Family members of a 12-year-old Memphis boy who was fatally shot at home after he wrote a letter to Gov. Bill Lee opposing Tennessee’s permitless carry gun law are leading a push for changes to state law to prevent further violence. Artemis Rayford even said “people will be murdered” because of the new law in … Read more
A 14-year-old boy has been charged in the deaths of two people who were passengers in a car he was driving that crashed in Memphis, Tennessee, police said. The boy was driving a car that went out of control and hit a utility pole early Monday near Memphis International Airport, Memphis police said on Twitter. … Read more
A jury has convicted a Memphis man in the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son, a prosecutor said. Jurors returned a guilty verdict on Friday for Marterrius Hite, 29, on charges of murder in the perpetration of aggravated child abuse, murder in the perpetration of aggravated child neglect, aggravated child abuse and aggravated child neglect, … Read more
A Tennessee man has been charged with fatally shooting a customer outside a Memphis tire shop, prosecutors said. Jerome Jamison, 28, has been indicted on a first-degree charge in the Oct. 3 shooting of Milton Davidson outside Brothers Tire Service and Towing in Memphis, the Shelby County district attorney’s office said. Investigators said Jamison frequently … Read more
The Shelby County ELection Commission has decided to eliminate more voting precincts. In fact, Shelby County will have 30 fewer voting precincts for the upcoming May primary election. The commission says the move will save taxpayer money. There will be 134 voting locations to serve more than a half million registered voters in the county. … Read more
Some troubling news out of West Memphis, Arkansas, where local health officials confirm they recently discovered more than a thousand dead rats at the Family Dollar Distribution Center. FDA Inspectors made the discovery and have now ordered more than 400 Family Dollar stores to close temporarily. Some employees at the distribution center began complaining of … Read more
Poclie have released new information on the investigation into the killing of rapper Young Dolph in Memphis. Now, two more, previously unidentified, suspects are being hunted down. Memphis Poclie say they’re looking for 26 year-old Joshua Taylor and 26 year old Devin Burns. This, after police last week said they had also issued an arrest … Read more
A FedEx worker was killed in a forklift accident early Friday at the shipping giant’s facility in Memphis, Tennessee, police said. Police were notified at about 2:30 a.m. about a woman who died while operating a forklift at the facility, Memphis police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph said. The worker’s name was not immediately released. FedEx released … Read more
Ford Motor Co. and a South Korean company would have to create more than 5,000 full-time jobs at a planned electric pickup truck factory and battery manufacturing plant in Tennessee or pay back at least part of a $500 million state grant for the project, according to a lease approved Thursday by a regional board. … Read more
Large parts of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee will be at risk of powerful thunderstorms and possibly tornadoes as storms sweep into the South on Thursday, forecasters said More than 20 million people are in a zone that’s at risk of severe weather on Thursday, the national Storm Prediction Center said Wednesday. The region most in … Read more