According to data made available by the City of Memphis, there have been nearly 130 kidnappings reported so far this year, which equates to one kidnapping about every other day.
O’Shay Sims was 17 years old when he underwent a massive transformation. He walked through the doors of 201 Poplar Ave as a high school band member and walked out a murder suspect.
During Cleotha Henderson’s 20-year prison sentence, for which he served after kidnapping an attorney at gunpoint, he racked up 53 infractions, including 19 indecent exposure violations.
Archie Robinson nearly lost his home when it was sold to an investor in a tax sale, but research by The Investigators show most properties sold in Shelby County tax sales aren’t purchased by investors, but by the county itself.
Thousands of homeowners may not have known their homes would be auctioned off by the Shelby County government ever since the U.S. Postal Service began allowing their carriers to sign tax sale notices instead of owners, marking the documents with “COVID” or “C-19.”
Cleotha Abston was only 11 years old when he first entered the Shelby County Juvenile Court as a delinquent, according to juvenile court records exclusively reviewed by Action News 5.
A former student of Visible Music College in Memphis has flied a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education (USDE), saying the school and its administrators violated Title IX and the Clery Act.
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.
The number of people being vaccinated in Tennessee is at its highest daily rate since mid-June, but many Mid-Southerners still refuse to roll up their sleeves.
State lawmakers believe Tennessee’s most vulnerable children are in danger because the Department of Children’s Services (DCS) cultivates a toxic work environment.
Stroke death rates in most of the Mississippi Delta region are above the national average, and many residents live more than 45 minutes from a hospital that is stroke-certified.
Stroke death rates in most of the Mississippi Delta region are above the national average, and many residents live more than 45 minutes from a hospital that is stroke-certified.
A WMC Action News 5 investigation uncovered scammers that are posing as employees of high-profile companies and banks to obtain money from Mid-Southerners.
A former Memphis police officer is the first to be criminally charged in relation to excessive force in more than five years, according to a WMC Action News Five investigation.