Joyce Peterson
Anchor/Reporter
Memphis, TN
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Joyce Peterson is an anchor/reporter at Action News 5.
Joyce is a second-generation TV journalist and has reported the news in the Mid-South for more than 25 years.
She's also married to your favorite weather guy, Action News 5 Chief Meteorologist Ron Childers.
Weekdays you'll find Joyce anchoring our 3:30 and 4 p.m. newscasts. Then she switches gears and hits the street to report at 10 p.m.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 11:18 AM CST
|By Myracle Evans, Victoria Poirrier and Joyce Peterson
Two teens accused of the killing of Autura Eason-Williams appeared before the judge, and only one was transferred to a different court
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 10:58 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Shelby County is reforming its bail system, letting more defendants out of jail after their arrest, in order to ensure equity and have less disruption to the lives of the accused. Critics worry the move will jeopardize safety and further traumatize crime victims.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 8:36 PM CST
|By Stephanie Douglas and Joyce Peterson
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump says he will be reviewing body cam footage next week in the case of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, who died from injuries sustained during a Memphis police traffic stop on Jan. 7.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 3:13 PM CST
|By Jacob Gallant and Joyce Peterson
Four members of Harvest Church in Germantown died Tuesday and another remains in the hospital following a plane crash in Texas.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2023 at 10:13 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland promises to get the city’s impound lot organized and functioning again.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2023 at 10:42 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
The 6th Amendment of the United States Constitution says every American is entitled to a speedy trial. But in Memphis and Shelby County, it takes years for a case to get resolved.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 10:57 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Lisa Marie Presley has died at the age of 54, four days after visiting Graceland to celebrate the life and legacy of her late father on his birthday.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2023 at 11:05 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Between an overcrowded lot, long wait times, and tow truck drivers waiting up to several years to get fully paid for their work, the City of Memphis impound lot has reached full crisis mode.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 10:40 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
There’s no room at the inn at the city’s impound lot in Frayser. It is packed to capacity, and customers and tow truck operators say wait times and fees are agonizing.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 5:10 PM CST
|By Rose Johnson, Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
On Monday, one of the West Memphis Three, Damien Echols, filed an appeal to the Arkansas Supreme Court, asking it to revisit his petition to use modern technology to examine specific evidence in the case for DNA findings that might prove his innocence.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 at 10:40 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
A Southaven family has a new home, thanks to a local church, after they were kicked to the curb for seeking legal guidance when the mother, five months pregnant, fell through the floor of their apartment last month.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 10:23 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Memphis Athletic Ministries (MAM), a faith-based non-profit that helps 2,000 kids and their families every year, needs help after the cold weather did a number on MAM’s Grizzlies Center.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 5:18 PM CST
|By Action News 5 Staff and Joyce Peterson
The senior living facility that was the scene of a deadly fire last week was ill-equipped to handle such a fire, officials say.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2023 at 3:44 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
He was not supposed to be released on his own recognizance.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 10:52 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Rose Johnson
The biggest New Year’s Eve party in Memphis will be down on historic Beale Street. Starting bright and early Saturday morning, crews will start to build the scaffolding that will hold the DJ booth and the disco ball that will be raised up at midnight.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 11:20 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
MLGW ended the Boil Water Advisory on Thursday. The utility said service had been restored to all 258,000 customers who aren’t still dealing with broken pipes inside their homes.
Updated: Dec. 27, 2022 at 10:24 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
For restaurants that can open, the struggle is real dealing with low water pressure and Memphis Light, Gas and Water’s (MLGW) Boil Water Advisory.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2022 at 10:32 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Rose Johnson
MLGW restored power to everyone by midnight on Christmas Eve. The big problem facing the utility now is broken water mains, and leaky pipes and the race is on to repair the damage.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2022 at 6:07 PM CST
|By Parker King and Joyce Peterson
Memphis and Shelby County experienced a power crisis on Friday not seen in the Bluff City in half a century. The utility issued rolling blackouts to try and conserve energy by order of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 10:51 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Before the Bluff City plunged into the deep freeze, Memphis parents lined up to receive a blessing for their children this holiday season.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 10:34 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
On Wednesday night, Action News 5 got a good look at the mad rush to get ready for the arctic blast on top of the last-minute Christmas shopping scramble.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2022 at 6:58 PM CST
|By Parker King and Joyce Peterson
Shelby County Emergency Management and Homeland Security unveiled a countywide text alert system Tuesday morning, one that leaders feel can increase residents’ safety in times of crisis.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2022 at 10:18 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
With dangerously cold weather arriving on Thursday, now is the time to get ready.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2022 at 10:32 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
The call from the NAACP Memphis office to raise the bond for the suspect in a brutal golf course attack led Action News 5 to take a closer look at how the bond system works.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 11:17 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Rose Johnson
Witnesses describe a vicious, unprovoked attack on a Whitehaven golf course. The victim is now on life support at Regional One while the suspect is a free man on a $5,000 dollar bond.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 10:42 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
A scathing new audit found that DCS failed to investigate dozens of sexual abuse and sexual harassment cases over the years.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 at 10:27 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Monday night in Memphis, doctors, advocates, and activists came together to talk about how to end the AIDS epidemic in a community with one of the highest HIV transmission rates in the country.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 10:20 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) office in Memphis just held an open house for potential candidates as a part of a statewide hiring blitz.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2022 at 10:18 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS) received feedback Thursday night during the first community input meeting at Snowden School as the search for a new superintendent got underway.
Updated: Dec. 7, 2022 at 10:53 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Kids are committing violent crimes at an alarming rate in Memphis and Shelby County, and Memphis' top crime fighters are asking for the community's help to battle juvenile crime.
Updated: Dec. 6, 2022 at 10:24 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Teachers with Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS) told the school board on Tuesday that it’s past time to hammer out a new contract.
Updated: Dec. 6, 2022 at 6:57 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
The historic Lester Community Center in Binghampton is about to get a multi-million-dollar makeover.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2022 at 10:28 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
Improving Tennessee’s roads and bridges is a top priority for Governor Bill Lee during his second term. He’s calling the state’s infrastructure proposal “Build With Us.”
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 10:35 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Church of God in Christ (COGIC) members gathered Thursday night to remember the woman who once helped lead the largest Pentecostal denomination in the U.S.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 10:31 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
The head of the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) is suggesting creating toll roads to help raise $34 billion to improve highways and interstates to handle the state’s growing population.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 10:28 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
The Oct. 31 deadline came and went to open the new clerk’s office on Riverdale Road. And now, it looks like the Shelby County Clerk will not make the new Dec. 1 target date, either.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 10:59 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Rose Johnson
The holidays can be difficult for those who lost someone close, and that grief is compounded if the loved one died in an act of violence. Families remembered the victims of homicide in Memphis and Shelby County on Monday, Nov. 28 at the Michael D. Rose on the University of Memphis campus.
Updated: Nov. 25, 2022 at 10:15 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
There is a renewed push to end permitless handgun carry in Shelby County. A lawmaker from Memphis has a plan to remove the county from the current permitless carry state law that went into effect on July 1, 2021.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2022 at 10:52 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Memphis leaders spent much of 2022 pleading with lawmakers in Nashville to help the city stop the epidemic of doughnuts, drag racing, and speeding... and the call to confiscate the cars of dangerous drivers is growing louder.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 10:36 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks for what we have and to give back to others who may not have as much. And that’s why hard work is happening right now at Westy’s in Downtown Memphis.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 10:42 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
The death of a toddler who was placed in a rehab facility with her parents by the Department of Children’s Services (DCS) is the tipping point for state lawmakers from Shelby County.
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. 17, 2022 at 10:21 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Graceland kicked off the holiday season in Memphis on Thursday night. The annual holiday lighting ceremony took place outside the King’s house in frigid Memphis weather.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 10:24 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
MPD hosted an online meeting Wednesday night to teach citizens how to form a Neighborhood Watch group.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 at 11:07 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
The world-famous Silky O’Sullivan’s is being sold, after being owned by the same family for half a century.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 10:56 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Shelby County government has invested $6 million in new voting equipment this year, but more spending is needed to protect the ballots.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 10:43 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), like so many other companies and corporations, can’t find enough qualified applicants to fill the ranks, and that’s impacting the testing of rape kits.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 10:52 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
When the Grand Hyatt deal hit the skids last week, a war of words erupted between real estate developer Chance Carlisle and Mayor Jim Strickland.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 10:26 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
After an 11-year absence, the COGIC Holy Convocation will return to Memphis from Nov. 8 through the 15.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 6:20 AM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
Crews hoisted a wooden beam into place on the giant metal canopy which will be the centerpiece of the park.
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