“I just feel like a weight has been lifted up off of me.” 

In January, Moses was sentenced to six years in prison for illegally registering to vote in 2019. 

A woman who was carjacked and another whose son was killed don’t know one another. But they share a bond. Both lives were devastated by violent crime. 

Continued growth in DeSoto County translates to a need for a new Justice Court building. The facility, already under construction, should open this summer alongside other law-and-order facilities.

“What is troubling here ... is the narrative around crime is so strong, so in your face all the time.”

Homicides and violent or gun-related crimes have become a growing issue in the city of Memphis, with a 45.9% increase in murders from 2019 to 2020, according to the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission. Memphis set a record for homicides in 2020 with 332. And broke it again with 345 in 2021. 

Memphis police Tuesday released video footage of the three suspects from the shootout that occurred on Beale Street April 10. 

Grand jury alleges Miracle Renee Rutherford was driving recklessly and crashed into the home of Leslie Galen Young, former basketball standout at Hillcrest High School.

Throughout the city, gun-related arrests, gun thefts, and gun seizures have increased for the year. 

Collierville Police Chief Dale Lane shares the challenges his department has faced and strategies implemented over the last two years.

Rape survivor Debby Dalhoff has been searching for decades for answers in her still-unsolved 1985 home-invasion attack by a masked intruder. 

“That whole anti-snitch thing is destroying us right now. It was not meant to go all of these years and to morph into what it is now.”

“C.J.” Davis’ second duty handgun was stolen from her car in the parking lot of a Cordova business in January. 

County Commission Chair Willie Brooks denied that the meeting was called to try to hide the 8-0 vote on emergency funding for the project. 

The pairing is among the police reforms discussed nationally in the wake of the March 2020 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis Police custody.

The Memphis Police Department hopes the site will aid in the hunt for fugitives.

Judge Lee Coffee has been practicing law for 40 years and has served as a Shelby County criminal court judge for Division VII for 16 years since his election in 2006. 

While Pledge to Protect 901 hosted a march against gun violence Saturday in the Soulsville neighborhood, city leaders gathered in Hickory Hill for a community town hall.

Amber Colbert, a police services employee, was arrested Wednesday, April 6, for attempting to obtain a loan through fraudulent means.

Ronald Rickman, 69, was denied parole after a March 23 hearing, which occurred three years after his latest parole hearing in 2019. 

The two-mile walk will begin and end at Metropolitan Baptist Church, at 767 Walker Ave., near LeMoyne-Owen College and Elmwood Cemetery. 

Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis has again fallen victim to theft, this time when appliances were stolen from her new East Memphis home.

A busload of area police officers got a firsthand look Monday at the many dangerous distractions that capture the attention of drivers.

The fatal crash occurred last September on Sam Cooper Boulevard near Mendenhall Road. 

A half century later, family still fights for recognition to soften “a pain that will never go away.''