Updated: 15 hours ago
|By Lydian Kennin and Dorothy Sedovic
It marks the fifth death at the world hub since 2017.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 9:11 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Jordan Gartner
Family Dollar customers may be eligible for a gift card following a class action lawsuit
Updated: Nov. 15, 2023 at 5:02 AM CST
|By Lydian Kennin, Stephanie Douglas and Gray News staff
The victim was on a walk with his family when a man in a ski mask approached them with a gun and demanded their property, according to an arrest affidavit.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2023 at 10:46 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Tarvarious Haywood
Desmond Mills, one of five former Memphis police officers charged with the murder of Tyre Nichols, will change his plea to guilty in federal court on Thursday, according to his attorney.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2023 at 5:51 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Gray News staff
Five former police officers were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges indicating they violated Nichols’ civil rights.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2023 at 6:09 PM CDT
|By Myracle Evans, Lydian Kennin and Andrew McMunn
Tim Shelton was the pastor of Group Leadership and Family Life at Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2023 at 10:31 PM CDT
|By Joel Griffin Moore, Lydian Kennin and Bria Bolden
In a press conference on September 20, Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner announced that nine deputies are indicted for the death of Gershun Freeman.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2023 at 10:19 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Bria Bolden
Alissa McCommon, a former Covington teacher who is charged with raping one of her former students, is pregnant with his baby, according to a phone conversation that was played in court Tuesday.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2023 at 2:38 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A former Covington teacher who was arrested early in September for allegedly raping a child has been rearrested after she reportedly stalked and harassed the victim upon bonding out of jail.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2023 at 6:21 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant and Lydian Kennin
The mother of 21-year-old Tamia Taylor has confirmed that the body that was found in the Mississippi River over the weekend is that of her missing daughter.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2023 at 1:11 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Gray News staff
The victim, who has not been identified, was taken to the hospital in critical condition but has since been upgraded to non-critical.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2023 at 4:29 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin, Walter Murphy and Gray News staff
The suspect allegedly admitted to investigators that he struck the toddler “seven to eight times” with the dog toy before his death.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2023 at 3:51 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin, Myracle Evans and Gray News staff
One witness said they saw the victim throwing items at the clerk before the shooting.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2023 at 4:11 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Memphis Police Department is searching for a man they say stole an unsecured gun from behind a local grocery store counter.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2023 at 10:43 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
A man has died while in the custody of Memphis police.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2023 at 12:03 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A man is detained after police say he stole an ambulance from Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and took off east on Poplar Avenue, striking a pedestrian and causing a multi-vehicle crash in the process.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2023 at 3:30 PM CDT
|By Victoria Poirrier, Lydian Kennin and Jordan Gartner
A brave and quick-thinking 11-year-old girl helped save her family from a house fire over the weekend.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2023 at 11:06 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Memphis Fire Department has announced funeral arrangements for Lieutenant Jeffrey Norman.
Updated: Jul. 11, 2023 at 7:57 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant, Lydian Kennin and Jordan Gartner
A health care worker was fatally shot inside a clinic Tuesday in a suburb of Memphis.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2023 at 12:46 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Jordan Gartner
A woman has been arrested and charged in the death of her own daughter.
Updated: Jun. 5, 2023 at 4:03 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Four people are accused of forcing a Memphis mother into sex trafficking after allegedly kidnapping her and her baby, according to court documents.
Updated: May. 31, 2023 at 11:04 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Emily Van de Riet
A watermelon vendor who has been selling fruit on a street corner every morning for the past 30 years was shot and killed on the job, police said.
Updated: May. 16, 2023 at 9:34 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after two teenage girls were found dead and another was found in critical condition in the Fayette-Ware High School parking lot Tuesday.
Updated: May. 9, 2023 at 10:01 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Three people are detained following a suspected auto burglary at Baptist Memorial Hospital.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2023 at 11:51 AM CDT
|By Joel Griffin Moore, Lydian Kennin and Gray News staff
Police said officers responded to an armed party call at a convenience store
Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 8:12 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
American Car Center has filed for bankruptcy nearly a month after the company went belly-up.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2023 at 5:28 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Jordan Gartner
Authorities say a man was shot and killed in an argument while they were celebrating a birthday.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2023 at 3:16 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
One of the three 17-year-olds who escaped from the Wilder Youth Development Center Saturday evening has been apprehended in Nashville, authorities with the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services reported Tuesday.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 4:52 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin, Myracle Evans, Jordan Gartner and Walter Murphy
Police say a child suffered critical injuries after being attacked by a pack of pit bulls.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 7:39 AM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Gray News staff
Jerry Lee Lewis III, the youngest son of Jerry Lee Lewis, was evicted from the Lewis Ranch on Sunday.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 7:18 AM CST
|By Joyce Peterson, Lydian Kennin and Gray News staff
In the middle of the night, one pilot’s crash pad became a crime scene.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 9:47 AM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Debra Worley
The Haywood County (Tenn.) Sheriff’s Office said deputies received a call around 1 p.m. Saturday of a large number of cow heads seen in a Solid Waste dumpster.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2023 at 4:23 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
The Haywood County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) is investigating after they say eight severed cow heads were found illegally dumped in a Brownsville dumpster over the weekend.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 at 9:38 AM CST
|By Lydian Kennin, Joyce Philippe and Amanda Alvarado
Memphis Police Chief CJ Davis sent a request to the Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission for the decertification of all five former Memphis police officers charged in the death of Nichols.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 1:05 PM CST
|By Myracle Evans, Lydian Kennin and Bria Bolden
A Memphis Police Department officer was shot Thursday afternoon. District Attorney General Steve Mulroy requested the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) to investigate the shooting.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 2:15 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
Vice President Kamala Harris will be traveling to Memphis to attend the funeral of Tyre Nichols Wednesday morning, NBC reporter Priscilla Thompson confirmed Tuesday.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 6:45 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Bria Bolden
Five Memphis police officers have been terminated following the completion of an administrative investigation into the death of Tyre Nichols.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 12:58 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Debra Worley
A 40-year-old woman is facing charges after being accused of attacking her 97-year-old grandmother, according to police.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 9:35 AM CST
|By Myracle Evans, Stephanie Douglas and Lydian Kennin
State Senator London Lamar proposed an approach to tackling Tennessee’s backlog of untested rape kits.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2023 at 7:18 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) have been called in to investigate a shooting at the Academy Sports on New Byhalia Road.
Updated: Dec. 27, 2022 at 4:30 AM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Gray News staff
She allegedly told police her boyfriend was fatally shot after they lured a drug dealer with plans to rob him at gunpoint.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2022 at 3:57 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Gray News staff
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a home on Piermont Street at around 6:45 p.m. after they say Najja Simmons called 911 to report that he had just shot his stepfather.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2022 at 10:45 AM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
One person has died after a house fire in Byhalia.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 10:22 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
As police were wrapping up a homicide scene in the New Chicago area Wednesday afternoon, another man was shot and killed by a person in the onlooking crowd.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 3:12 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Jordan Gartner
A FedEx employee has died at a facility in Tennessee this week.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 4:44 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
A second suspect in the quadruple shooting that left one person dead in October has surrendered to U.S. Marshalls in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, authorities say.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 10:39 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Candlelight, tears, and calls for action poured from Memphis Monday night as the local LGTBQ+ community came together to honor and remember those impacted by the Colorado Springs nightclub shooting.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 10:26 AM CST
|By Myracle Evans and Lydian Kennin
The Memphis Police Department is investigating a mass shoplifting incident that took place in Whitehaven Sunday night.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 at 2:44 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that Tennessee’s mandatory sentence of life in prison, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, is cruel and unusual punishment and violates the juvenile’s rights as guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2022 at 9:06 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Funeral arrangements have been set for “The Killer” Jerry Lee Lewis, who passed away on Friday morning at 87.