MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama lawmakers have approved the largest teacher pay raise in a generation. The Alabama House of Representatives on Wednesday gave final approval to the education trust fund budget that increases the minimum starting salaries for K-12…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - Great Smoky Mountains National Park wants to start charging parking fees and increase rates for campsites, day-use cabin rentals and picnic pavilions. The park says the changes, which include a $5 daily parking fee, would be…
NASHVILLE (WDEF) - Names.org has been crunching names and numbers at the Social Security Administration and have come up with the most popular baby names in Tennessee for 2022. Liam is the top boys name for the state. Wyatt…
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia lawmakers are handing the decision of whether transgender athletes should be allowed to play high school sports to the state’s main athletic association. The last-minute move came minutes before the 2022 session ended. House Bill 1084…
MANCHESTER, Tennessee (WDEF) - Dot Foods will build a new distribution center in Manchester that promises to create 171 new jobs along the I-24 corridor. Dot Foods is North America’s largest food industry redistributor, operating in all 50 states.…
ATLANTA, Georgia (WDEF) - On the last day of this year's session at the Georgia legislature, lawmakers gathered at the capital to watch the governor sign a major mental health overhaul into law. The package was pushed by Speaker…
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia lawmakers are sending a bill to increase parental oversight of schools to Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature. Also Friday, a bill regulating what schools can teach on racial issues neared final passage. That measure bans…
ATLANTA, Georgia (WDEF) - Georgia will become the 25th state to approve Constitutional Carry, or not requiring a permit to carry concealed weapons. Tennessee already dropped the permit requirement and Alabama just passed one this session. As the Georgia legislature…
TENNESSEE (WDEF) - As turkey hunting season ramps up across Tennessee, wildlife officials do have one warning for "hunters." You can't shoot turkeys wandering in someone else's yard. TWRA is posting a video of a turkey poaching case…
HUNTSVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - The TBI says two men have now been arrested in the death of a woman last fall. 37 year old Crystal Chambers was shot at a home in Scott County, Tennessee. After a joint investigation by…
A line of severe storms packing isolated tornadoes and high winds ripped across the Deep South overnight, toppling trees and power lines and leaving homes and businesses damaged…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Country music star Garth Brooks is adding another show to his Nashville stop on his stadium tour. It'll be Friday night, April 15, in addition to his rescheduled show…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee would ban transgender athletes from participating in female college sports under legislation gaining traction inside the state’s GOP-controlled General Assembly. The proposal cleared key legislative hearings Wednesday in both the…
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A wildfire in East Tennessee has authorities mandating evacuations in the area. The Sevier County Emergency Management Agency says the evacuation is the Hatcher Mountain area of Wears Valley and the resorts of Shagbark and Little…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has released a report on officer-involved fatalities in the state during 2021. They say officers in Tennessee used deadly force 31 times last year. 11 of the cases happened in a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The…
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…