News Staff The Memphis City Council approved a resolution Tuesday urging that law enforcement and the district attorney in Tennessee’s most populous county refrain from investigating and prosecuting doctors who perform abortions. Tennessee Democratic gubernatorial candidate and council member JB Smiley Jr. sponsored the resolution and proposed it at a committee meeting. Council members approved the resolution … Read more
A Tennessee man serving life in prison after his first-degree murder conviction in the killing of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright was sentenced Friday on lesser charges of conspiracy and attempted murder in the 12-year-old case. Shelby County Judge Lee Coffee sentenced Billy Ray Turner to 25 years in prison for both the conspiracy charge … Read more
Officials are cleaning up a massive oil spill from a multistate pipeline that ruptured in rural Tennessee. According to the state Department of Environment and Conservation, approximately 201,600 gallons of crude oil spilled from the pipeline on June 29 and entered Horse Creek in Henderson, some 88 miles northeast of Memphis. The department says the … Read more
A Shelby County man is jailed for trying to kill a sheriff’s deputy. The TBI said Wednesday that 23 year old Charlie Gibson was arrested for the attempted murder of the deputy that took place on Monday. The TBI was asked to investigate the shooting on Durhamshire Drive after the deputy was injured while trying … Read more
Two former Tennessee prison officers have been charged with writing false reports after one of them hit an inmate, federal prosecutors said Friday. Former Tennessee Department of Correction tactical officers Javian Griffin, 36, and Sebron Hollands, 32, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Memphis, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Griffin was … Read more
A Memphis man has been arrested in North Dakota on a charge that he killed a man at a Memphis motel earlier this year, authorities said. Michael Ray Tillman, 24, was indicted on a first-degree murder charge after he was arrested as a fugitive in Bismarck, North Dakota, according to the district attorney’s office in … Read more
The Tennessee attorney general’s office filed an emergency motion on Friday asking a federal appeals court to let the state immediately begin banning abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy. The state also has a trigger law that was written to ban nearly all abortions if Roe v. Wade was overturned. That ban cannot … Read more
A Tennessee rooming house manager has been charged with killing a tenant with a machete during an argument over parking, state prosecutors said. Leaford Anderson, 53, has been indicted on a second-degree murder charge in the death of Edward Lee Brooks, the Shelby County district attorney’s office said in a news release Thursday. Anderson, the … Read more
The Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce president and CEO is stepping down. Beverly Robertson was hited as the chamber’s first black leader. She announced Thursday that she wojld resign at the end of this year. Robertson also led the National Civil Rights Museum before becoming the leader of the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce. She … Read more
A Tennessee rooming house manager has been charged with killing a tenant with a machete during an argument over parking, state prosecutors said. Leaford Anderson, 53, has been indicted on a second-degree murder charge in the death of Edward Lee Brooks, the Shelby County district attorney’s office said in a news release Thursday. Anderson, the … Read more