Updated: 15 hours ago
|By Lydian Kennin
An altercation resulted in police intervention on Friday night at a Central High School football game, police say.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By Lydian Kennin
A Memphis man who was wanted in New Orleans for felony aggravated assault was arrested after a police pursuit on Friday, says the Senatobia Police Department.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By Lydian Kennin
A disturbance call was made in Collierville on Friday after police say a man shot another person after a disagreement at a pickup basketball game.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By Lydian Kennin
The Helena-West Helena Police Department is currently investigating the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy in Arkansas.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By Lydian Kennin
The Helena-West Helena Police Department arrested a man on Thursday after police say he stabbed his girlfriend in the eye during an argument last month.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By Lydian Kennin
A man is wanted by Horn Lake police after they say he walked out of Bullfrog Corner Pawn & Guns on Thursday with handguns without paying or completing the necessary background check.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By Lydian Kennin
A City Watch Alert has been issued for Katherine Rinehart, 95, who was dropped off at the front door of the Lucille McWherter Senior Center Friday morning for her daily activities by her caregiver.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By Lydian Kennin
Congressman Steve Cohen, a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, announced on Friday that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will provide the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) with two grants totaling $76,378,905 to revitalize the city’s bus system.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 5:39 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A MLGW lineman was fatally injured early Thursday afternoon on a job site in Barrett Oaks.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 5:00 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Memphis CrimeStoppers and Shelby County announced a special reward on Thursday of up to $25,000 for information leading to one or more arrests in a string of organized “grab and run” retail liquor store burglaries this year.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 3:49 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Mississippi Department of Health (MSDH) announced on Thursday that high-risk Mississippians can now be considered for vaccination against monkeypox.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 6:26 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Action News 5 Staff
The Memphis Fire Department says one firefighter died following a crash in South Memphis Wednesday night.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 at 5:45 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The man accused of stabbing a mother and her 14-year-old son to death in Raleigh is back in Memphis after he was arrested by Arkansas State Troopers two weeks ago.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 at 5:26 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) has issued a Silver Alert for 63-year-old Brenda Macklin on behalf of the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 at 3:51 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The animal rights nonprofit PETA has sent a letter to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday asking officials to investigate illegal gambling, drug usage, and horse doping it alleges is taking place at a Frayser race track.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 at 2:50 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Bluff City is opening a new Chipotle Mexican Grill on Saturday, with the city’s first location featuring a drive-through pickup lane.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 10:49 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The woman who was charged as a 16-year-old for the 2018 murder of Memphis Chamber CEO Phil Trenary is back behind bars after a shooting incident in May.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 9:44 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Germantown police and fire responders responded to a possible drowning at Riverdale Park on Tuesday night.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 5:38 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A Horn Lake man is wanted by Southaven police in connection with a shooting that took place on Monday at the Dorchester Place Apartments.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 5:22 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
David Swift, now accused of premeditated first-degree murder in the death of his late wife Karen Swift, will face arraignment in a Dyersburg courtroom on Wednesday morning.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 4:43 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Memphis Police Department has released surveillance photos of three suspects who are accused of killing a man Monday night after raiding a motel with assault rifles.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 3:35 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The U.S Marshals Service has announced that a Puerto Rican murder fugitive was arrested in Memphis on Monday.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 2:52 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A Memphis police officer was injured after attempting to pull over an 18-year-old carjacking suspect on Monday.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 9:35 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Memphis Police Department has confirmed that a shooting in Whitehaven left one dead and another in critical condition.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 8:25 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Covington Police Department arrested a man who shot his girlfriend in the chest and stood by her side as emergency responders revived her, police say.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 7:41 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Members of the Dyer County Grand Jury indicted former Dyer County resident David Swift on a charge of pre-meditated first-degree murder in the death of his former wife, the late Karen Swift.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 3:39 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The man who threatened to shoot concert-goers leaving the FedEx Forum after a breakup in July will only be facing one charge of attempted murder, the court decided on Monday.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2022 at 6:58 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Memphis police responded to a “man-down” call Sunday evening at the intersection of East Brooks Road and Elvis Presley Boulevard, where a man’s body was found lying on the ground in front of a public bench.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2022 at 2:51 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Shelby County Criminal Court deliberated for only about an hour on Sunday morning before convicting 25-year-old Keedrin Coppage for the brutal murder of his 18-year-old ex-girlfriend, whose body he left on a North Memphis street corner in 2020.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2022 at 7:32 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A man is in critical condition after Memphis police say they were flagged down by a shooting victim downtown at 5:26 p.m. Saturday evening.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2022 at 4:18 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Alcorn County Sheriff’s Office has located and arrested Landon Braudway early Saturday morning.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2022 at 3:10 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Members of the Memphis task force that responded to the floodwaters of eastern Kentucky are back home.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2022 at 9:41 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Alcorn County Sheriff’s Office announced that three of the four inmates who escaped Alcorn County Jail Friday morning have been located and arrested in Baton Rouge, La.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2022 at 5:22 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Board of Trustees of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art announced on Friday that it has chosen Dr. Zoe Kahr to lead the museum as its new executive director.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2022 at 4:28 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A motion for a new trial was held on Friday for Billy Ray Turner, the man who was found guilty of the 2017 murder of NBA star Lorenzen Wright.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2022 at 12:12 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Despite recent controversy in while in office, Incumbent Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert held a narrow lead against her challenger Jeff Jacobs in the race for county clerk.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 11:37 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
As the early election results come in, incumbent Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner’s odds of re-election are high as he takes the lead with 77 percent of votes.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 9:00 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Memphis Police Department has released information about the victim of a July 24 homicide that took place in Midtown.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 7:21 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Memphis Police Department is searching for six persons of interest in relation to a homicide that took place on Monday night.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 5:10 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Memphis Police Department is searching for a suspect allegedly responsible for a double homicide that took place in 2020.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 4:16 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
After a brief “soft” lockdown of South Panola Schools, fugitive Markevious Robinson was located and apprehended on Draper Street in Batesville on Thursday afternoon.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 3:01 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Memphis Police Department has made three arrests following a short pursuit of a reckless driver that resulted in aggravated assault to an officer.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 4:36 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Memphis’ only historically-Black college is hosting its second annual “807 Day of Giving” to help fund student scholarships, recruitment, and retention strategies.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2022 at 11:10 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Memphis Police Department has issued a City Watch alert for 27-year-old Wesley Nunnally Sunday night.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2022 at 8:40 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A City Watch alert has been issued for a one-year-old who was last seen with his aunt, Jakayla Brown, last Sunday.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2022 at 4:25 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
14 felony arrests were made in a one-day joint operation by Memphis police on Friday, where four stolen vehicles along with five handguns were recovered.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2022 at 3:22 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Family of the young boy who was struck while crossing East Parkway on Wednesday say he did not survive his injuries.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2022 at 2:56 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A Nutbush-area man saw his bond increased to $150,000 after prosecutors played a tape in court on which he threatened to shoot reporters if “they come to his home again,” said Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2022 at 8:31 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A teenage boy has died after being shot in North Memphis, police say.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2022 at 3:00 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
- A Binghampton man was sentenced to 30 years in prison without parole on Thursday after he admitted to sexually abusing a young girl for the past three to four years, said Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich.