Pelham, Tennessee (WDEF) – EDM artist Kayzo is a big fan of Halloween. So when he came to The Cavern to perform last Friday, he gave the Grundy County venue a challenge. He asked them how many jack-o-lanterns they could set up inside the underground music venue. The answer was more than 450! Management got the pumpkins from Rock Bottom…
SPRING CITY, Tennessee (WDEF) – The emergency came to them this morning for a local fire station. A driver crashed into the Wolf Creek Fire station in Rhea County. The pickup apparently lost control on Watts Bar Highway, went through a parking area and into the wall of the fire station. It knocked a whole in the wall, and flying…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – Chattanooga Police are investigating a shooting Tuesday evening at the Chickamauga Dam. Just before 8:30, they got a call about a person shot on Highway 153. They tell us a male victim has suffered life-threatening injuries. Police have blocked off northbound traffic over the dam. They are diverting it onto Amnicola Highway. We’ll have more details as…
SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tennessee (WDEF) – Tennessee officials announce that Lodge Manufacturing is expanding in South Pittsburg. The $56 million expansion should create 239 more jobs. Lodge has been making cast iron cookware in South Pittsburg for 126 years, making them the oldest such manufacturer in the country. But demand for their products is growing so their production line will grow…
EAST RIDGE, Tennessee (WDEF) – A nonprofit health care provide will offer free medical services in a pop-up clinic this weekend in East Ridge. Remote Area Medical (RAM) offers dental, vision and medical care to underserved and uninsured people for free during the clinic. They will be at Camp Jordan (323 Camp Jordan Pkwy) on Saturday and Sunday, first come,…
The NFL has found no other current team or league personnel to have sent emails containing racist, homophobic or misogynistic language similar to messages written by Jon Gruden that led to his resignation as Las Vegas Raiders coach, according to a person familiar with the documents. The person familiar with the investigation as well as emails told The Associated Press…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon, this week – smashing storefront windows, lighting dumpsters on fire and causing at least $500,000 in damage – but police officers didn’t stop them. Portland Police Bureau officials say that’s because of legislation passed by Oregon lawmakers this year, which restricts the tools they can…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Al Wolf is used to clearing one or two snakes from under houses but recently was called by a woman who said she had seen rattlesnakes scurry under her Northern California house and was surprised to find more than 90 rattlesnakes getting ready to hibernate. Wolf, director of Sonoma County Reptile Rescue, said he crawled under…
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday he would prefer to cut the duration of programs in his big social services and climate change package rather than eliminate some entirely, as Democrats struggle to win support from moderates by trimming what had been a $3.5 trillion proposal. Biden’s comments, reassuring progressives on what he hopes will be a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Defense Department said Friday that it is committed to offering condolence payments to relatives of the 10 people who were killed in an errant U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in a statement that the Defense Department was also working with the State Department to help surviving family…
DUNLAP, Tennessee (WDEF) – Animal control officers have taken 21 dogs from a property in Dunlap. Since Sequatchie County does not have any animal services, the Humane Educational Society in Chattanooga, Rhea County Animal Control, Perry’s Promise and Marion Animal Resource Connection have all helped take the animals in. HES officials say the dogs appear to be chihuahua and spaniel…
A dog trapped for five days deep inside a narrow, rocky crevice at a state park north of New York City was rescued unharmed — though it was hungry and thirsty.
utsports.com utsports.com (utsports.com) Tennessee will don its Nike “Dark Mode” black alternate uniforms when the Volunteers host South Carolina for their SEC home opener at noon ET Saturday on ESPN2. It’s the first time since Halloween 2009 vs. South Carolina that Tennessee will wear black jerseys. That year, Tennessee wore orange pants. On Saturday, the Vols will don black pants…
Abortion, guns and religion top the Supreme Court term that begins Monday. A look at those and a few other notable cases: ABORTION Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health (19-1392) is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court’s major decisions over the last half-century that guarantee a woman’s right to an abortion nationwide. Lower…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Britney Spears’ fight to end the conservatorship that controlled vast aspects of her life is putting the spotlight on ongoing efforts throughout the U.S. to reform state laws that advocates say too often harm the very people they were meant to protect. Already this year, New Jersey cracked down on the circle of people who could…
MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say they have found the body of a missing Florida college student who disappeared a week ago. A maintenance worker who entered her apartment unauthorized the day she disappeared and later killed himself is the prime suspect. Orange County Sheriff John Mina said Saturday that authorities found Miya Marcano’s body in a wooded area near an…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday acknowledged frustrations as Democrats strain to rescue a scaled-back version of his $3.5 trillion government-overhaul plan and salvage a related public works bill after frantic negotiations failed to produce a deal. “Everybody is frustrated. That’s part of being in government,” Biden told reporters before leaving the White House for a weekend stay at his home in…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — People who are healing and some still struggling gathered Friday to remember those who died and were injured during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history four years ago on the Las Vegas Strip. “I was wounded. Those physical wounds have healed,” said Dee Ann Hyatt, whose daughter also was hurt and whose brother died…
JOPLIN, Mont. (AP) — Multiple people were injured after an Amtrak train that runs between Seattle and Chicago derailed Saturday afternoon in north-central Montana, the train agency said. Five cars of the Empire Builder train, which runs from Seattle to Chicago, derailed at 4 p.m. near Joplin, a town of about 200, Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams said in a statement….
LONDON (AP) — In a U-turn, Britain said Saturday it will issue thousands of emergency visas to foreign truck drivers to help fix supply-chain problems that have caused empty supermarket shelves, long lines at gas stations and shuttered pumps. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government had resisted easing immigration rules, despite warnings from businesses that the driver shortage could lead…
NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Amodio’s historic run on “Jeopardy!” has now netted him more than $1 million in non-tournament play, making him the third person in the show’s history to pass that mark. The only other contestants to win more than $1 million in regular season games are Ken Jennings, whose 74-game streak netted $2,520,700, and James Holzhauer, who…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A banking error has caused dozens of Florida teachers to see their state-issued $1,000 bonus checks bounce, officials said Friday. Disaster relief payments issued to about 50 of the 176,000 educators who received checks were affected by the JPMorgan Chase error, according to a statement from the Florida Department of Education. Officials said they’re working to…
New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge just days before it was to take effect. Workers in the nation’s largest school system were to be required to show vaccination proof starting Monday. But late Friday, a judge for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – “I’m exactly two miles from three different food cities. So I’m equal distance to all of them but that’s my closest food source.” Jazmine LeBlac lives along Rossville Boulevard – which has now come to be known as a food desert. But through her work with Crabtree Farms, she’s hoping to come up with solutions. “The…