Rosana Hughes

The chairman of the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Civil Service Board and member of the county's Health and Safety Board resigned after sexually explicit comments he allegedly made about Vice President-elect Kamala Harris circulated on social media Wednesday.

A 24-year-old man is in custody after shooting a man who was running away from him last month, police say. The man later died from his injuries.

Two people accused of trying to dispose of a 22-year-old man's body in Prentice Cooper State Park earlier this year have now been indicted in connection with the slaying.

A local attorney is asking a judge to reconsider a client's one-year jail sentence, citing "cruel and unusual punishment," after his client contracted COVID-19 in the Hamilton County Jail and has not received daily medication for a pre-existing condition that, if left untreated, could become deadly, according to court documents.

Chattanooga has seen multiple shootings that have left at least three people dead, including two at the same address, over the course of two days.

A man is in custody after leading Hamilton County deputies on a looping, high-speed chase through Soddy-Daisy neighborhoods on Friday morning.

As Chattanooga's Police Advisory and Review Committee began hearing its first cases of alleged police misconduct, a group of local activist organizations began its effort to put legislation for a different review board on the ballot in the March 2021 election.

With a third wave of COVID-19 cases surging, the Tennessee Supreme Court has issued an order extending its state of emergency and reiterated its mask mandate, something that Hamilton County court officials say is being followed closely.

A Bradley County, Tennessee, constable was indicted this month for official corruption and another is getting praise on social media for posting what he says is a joke about not snitching on large Thanksgiving family gatherings, something that government and health officials have strongly discouraged amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Signal Mountain firefighter resigned last month after being mistaken for a burglary suspect while dressed as a woman and performing a sex act on another man inside the Shackleford Ridge Road fire station.

Four years after the tragic Woodmore school bus crash that left six children dead and dozens more injured, some of the victims' families' legal battles are just coming to a close, while others are still being fought.

A woman convicted of shooting and killing her boyfriend at a Hixson gas station in 2017 was sentenced on Tuesday to 21 years in prison.

A Bradley County sheriff's deputy was arrested by Cleveland, Tennessee, police Friday on a domestic assault charge.

Joyce Moore was at work when she got a phone call letting her know her brother, Cartrvous Moore, had been killed.

Charges against Trevan Young, an armed man who was arrested during Chattanooga's protests against racial injustice, have been sent to the grand jury.

Despite fewer Tennesseans being on the road this year compared to last, traffic fatalities continue to increase across the state for the fifth year in a row, something the Tennessee Highway Patrol stressed during a news conference following a deadly school bus crash in Meigs County late last month.

Shortly after a woman sued a group of Graysville, Tennessee, police officers for arresting her twice on what she claims were phony charges, she was arrested again.

Jerry Sterner was just 20 years old when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1967, right in the middle of the Vietnam War.

A recently filed lawsuit claims that two Soddy-Daisy police officers, one of whom has been under FBI investigation for a separate matter, conspired to bury evidence in a fatal crash because the driver is the son of a Hamilton County sheriff's deputy.

Authorities have identified the man shot to death by Chattanooga police on Friday evening following a vehicle crash in the 4000 block of Shallowford Road.