A man already sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to fatally shooting four people at a massage business outside Atlanta pleaded not guilty to shooting four others on the same day at two spas inside the city.
By TOM KRISHER and BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press GLENDALE, Ky. (AP) - Ford and a partner company say they plan to build three major electric-vehicle battery factories and an auto assembly plant by 2025. It's a dramatic investment in the…
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he will use federal COVID-19 aid to pay $1,000 bonuses to every police officer, sheriff’s deputy, firefighter and emergency medical technician statewide. Other workers…
ATLANTA (AP) — The rewards of an early Donald Trump endorsement will be on display Saturday in Georgia when a three-man ticket of candidates he's backing in 2022 Republican primaries will be featured at one of his signature rallies. But…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge has handed down a second blow to Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s contentious order allowing parents to opt out of school mask requirements. U.S. District Judge J. Ronnie Greer on Friday ruled that Knox…
A gunman who killed one person and wounded 14 others in a Tennessee grocery store did not appear to target anyone specifically as he rampaged through the building on a sunny Thursday afternoon.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has issued the call for a special session focused on prison construction as a solution to the state’s longstanding problems in corrections. Ivey on Thursday called for lawmakers to return to Montgomery…
COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A shooting at a Tennessee grocery store left one person dead and 12 others injured Thursday afternoon, and the shooter was subsequently found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at the store in an upscale…
A shooting at a Tennessee grocery store left one person dead and 12 others injured Thursday afternoon.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - Gov. Lee and the state Department of Education shared data with Tennessee lawmakers on results from their investment last year in education. Lawmakers spent $160 million in academic summer camps to address learning loss by students…
ATLANTA (AP) - State inspectors and an investigation by media outlets have found that a Georgia agency unlawfully held onto millions of dollars in seized funds, spending money on Fitbits, exercise equipment and other items. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that…
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia election investigators found that U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s wife did not commit any residency violation by voting in Georgia in the 2020 general election after requesting an absentee ballot be sent to Texas. The secretary…
The work of the task force, set into motion in June by a vote of Southern Baptists at a national gathering, could be a foundational part of how the SBC addresses the issue in the future.
A disaster relief organization founded by actor Sean Penn is boosting Georgia's drive to inoculate people against the coronavirus, though some of its pop-up vaccine clinics have struggled to attract people.
Two FIFA inspectors were in Atlanta Friday to get a look at 72,000-seat Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of a record-setting Major League Soccer team and centerpiece of the city's bid.
BRYANT, Alabama (WDEF) - Authorities are looking for a missing teenage girl from Bryant, Alabama. Kiarra Durham disappeared from her home overnight on Tuesday. Her family believes she could be anywhere from Trenton to Fort Payne to Scottsboro or in…
UPDATE: Michael Dale challenges the police version of the confrontation. His partner claims the SRO has a personal grudge against them. She says Dale was carrying a "tool" not a weapon. Here is the video they posted of the incident.…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Valley Authority is giving up its construction permit for an unfinished nuclear plant in northeast Alabama nearly 50 years after work began on the facility. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that the TVA…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III is the latest Republican to take on President Biden's Covid vaccination plan. He is one of 24 Republican state attorneys general to sign a letter raising concerns over the…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - A jury has been selected for the Janet Hinds trial. It's set to start here in Hamilton County, Monday. The jurors will be brought in from Davidson County, and…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - Officials at a Tennessee university say they will once again seek permission to strip the name of a Confederate general from one of its buildings. News outlets report that Middle Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees…
FLAT ROCK, Alabama (WDEF) - A Sheriff's K-9 sniffed out a suspect on Sand Mountain on Monday. DeKalb County deputies went to a home in Flat Rock on some outstanding warrants. While they were talking to Audrey Denis Welden, Carlton…
FLORENCE, Alabama (WDEF) - The Chattanooga Mocs football team traveled to Florence last Saturday to face the North Alabama Lions. U-T-C had to tread lightly on enemy turf because U-N-A features a live…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - The Volunteer State is breaking national records, and not in a good way. "Hospitalizations and ICU admits currently are at their highest level ever," says Dr. Jay Sizemore,…