CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — An affidavit says a Tennessee officer took a woman caught shoplifting to his apartment and fondled her. News outlets report 28-year-old Benjamin Dessalines was arrested Thursday on felony kidnapping and felony sexual battery charges. The woman said the Chattanooga police officer was working a side job …

By RACHEL D’ORO and DAN JOLING, Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 shattered highways and rocked buildings Friday morning in Anchorage, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a warning to residents in Kodiak to flee to higher ground for fear of a …

From University Marketing and Communication Today at 9:01 a.m., the UTCPD received a report of stalking involving electronic communication received by the victim at both on-campus and off-campus locations. The victim reported to police a previous encounter with this same person on September 27, 2018 at the UTC Library. The suspect …

By TED ANTHONY, AP National Writer It became easy, in recent years, to dismiss him as the wisecracking grandpa of the American comic book, a past-his-prime gimmick who cameoed alongside Earth’s angstiest superheroes in the high-grossing Marvel blockbusters of the past decade. But Stan Lee, who died Monday, was far more …

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Nick Mayo grabbed 12 rebounds and scored a career-high 40 points, including 13 straight in a game-changing second-half rally, and Eastern Kentucky beat Chattanooga 81-78 on Saturday night for coach A.W. Hamilton’s first Division I win. Mayo’s jumper with 6:44 to play capped his single-handed 13-0 …

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Stephen Houzah returned a punt 91 yards and one play later Tyray Devezin bulled in from the 1 for the winning touchdown as Mercer scored late to beat Chattanooga 13-9 on Saturday. Houzah set up Mercer’s first score when he returned a kickoff 73 yards to …

UTC Police have received multiple reports of vehicle burglary this afternoon, Friday, Nov. 9, in the following parking areas: Lot 31 (5th Street Garage) Lot 32 (East 4th and Mabel streets near McKenzie Arena) Lot 38 (Palmetto and Oak streets) Please call UTC PD at 423-425-4357 if you have any information concerning …

PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire that moved so fast that firefighters couldn’t hope to stop it quadrupled in size Friday after destroying several thousand buildings and leveling much of a Northern California town of nearly 30,000 people, authorities said. Only a day after it began, the fire near the …

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the shooting at a Southern California bar that left 13 dead including the gunman (all times local): 8:10 p.m. A survivor of the mass shooting at a Southern California bar was also at the Las Vegas music festival that ended in a …