The state Legislature has passed a bill that would add two more judges to Shelby County for criminal cases. The bill now heads to Gov. Lee to sign.

The 18-year-old Memphis Business Academy student was released Friday afternoon. He’d been held in ICE detention since his arrest on the way to a school soccer game. 

Tifanee Wright has been charged in the death of a Whitehaven activist Yvonne Nelson, who fought “tirelessly for improving conditions for all.”

The investigation remains ongoing, and search crews were actively combing through a wooded area near the site Wednesday.

The bill would let a Department of Child Services residential facility keep a child for up to an additional six months for assaulting a staff member.

The Tennessee General Assembly included a $50 million grant for Downtown Memphis Public Safety in the state budget passed this week.

Deputies arrest 16-year-old male in fatal shooting at Shelby Farms earlier this week that left Coriuan Bean, 17, dead

The plaintiffs filed to dismiss them so that the planned November 2026 trial could continue as scheduled.

Marcel Hutton, 35, was found unresponsive in the Shelby County Jail around 7 p.m. on Dec. 21, 2025.

The incident began a little after 4:30 p.m. at a small strip shopping center at 3193 Mendenhall Road, police said.

The No Kings protest last month ended with police pepper-spraying demonstrators.

The news of continually declining crime rates comes as anecdotes about local shootings have piled up recently.

“It should have been a fun day for the kids to get out and enjoy their last days of high school,” said a family member of the 17-year-old who was shot and killed during a gathering. 

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The family of Ellie Young filed a wrongful death lawsuit that Jackson Hopper had “prior violent tendencies” and “brutally and intentionally” killed Young. 

The man accused of attempting to kidnap Memphis Mayor Paul Young last year has been sentenced and will be released from jail. He also may get to sit-down and talk with the mayor soon.

A student is dead after a gathering in Shelby Farms Park ended in gunfire.

New documents and witnesses announced in Nichols' civil trial will aim to show use-of-force culture in MPD.

The two were both shot April 9, 2025, during a meeting of Youth Village’s SWITCH program in Hickory Hill.

For more than a decade, the City of Memphis has tried to quell gun violence by talking to potential victims or perpetrators before they make life-altering choices.

Whether the former Memphis police officers accused of killing Tyre Nichols will be retried remains unclear. But a separate request from their attorneys has been dismissed by the U.S. Sixth Circuit.

The Memphis rapper and eight others, including his father, were arrested after the FBI raided his Cordova home. 

The city has quietly reorganized its gun violence intervention program, part of a longer-term effort to prevent shootings before they happen.

Three were wounded, two critically, after gunfire erupted in Downtown Memphis early Saturday morning, police said.

Shiesty and eight others, including the rapper’s father, were arrested on federal charges Thursday.

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Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke allegedly tried to escape after a deputy attempted to pull him over and was later arrested for possessing more than 200 grams of a controlled substance.

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