Rosana Hughes

A CARTA bus caught fire Friday afternoon in downtown Chattanooga.

Hoy jueves hay un nuevo caso confirmado de coronavirus en el Condado de Hamilton. Las muertes subieron a 11 localmente.

With the COVID-19 pandemic closing schools and most child care centers, there are fewer eyes on children — fewer eyes to spot suspected abuse and fewer eyes to report it.

Two men in Cleveland, Tennessee, have been charged Tuesday with violating Gov. Bill Lee's stay-at-home executive order after being caught behind a Target loading two stolen motorcycles onto a trailer hauled by a stolen truck.

The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday denied an appeal by 44-year-old Benjamin Brewer, who was convicted in March 2018 of multiple counts of vehicular homicide in the 2015 crash on Interstate 75 that killed six and injured several others.

The attorney for one of the co-defendants of criminally indicted former Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Deputy Daniel Wilkey admitted last week that his client took a cellphone video of a baptism "in lieu of arrest" of a woman after a traffic stop.

With stay-at-home orders issued in Tennessee, unemployment skyrocketing and financial stress mounting, domestic violence victims may find themselves stuck with their abusers in increasingly tense situations amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

A federal judge ordered Hamilton County on Tuesday to file weekly status reports on whether videos involving criminally indicted former sheriff's deputy Daniel Wilkey were lost in January's "catastrophic data loss" affecting the sheriff's office dashboard camera server.

As more people stay home to avoid spreading or catching the coronavirus, police say they expect to see changes to crime rates. However, with less than a month of data to analyze since governments began to urge people to stay home, police say it's still too soon to tell what kind of trends may emerge.

As local first responders and law enforcement agencies adjust to the growing coronavirus pandemic, some are more transparent than others about workers affected by self-quarantine or isolation.

More than three dozen groups and individuals, including Metro Nashville's former public defender, have filed an emergency petition urging Tennessee Supreme Court justices to reduce COVID-19 health risks in state prisons, local jails and juvenile detention centers by releasing prisoners they say represent low risks.

State and federal authorities are urging the public to be vigilant and report any suspected scammers looking to take advantage of fear and uncertainty amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

More than three dozen groups and individuals, including Metro Nashville's former public defender, have filed an emergency petition urging Tennessee Supreme Court justices to reduce COVID-19 health risks in state prisons, local jails and juvenile detention centers by releasing prisoners they say represent low risks.

With large gatherings banned, businesses closing and people losing income, animal shelters are taking a hard hit amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

A Collegedale police officer's department-issued AR-15 was fired inside the City Hall building last week.

A kitchen fire sent a woman and her four young children to the hospital to be treated for possible smoke inhalation Monday afternoon, according to the Chattanooga Fire Department.

As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rises across the country, local courts and some law enforcement agencies are taking precautions to prevent further spread within jails, and jail officials insist they have the ability to contain an outbreak.

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office confirmed Saturday morning that an East Ridge Police arrestee exhibited COVID-19 symptoms.

After some local attorneys sounded the alarm over Silverdale Detention Center's lack of precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office says it has addressed the concerns and is working to make remote attorney-client communication available.

As local attorneys raise concerns about the Silverdale Detention Center's lack of precautions during the COVID-19 outbreak, the jail's warden David Sexton was removed recently without explanation from CoreCivic, the private prison operator that has managed the detention center since 1984.