Rosana Hughes

Bradley County Criminal Court Judge Andrew Mark Freiberg has recused himself from a case in which Tenth Judicial District Attorney General Steve Crump is being accused by a convicted murderer of having been blackmailed into securing her conviction at a 2018 trial.

Faith Smith sat on the covered porch of her Harrison, Tennessee, home Tuesday, surrounded by photos her husband took of the rubble left at Ground Zero after the 9/11 terror attacks and memorabilia from the Fire Department of the City of New York.

Former Chattanooga police officer Benjamin Dessalines, arrested in 2018 for sexual battery, pleaded no contest to a lesser charge shortly after he and the city settled a civil lawsuit filed last year by his accuser.

The founder of Signal Mountain Farm, arrested last month for allegedly kicking a woman's door in and threatening her, has been arrested a second time after reportedly sending harassing text messages to a second woman.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into allegations of retaliation by local George Floyd protest leader Marie Mott after she shared a social media post featuring a Hamilton County General Sessions judge's grandson and called on the judge to recuse himself from the cases.

Tenth Judicial District Attorney General Steve Crump is denying allegations of an affair or that he was blackmailed into securing a conviction in a 2018 second-degree murder trial.

A Hamilton County General Sessions judge during a scheduling hearing Tuesday declined to entertain the prospect of dismissing charges against a group of local George Floyd death protesters before he's had a chance to hear the evidence against them.

The cold case unit of the Hamilton County District Attorney's Office is hoping to generate leads in a possible homicide case after receiving a credible tip that a woman was killed about a decade ago.

Newly released disciplinary records show there was a roughly 53-minute window during which a former Chattanooga police officer — now convicted of civil rights charges stemming from multiple rapes — and his last victim were unaccounted for.

The initial reason for which Hamilton County sheriff's deputies tried to stop a man who subsequently fled from them on Saturday was a misdemeanor offense, according to Hamilton County court records, something that may violate the sheriff's office own pursuit policy.

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office deputy at the center of a weekend pursuit that led to a police shooting has been involved in two other shootings, one of which was fatal, in the last three months.

Fires were set in the doorways of a Hixson duplex as a burglary suspect fled from Chattanooga police earlier this month, causing one officer to slip and fall into what appeared to be accelerant fluid, leading that officer to catch on fire, Hamilton County court records show.

You may have seen the "Save the Children" homemade signs on highway overpasses and around some Chattanooga neighborhoods in recent weeks. But what is it about?

A 19-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after his father called Chattanooga police upon watching home security footage he said showed the teen strangling his mother to death.

The founder of Signal Mountain Farm was arrested Sunday after allegedly kicking a woman's door in and threatening to cause her harm.

Desmond Ladon Logan, the former Chattanooga police officer who admitted to raping three women in his custody and using a Taser on a fourth woman, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, the maximum amount possible under his plea agreement.

The 10th Judicial District Attorney's Office has asked for more time to respond to a motion seeking to disqualify the office from any involvement in a woman's fight for a new trial after the district's chief prosecutor was accused of wrongdoing.

The attorneys for a woman convicted of second-degree murder are asking a judge to disqualify 10th Judicial District Attorney General Steve Crump's entire office from the case after the chief prosecutor was accused of withholding evidence in order to hide an alleged affair for which he was purportedly being blackmailed into securing a conviction.

A Chattanooga man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for holding a woman hostage in 2017 for at least two days and torturing her repeatedly.

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to hand down a sentence of at least 17 years in prison for Desmond Ladon Logan, the former Chattanooga police officer who admitted to raping three women in his custody and using a Taser on a fourth woman.