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A woman in Indiana says she has DNA evidence proving she is Brittany Renee Williams, a 7-year-old child who went missing from Henrico, Virginia, in 2000. Kaylynn Stevenson says a DNA test with her newly-found half-sister Anastasia McElroy proves the two are more than 95-percent half-sisters.

The Action News 5 traffic team is tracking multiple interstate crashes in the Memphis metro area.

Memphis fire paramedics say the call came in around 1:15 a.m.

Thursday night, the 30th National Civil Rights Museum’s Freedom Award ushered in a new class of freedom and justice fighters.

The new building incorporates state-of-the-art technology to better serve the needs of Shelby County residents.

One teen has been a victim of crime in Memphis not once, but twice.

A woman’s wheelchair was stolen from her driveway Wednesday with her daughter’s wheelchair inside.

As it currently stands - Mississippi has 330 deaths per 100,000 residents. That means 1 in 300 people in the state have died of COVID.

A man is in critical condition after a shooting in Memphis Thursday afternoon.

Aarya Sethi went through several rounds to become a winner in a national writing contest. Her story has now been turned into an animated video.

Shelby County is getting ready for some changes in vaccine eligibility. The FDA reviewed Moderna booster shots Thursday and Johnson and Johnson boosters are expected to be reviewed Friday

The victims and suspected shooter have been identified in double murder-suicide at a postal facility in Memphis.

The former Red Banks Volunteer Fire Department Chief Mark Hanna was taken into custody October 14 and charged with embezzlement, dating back to October of 2015.

Allen, his wife, and 14 other ex-NBA players are accused of cheating the NBA’s health and benefits plan out of $4 million.

Memphis police are searching for the suspect in a shooting that left a man critically injured.

The Le Bonheur Zoo Boo at the Memphis Zoo is back and is kicking off its festivities on Friday October 15.

Memphis Police have arrested Kenneth Upshaw after he reportedly set his girlfriend on fire on Monday.

It’s the first time a Little Debbie will be offered as an ice cream.

The Memphis-Shelby County COVID task force is giving an update on vaccination and COVID-19 numbers during a press conference Thursday afternoon.

The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office says 43-year-old Frederick Leon Peat was convicted in less than an hour following a three-day trial.

The U.S. attorney of the Western District of Tennessee along with community leaders announced a summit to reduce violent crime in the Bluff City.

An Arkansas police department is investigating a shooting after a disturbance at an apartment led to gunfire.

The lights are back on in Hernando after the area experienced a widespread outage that impacted more than 2,000 Entergy customers.

It includes 50 paintings, sculptures and works on paper and begins with the collapse of the stock market in 1929.

21-year-old Jacob Heil was charged with reckless homicide in 2018 following a crash that killed 4-year-old Marco Shemwell.

It happened on I-240 at Airways Boulevard.

It’s virtual this year presented live from the Orpheum Theatre. But the lineup is every bit as impressive as years past.

Memphis is on track to surpass the city’s record of violent crimes set just last year -- an alarming trend for the Bluff City.

Someone tried to rob an elderly woman while she was trying to get dinner, but she fought back.

A new 1.5 mile stretch of road is open in DeSoto County to connect Hernando to Tennessee.