CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – It’s official. Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant is now rolling off the all-electric ID.4 compact SUV. The ID.4 is already Volkswagen’s most popular electric vehicle, but they have all been made in Germany. Until now. In a release, the company said today they hope to increase production to 7,000 a month here in Chattanooga later this year. A lower…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) — The U.S. Coast Guard is conducting a week long-scale drill this week on the Tennessee River The maritime drill involves joint training with local law enforcement and fire rescue personnel. Lindsey Rogers of the Chattanooga Fire Department says operations, so far, have been successful. “What it simulated was a passenger vessel, almost like a riverboat, that started…
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tennessee (WDEF) – The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office is warning drivers about some wide loads on the roads this weekend. They will be escorting three large industrial pieces of equipment to the Gestamp plant on Hickory Valley Road. They will be coming from Riverfront Parkway. The route has to be approved to make sure the roads can handle…
HARRISON, Tennessee (WDEF) – A home in Harrison was destroyed by fire overnight. It was called in by an off-duty firefighter who saw the flames at 9149 Ooltewah Georgetown Road. The first firefighters on the scene found that everyone had gotten out of the house. No one was hurt. The house is a total loss. The cause of the fire…
ELBERTON, Georgia (WDEF) – It may be a simple case of vandalism to the GBI, but some say it was a righteous act. Investigators are trying to determine who blew up a part of the Georgia Guidestones near Elberton, Georgia (East of Atlanta). The Guidestones have been called America’s Stonehenge, but some just say they were satanic. The Genesis of…
SPRING CITY, Tennessee (WDEF) – TVA has one of its biggest tools back in the game to cope with summer heat demands. Unit 2 at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is back online after a scheduled refueling. The project also replaced four steam generators. The team loaded 88 new fuel assemblies in the process. Unit Two has been down for…
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tennessee (WDEF) – The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office has shut down a road along the Tennessee River because of a crash. A semi-truck has overturned in the 1700 block of Cash Canyon Road on gone over the railing. No one was hurt in the wreck. But residents along the road on the western bank of the river are…
UPDATE: Samuel Quinton Edwards was shot and killed tonight by police in Kentucky. State Police tracked him outside of Louisville and gave chase. They report he died in a shootout with police. ________________ HENDERSONVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) – A search has ended in Millersville, Tennessee for a suspect wanted in a Blue Alert. Samuel Q. Edwards is wanted for the shooting…
SODDY-DAISY, Tennessee (WDEF) – The Chickamauga Lake Cleanup Weekend landed 6,526 pounds of trash. It is a two part cleanup series hosted by Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful and presented by iSustain. A total of 17 volunteers hit the lake at Soddy-Daisy Friday night and Saturday. They pulled out: • 142 bags of trash • 13 tires • 3 steel…
Chattanooga, TN (WDEF) – Investigators are searching for a person of interest in connection to the fire at Highland Park Baptist Church on June 10. The fire was intentionally set according to investigators. Photos from the scene show a man on a bicycle in the area around the time of the fire. Investigators seek the public’s help in identifying the…
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 searching for her a year later.” The TBI updated the search for the missing 5 year old (last year) saying the…
(photos show narrow lanes and backed up tankers) CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – The heat is certainly affecting firefighting today. Chattanooga firefighters battled a blaze at a Lookout Valley home Monday morning. It happened before 11 AM on Cash Canyon Road. And it wasn’t easy to fight. The nearest hydrant was half a mile away so crews had the shuttle water for…
11:25 UPDATE: Fire Dept. extends “shelter in place” to 5 blocks around church ______________ 11 PM UPDATE: from Chatt. Fire Dept. “Residents living within these blocks: 3rd Street to Highland Park Avenue, 3rd Street in between Glenwood Parkway and Highland Park Ave, extending South to East Main Street at Highland Park Ave and up to Dodds Avenue are asked to…
JACKSON, Tennessee (WDEF) – Tennessee state troopers say they confiscated 44 pounds of cocaine and fentanyl in one traffic stop on Monday. But they had to work for it. A trooper pulled over a flatbed truck pulling a trailer on I-40 near Jackson in west Tennessee. The driver told him that he and a partner had been hired to drive…
FALL CREEK FALLS, Tennessee (WDEF) – Dunlap Fire Department members helped with the rescue of a juvenile who jumped from the top of a waterfall. It happened at Fall Creek Falls State Park. Officials say the juvenile jumped (or dove) from the top of Caney Creek Falls into a swimming hole 85 feet below. The juvenile suffered severe injuries, but…
EAST RIDGE, Tennessee (WDEF) – East Ridge Police are asking the public to help identify a suspect for shoplifting at the Bass Pro Shop. They say the man took rod and reel combos and hid them in his jacket. They say the suspect then left without paying. The ten fishing rods were valued at $1,219. If you can identify the…
(TENNESSEE) – Southern brides have their own style according to a new survey by PlannedAtHeart.com. The wedding planner site compared each state’s searches for wedding dresses online. Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina all had different tastes. COURTESY OF SACHIN AND BABI The most popular style across the country is a One Shoulder dress. Fire states searched for it the…
CHATSWORTH, Georgia (WDEF) – Investigators in northwest Georgia are rounding up suspects in a lot of burglaries on both sides of the state line. A lot of cases: Murray County: 34 Gordon County: 73 Gilmer County: 23 Polk County, TN: 60 Plus various breakins on US forestry and State of Georgia lands Murray County Sheriff Jimmy Davenport has posted photos…
PIKEVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) – Erlanger Blesdoe Hospital opened a new medical office building on Tuesday. it includes 14 exam rooms, 2 procedure areas, a lab, nurse station and physician offices, plus a much larger waiting room. It is right next to the hospital entrance on Wheelertown Ave. The new building was designed to fit into the residential area instead of…
EVANSVILLE, Indiana (WDEF) – The Sheriff of Vanderburgh County in Indiana is sharing more details on the end of the 10 day manhunt for Casey White and Vicky White. He says as officers were chasing them down, they were prepared for a high-powered shootout. The sheriff shared photos of some of the weapons they were carrying, including an AR-15 rifle….
UPDATE: Dalton Police say they have now identified the suspect. ________ DALTON, Georgia (WDEF) – Dalton Police are looking for a woman accused of shoplifting $3000 worth of cologne and perfume at a store. They say the thefts actually happened over two days. Police are trying to identify a female suspect and a young man with her who were recorded…
WALDEN’S RIDGE, Tennessee (WDEF) – Hamilton County reports that Roberts Mill Road is back open after more than two months of work to repair slide damage. The road is one of the few that goes up Walden’s Ridge. The slide opened up a large crack in the road in the last week of February and forced officials to close it….
JASPER, Tennessee (WDEF) – Sheriff Bo Burnett says a major drug figure has been indicted in Marion County. He says Michael Shane Dyer of Sequatchie, Tennessee already has six felony convictions in Marion, Grundy and Sequatchie Counties. He was nabbed in a five month long investigation involving undercover drug buys. Sheriff Burnett says “This joint investigation between the Sheriff’s Department…
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tennessee (WDEF) – The Roberts Mill Road project is just about done. Work crews have completed firming up the roadbed and are ready to start paving on Wednesday. The road up Walden’s Ridge was shutdown in the winter after a slide opened up major cracks in the road. They have had to dig out the area, stabilize the…