CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – The Social Justice movement and Covid-19 have had major impacts on the UTC campus this year. So it is only natural that the topics dominated Chancellor Angle’s State of UTC address today. On the pandemic, he cited a few surprising numbers. Enrollment is up this fall. And they kept more students from the first year to second…
“Chattanooga’s first physically distanced live show of this size since spring.”
OOLTEWAH, Tenn (WDEF) – An Ooltewah mom is determined to save Halloween with a trick or treat home project. With coronavirus still spreading all across the country, this holiday could become hard to celebrate this year. Halloween enthusiast and mother , Nikki Swager has created a 6 foot socially distant candy luge. Swagger says she wanted to find a creative…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (UTC Athletics) — The Chattanooga Mocs volleyball program jumped out to a two-set lead before fighting off a furious Georgia State comeback effort including five match points to capture a 3-2 (25-23, 25-18, 20-25, 22-25, 24-22) victory inside Maclellan Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon. Chattanooga begins, and finishes, the 2020 fall season with a 1-0 record. Georgia State drops…
Mayor Jim Coppinger has extended Hamilton County’s mask mandate to October 8.
Harrison Ford: “He got it because he’s the best person for it, he’s the right person for it.”
“we’ve had over 32 thousand people looking at these shows.”
She is the daughter from President Trump’s second marriage to Dalton native Marla Maples.
MCMINN COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) – The State of Tennessee commemorated the ratification of the 19th amendment through a reenactment of the historic vote on its 100th anniversary at the state capitol Tuesday. “It’s really a remembrance and a recognition of the process of how we progress in our values in our nation through national consensus,” Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said….
Watch Marty Stuart’s reaction to his induction.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – A 5 minute video takes The Howard School students and parents on a walk-through of how students will return. It follows a student from the start of his day to the end all while he’s adhering to expectations in this new normal. “He comes to school he follows the arrows he’s always on the right-hand side…
Video messages from (most) of the other Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, including Roy Dale Cope of Chattanooga
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – The public performance shutdown during the Covid-19 pandemic has taken a toll on Chattanooga area concert venues. Tivoli Theatre Foundation officials say the cancelled concerts at the Tivoli, Memorial Auditorium and Walker Theatre is threatening their future. So far, the Foundation has lost $4 million in revenue from lost shows. So they have launched the Tivoli Theatre…
10 year old Cash Daniels wins another award for his work cleaning plastic out of local rivers.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- The 19th Annual minority health fair was held today. But, because of the Coronavirus, things looked a bit different. The fair was live on the ‘Minority Health Fair” Facebook page. Posted by Minority Health Fair on Saturday, August 1, 2020 The event this year featured speakers instead of vendors. However, some vendors will still be offering there…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – The Chattanooga Police Department has released video from the Rustic Village North apartment fire at the beginning of the month. Both firefighters and police rescued five people (and a dog) from balconies. One person died from the fire (not in the video). Neighbors actually helped the man from the ground floor, but he died later in the…
They will breed this mini-antelope that is endangered in the wild.
“There are going to be positive cases in schools… that is something that is going to happen.”
“Everyone fell in love with Union, how could you not?”
ROME, Georgia (WDEF) – Investigators have charged three men with the murder of two women in northwest Georgia. Back in May, the bodies of half-sisters, Vanita Richardson and Truvenia Campbell were found under the Etowah River Bridge in Rome. The GBI announced on Thursday murder charges against 28 year old Desmond Lavonta Brown, 36 year old Devin Lashawn Watts and…
The Hamilton County Health Department released new guidelines that reduced the recommended isolation period following a positive COVID-19 test.
Listen to 108 students from across the country play a memorial piece to the Fallen Five on the anniversary.
Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger announced a county-wide mask mandate that goes into effect July 10.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Grammy-winning country group The Dixie Chicks have dropped the word Dixie from their name, now going by The Chicks. The group made of Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines and Emily Strayer posted a statement on their website saying they wanted to meet “this moment.” The group also acknowledged that there was an existing band in New Zealand…