The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch on Oct 8 for Hamilton County. … FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING… * WHAT…Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible. * WHERE…Portions of southwest North Carolina, including the following areas, Cherokee and Clay and east …

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is awake and speaking at a hospital, her lawyers said Tuesday, six days after the state’s failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection left her unconscious and on a ventilator. Pike, 50, survived two doses of pentobarbital as executioners attempted to put her to death last Wednesday for the …

The head of Tennessee’s prison system is resigning, Gov. Bill Lee announced Saturday, the first major staff shake-up since Christa Pike’s stunning failed execution left her unconscious and on a ventilator at a hospital. Frank Strada, commissioner of the Department of Correction, will step down this month, Lee said. Some of the …

Christa Pike’s failed execution followed other death penalty miscues in Tennessee, which performs just a fraction of the nation’s executions but is now halting them for a second time since 2022, reigniting questions over the state’s handling of capital punishment. Pike, 50, remained on a ventilator and unconscious at a Nashville-area hospital on Friday, …

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Christa Pike was placed on a ventilator and remained unconscious in a hospital in the hours after her failed execution in Tennessee, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday. Hospital staff, her lawyers said, were working to save Pike’s life and as of late Thursday were trying to clear the two doses of …

NASHVILLE (AP) — Christa Pike remained in a hospital where she was on a ventilator and unconscious after her failed execution in Tennessee, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday. Hospital staff were working to save Pike’s life and clear the pentobarbital she was administered from her system as of late Thursday, the …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. A death penalty expert said it was an unprecedented failure, and Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee halted the one remaining execution for the rest of …

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Chattanooga native Dennis Haskins has died at the age of 75. Haskins reportedly died Sunday, September 28, 2026 in Burbank, California. No official cause of death has been released yet. Haskins, a Chattanooga native, is best known for his role of Principal Richard Belding in T-V series like Good Morning, …