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.
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South Point Grocery is located at 136 Webster between South Main and 2nd Street.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received more than one million reports of identity theft in 2021 and nearly 10,000 of those reports came from the Memphis area.
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Supply chain issues, complicated by the fast-spreading omicron variant, are leaving store shelves across the Mid-South empty.
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Both suspects in the deadly shooting of rapper Young Dolph are now behind bars.
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Memphis’ new top cop is a victim of one of the top crimes she’s been warning us about since she took the job last year.
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The White House is being asked to fast-track a program that puts teenagers in the driver’s seat of tractor-trailers to help solve the nationwide truck driver shortage.
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A manhunt is underway right now for 23-year-old Justin Johnson of Memphis.
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Calvin Williams is currently a supervisor in charge of the City Court Clerk’s finance department. He was also convicted for taking a bribe while working in county government.
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Can losing weight reduce your risk of getting seriously ill or dying from COVID-19? A new study says yes!
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With less than two hours left in 2021, the party has started on Beale Street as locals and tourists wait to ring in the New Year.
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Each ride is an emotional motorcade that passes by the spot where a child has been killed.
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In order to keep citizens safe during the fifth wave of the virus, the state health department announced it’s expanding testing in multiple counties in the Mid-South, including two locations in DeSoto County.
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‘Tis the season of giving and a Whitehaven family needs some holiday help. Their matriarch was burned out of the home where she raised her children and grandchildren over the last five decades.
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The Shelby County Health Department (SCHD) confirmed 776 new cases of COVID-19 in the county Thursday, up from 421 cases the day before.
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Not a single piece of evidence ever connected the West Memphis Three, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, to the 1993 murders of three 8-year-old boys.
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The Shelby County Commission approved a 20-percent pay raise for the next people who will fill those commission seats and for the next Shelby County mayor and sheriff.
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A group of young men is attempting to break a Guinness World Record for cooking BBQ.
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The Memphis branch of the NAACP held the second of three meetings designed to tackle violent crime in the Bluff City.
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Wednesday night, victims received an update on the Collierville Survivors Fund, including when to apply for financial assistance.
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Thursday night at River Garden Park in downtown Memphis, family and friends gathered around the Christmas tree to remember a 16-year-old girl lost to gun violence.
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With every twist and turn of the COVID-19 pandemic come new worries and new scams.
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Neighbors say teenage girls playing outside discovered the child on the ground, wearing only a piece of cloth around his bottom.
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There was conflict Tuesday at the Memphis City Council during a discussion about recognizing slain rapper Young Dolph.
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Mayor Jim Strickland says the city needs two new docks in downtown Memphis to accommodate the expanding number of riverboats that want to visit the Bluff City.
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St. Jude’s Hero Among Us award is given to an exceptional individual who goes the extra mile to make sure families never get a bill from St. Jude.
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Big River Park is about to triple in size. It’s a $5 million project with half the money already raised.
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The Memphis 13, the first Black students to integrate Memphis City Schools, were recognized in a special ceremony at Tuesday night’s Shelby County School Board meeting.
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Bowling in paradise! The Memphis Tigers are headed to Hawaii for their 8th consecutive bowl game appearance.
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“The Lion King” ticket holders learned at the last minute they wouldn’t be visiting the Serengeti at the Orpheum Theatre Friday night.
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This Thanksgiving, many families gathered together for the first time in nearly two years.
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You may have noticed these tests by the register at your local drugstore. The BinaxNOW home COVID-19 test is the most widely available in the U.S. right now.
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Small business owners in the Mid-South are navigating unchartered territory as they deal with supply chain issues this holiday season.
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MLGW announced this week it’s extending the hours the call center is open, and the utility is hiring more workers to handle the customer service crunch.
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The third crime forum in two weeks took place Thursday night, this time in South Memphis. The focus remained on finding solutions to gun violence.
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Just in time for the holiday shopping season is a warning about online shopping scams.
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A quick trip Wednesday afternoon to his favorite cookie store ended in a tragedy felt far beyond city limits.
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The public forum was held to talk about the ongoing issue and the toll these crimes are taking on victims and their families.
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Before he inked the new legislation, an emergency room physician in Nashville delivered a petition with more than 700 signatures to the state capital in a last-minute effort to convince Lee to veto the bills.
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UofM has been transformed. Now, it’s time to make the Highland Strip, where UofM students go to shop and to eat, more attractive and more importantly, safer for pedestrians.
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Memphians gave local law enforcement leaders a long list of the problems that plague their communities at the latest crime forum that took place Wednesday.
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A training session for Briarcrest Christian High School parents brought out protestors from the LGBTQ community.
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When asked recently about this year’s holiday shipping season, FedEx founder and CEO, Fred Smith, said, “We are ready.”
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Inside a new postal facility at 3456 Meyers near Highland and Jackson in North Memphis, man and machine are teaming up to get your holiday packages delivered on time this year.
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Being blackmailed for money because of your browsing habits is called sextortion.
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A group of Memphis clergy representing diverse faiths hosted a prayer service for those who’ve lost loved ones to COVID-19.
MLGW bill payers say it’s impacting the quality of the utility’s customer service.
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Memphis police have solved 16 of 99 interstate shootings this year.
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Horrendous, frightful, and deplorable are the words from the mayor and police chief of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas after a search warrant was served on the Humane Society of the Delta Thursday.
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A quick search of rental homes in the Memphis area shows hundreds of properties are available.