HAMILTON COUNTY (WDEF) - The Hamilton County School Board may be less than 24 hours away from having to change one of its policies, after the state house passed House Bill 1944, otherwise known as the Obscenity Bill. It…
Mar 29, 2022 7:05 PM By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia senators are scrapping plans to seek further big changes in state election law, beset by strong opposition from local election officials who say their offices would…
HAMILTON COUNTY (WDEF) - A Hamilton County judge has been appointed to a state level position. Judge Tom Greenholtz, who has been serving as a criminal court judge in Hamilton County, was appointed to the Court of Criminal Appeals…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - From the Smokies to Birmingham and several communities in between, we've seen a rash of wildfires and brush fires since the weekend. They all have one thing in common. High winds that have dried out the undergrowth…
ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta's airport plans to spend $55 million to replace X-ray machines at the main security checkpoint with more advanced scanners to screen carry-on bags. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport officials say the new technology…
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) - Dollywood amusement park in Tennessee says it has temporarily closed a ride developed by the same maker of a free-fall ride from which a teen dropped to his death at a Florida attraction. Dollywood told…
(WDEF) - A Tennessee man has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for being legally drunk and speeding in a vehicle crash that killed an off-duty police officer. The Shelby County district attorney's office says Marquell Griffin was sentenced…
COMMERCE, Ga. (AP) — In Donald…
ROSSVILLE, Georgia (WDEF) - Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, has signed a bill that will deliver additional income tax refunds due to the state's budget surplus. It will go to those who filed taxes…
WDEF - Tennessee's state veterinarian says restrictions have been lifted for avian influenza in a county bordering where Kentucky saw a recent outbreak at a commercial chicken facility. In a news release, state veterinarian Dr. Samantha Beaty says avian influenza…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - The White House has removed Dr. Mahomet Oz - best known as daytime TV’s host of “The Dr. Oz Show” - and former football star Herschel Walker from the President’s Council on Sports, Nutrition and Fitness…
ATLANTA (AP) - A group of Georgia voters is challenging U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s eligibility to run for reelection, saying she helped facilitate the riot that disrupted Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. The challenge filed Thursday…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - While Tennessee lawmakers are been luke-warm at best to the idea of suspending the state gas tax, they have an alternative. On Thursday, Governor Bill Lee proposed a food tax suspension instead. Tennessee would lift both…
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has proposed a 30-day suspension of state and local grocery sales tax.
GALLATIN, Tennessee (WDEF) - A Middle Tennessee paramedic faces accusations of replacing medications in his ambulance with salt water. Travis Stenberg worked for the Sumner County Emergency Medical Services in Gallatin. Prosecutors say he got into locked narcotics boxes and…
ATLANTA, Georgia (WDEF) - Georgia is sending out tax refunds this year, thanks to a budget surplus. Gov. Brian Kemp signed the $1.1 billion refund plan into law on Wednesday. He says the state is giving back the money because…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee education officials have announced $50 million in grants to expand a tutoring program. (more…)
CLIFTON, Tennessee (WDEF) - A suspect faces multiple indictments for the incident that led to the death of a Sheriff's deputy in West Tennessee last fall. Hardin County Deputy Matthew Locke was responding to a domestic disturbance call in Clifton…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are nearing final passage of legislation allowing students and staffers to sue public colleges and universities if they feel they’ve been unfairly punished for not accepting “divisive…
TELLICO PLAINS, Tennessee (WDEF) - The TBI will investigate the fatal shooting of a female suspect in Tellico Plains Monday night by Monroe County deputies. Their preliminary report says that the deputies came to a house on Dunn Road around…
CLANTON, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who called a wrecker service asking to have a 70-ton crane pulled out of the woods is now charged with stealing the heavy machinery, sheriff's officials said. The owner of a towing service…
NEW YORK (AP) — With some support from her friend Reese Witherspoon, Dolly Parton is looking to be a movie star again. Parton is teaming with Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine media company for an adaptation of the best-selling novel she co-wrote…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Crews are searching for a Kentucky miner who was working alone when a roof collapsed deep underground. A statement from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet says 33-year-old James D. Brown of Lynch began his shift…
FAIRFIELD GLADE, Tennessee (WDEF) - We're still waiting on official details on just what happened in Cumberland County where three people were shot. There were two incidents in the Fairfield Glade residential community, north of Crossville. The first was a…