Crime and Public Safety

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (142+ words) A juvenile female fled after trying to strike another individual at Brainerd High School on Friday afternoon, police said. At approximately 3:15 p.m., the HC... - Girl Flees After Trying To Hit Individual With Her Car… - Hurricane Isaias To Bring Heavy Rain, High…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (141+ words) Chattanooga firefighters battled a three-alarm blaze at an apartment complex in East Brainerd on Friday night. The fire was at MAA Hamilton Apartments in the... - Girl Flees After Trying To Hit Individual With Her Car… - Hurricane Isaias To Bring Heavy…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (148+ words) A Chattanooga man barricaded himself in his apartment when police came to serve a warrant for an earlier alleged assault on his girlfriend. Liam A. Blough-To... - Baylor Girls Repeat In Division II-AA As Tuder… - Troxell Sisters Lead Ooltewah To First State…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1031+ words) ​A Davidson County Chancery judge ordered Tennessee officials on Wednesday to preserve all evidence related to the botched execution of Christa Pike. ​Chancellor I'Ashea Myles ruled that the Tennessee Department of Correction must "preserve all evidence" related to the failed…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (462+ words) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - This November, Tennesseans will vote on whether to change the state constitution to allow judges to deny bail for people charged with violent crimes. Amendment 1 would allow judges to hold people charged with certain, mainly violent, crimes…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (64+ words) Lawyers for Christa Pike, the woman who survived an execution in Tennessee, were in court Wednesday as she regained consciousness. Judge orders Tennessee to preserve evidence in failed execution Lawyers for Christa Pike, the woman who survived an execution in…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (275+ words) Two children abducted from Mooresburg, Tn., are safe and their accused abductors are in jail after Dalton Police located them in a local hotel. On Thursday at approximately 8:45 p.m., the Dalton Police Department was contacted by the Hawkins County Sheriff’s Department…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (672+ words) (The Center Square) – The resignation of Department of Corrections Commissioner Frank Strada and an investigation into the failed execution of Christa Pike may not answer all the questions about why the state has not carried out two executions this year,…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (124+ words) A Georgetown man who was caught in an undercover child sex sting in Marion County has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison. Bryan Edward Lawson appeared before Judge Charles Atchley. After he is released, Lawson will be on supervised…...

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