Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck began a seven-year prison sentence Thursday, convicted earlier this year on 37 counts involving a scheme to steal more than $2.5 million from a state-chartered insurer of last resort Beck reported to a federal…
JEMISON, Ala. (AP) - Police say nearly two dozen FedEx packages have been found in woods along a rural Alabama road about 75 miles from a ravine where hundreds of undelivered FedEx parcels previously were discovered. Police in Jemison said…
Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat and leading voting rights activist, said Wednesday that she will launch another campaign to become the nation's first Black woman governor. (more…)
ROME, Georgia (WDEF) - A Georgia inmate has been sentenced for running a multi-million dollar fraud scheme while behind bars in a state prison. Damon Thomas Young was servicing a 20 year sentence at the Hays State Prison in Trion…
NASHVILLE (WDEF) - Officials confirmed the first confirmed case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in the United States on Wednesday. A California native returning from South Africa has tested positive for it. The person was vaccinated. The victim has had…
NASHVILLE (WDEF) - The gospel of Nashville Hot Chicken is headed to the Florida coast. Party Fowl is opening their first location outside of Tennessee in Destin. Party Fowl opened in Nashville in 2014, featuring hot chicken and boozy slushes.…
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - Democrat Stacey Abrams says she is making another run for governor of Georgia. Her announcement Wednesday could set up a rematch against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp four years after her narrow defeat…
Olympic gymnast Simone Biles appears at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York on Sept. 12, 2021, left, actor Sandra Oh appears at the season two premiere of "Killing Eve" in Los Angeles on April…
City Council member Andre Dickens won a runoff election Tuesday to become Atlanta’s next mayor, riding a surge of support that powered him past the council’s current president, Felicia Moore,…
HAYDEN, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say they have questioned a FedEx driver after hundreds of packages were recently found in a wooded area north of Birmingham, Alabama. Blount County Sheriff Mark…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Chattanooga-based Erlanger Health System is once again suing Tennessee’s Medicaid program, known as TennCare. In a new lawsuit, the company argues that the state continues to underpay some hospitals that treat the neediest patients. The complaint…
FORT PAYNE, Alabama (WDEF) - The sheriff in DeKalb County, Alabama says a traffic stop on I 59 on Monday ended with the arrest of two suspects for gun smuggling. A county interdiction agent stopped the vehicle on the interstate…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate whose lethal injection was halted because medical staff couldn’t find a suitable vein for the execution has died of natural causes almost four years later, his lawyer said Monday. Doyle Lee Hamm, who…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police say a passenger on a Spirit Airlines flight allegedly punched a flight attendant and pulled another attendant’s hair before being subdued. Spirit Airlines spokeswoman Nicole Aguiar says Nashville International Airport police removed the passenger for…
NASHVILLE (WDEF) - The Tennessee Promise comes with mentors to help students keep up the work in college. But the state scholarship program still needs 2,100 more volunteers to fulfill that promise in the next 4 days. The mentors are…
The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Correction’s Division Re-Entry Program will host a job fair Tuesday morning at the Silverdale Detention Center.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police say a passenger on a Spirit Airlines flight allegedly punched a flight attendant and pulled another attendant’s hair before being subdued. Spirit Airlines spokeswoman Nicole Aguiar says Nashville International Airport police removed the passenger for…
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia officials struggling to distribute federal funds to prevent evictions have outlined plans to increase the speed at which they get the money to landlords and renters. The improvement plans were submitted last week to the U.S.…
All three men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The annual Christmas celebration at the Tennessee Capitol will take place next Monday and tours of the governor’s mansion begin Dec. 10. An announcement from Gov. Bill Lee and first lady Maria Lee says the free…
The Chattanooga Fire Department responded to a kitchen fire Tuesday night in the 1100 block of S Greenwood Ave.
As Covid restrictions continue to lift and consumer confidence builds, AAA says travel is seeing a 13% increase when compared to last year at this time.
With the holiday season now here, many of us will be in the kitchen, cooking up a "feast" for the family.
A historically Black medical college in Tennessee is giving students an early Thanksgiving gift - $10,000 in cash.