorsement in the race. Trump first backed congressman Mo Brooks before rescinding that…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Friday afternoon, state and local leader ceremonially signed a bill that now makes Tennessee the state with the toughest penalties in the entire nation for violent criminals. (more…)
ATLANTA (AP) - Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker is acknowledging that he has a second son whom he has not previously mentioned publicly. The disclosure on Wednesday draws renewed attention to his previous outspoken calls for Black men to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Chattanooga native and country music artist Conner Smith has been keeping quite busy. Conner is about to tour with Thomas Rhett, and recently performed at both the Honey Bee Festival…
By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia and Seattle and Kansas City, Missouri, were the newcomers among the 11 U.S. sites picked to host games at the 2026 World Cup, while Baltimore, Cincinnati,…
ATLANTA, Georgia (WDEF) - "We have a salad plate and some popcorn chicken." "Four cases of Gatorade." "Salad items, fruits. A lot of veggies..." "Unknowingly walk out with what their body needs most this…
BEECH CREEK, Tennessee (WDEF) - It has now been one year since Summer Wells disappeared in upper East Tennessee, and investigators still have no idea what happened to her. "At that time, no one imagined we would still be…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Dolly Parton is donating $1 million to pediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. The new gift is one of several Parton has made to the center over the years, including a…
By DEEPA BHARATH and PETER SMITH Associated Press ANAHEIM, California (AP) - Bart Barber, the newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, is vowing to expedite sex abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. He spoke a day…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Like most performers, country music artist Sophia Scott is pumped to be back on stage again. Her new EP "One of These Days" just came out June 2. She spent…
ROME, Ga. (AP) - A runaway dump truck struck and killed two men in northwest Georgia on Tuesday, leaving two others with serious injuries. Local news outlets report the brakes failed on a dump truck that was carrying asphalt for…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Tennessee Department of Education has released the 2021-22 Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) state-level test results. And the administration says they like what they see. The TCAP test are used to show how the state…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - Tennessee executions are on hold while the state fixes their quality control issues with lethal injections. And now an expert says that could be a long time coming. So the execution of Chattanooga's Harold Wayne Nichols…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- CMA Fest wrapped up in Nashville Sunday night. Most of the country artists News 12 spoke to at the event have a connection to the Tennessee Valley - like Hannah…
TENNESSEE (WDEF) - The TWRA is reminding everyone that fishing is free on Saturday. Tennessee is suspending their license requirements, and the fee that goes with it, for a Free Fishing Day. They encourage everyone to take a kid out…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee officials say former Alabama quarterback Jay Barker has entered what Tennessee prosecutors called a “best interest” plea to a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment after an arrest in January on a felony domestic violence charge.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Grab those cowboy hats and boots - CMA Fest is back! The annual country music festival and fundraiser had to be canceled the last two years, because of the pandemic.…