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    Migrants receiving care through grassroots Memphis group

    Kathleen Meier is giving thanks this holiday season by volunteering for Migration Is Beautiful. A retired nurse, Meier is a new volunteer who helps sort food and other donations for the grassroots organization.

    By Jane Schneider November 28, 2018
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    Trenary hearing closed due to security in other juvenile case, court says

    Rinisha Wright, the 16-year-old girl charged along with two others in connection with the slaying of Greater Memphis Chamber CEO Phil Trenary, was back in court Tuesday but the media and others were barred from entering the courtroom as a security measure on another case, Shelby County Juvenile Court officials said.

    By Yolanda Jones November 27, 2018
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    Memphis and Shelby County homicide victims remembered with ceremony

    Jaylon Cohen was out with friends enjoying Fourth of July fireworks when he was shot in the parking lot of a Taco Bell in Bartlett.

    By Yolanda Jones November 27, 2018
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    ‘Hoodie arrest’ aftermath and racial profiling allegations at Memphis mall

    Kevin McKenzie and Montavious Smith will be in court next month after they were arrested at a Memphis mall over an incident that centered around a hoodie.

    By Yolanda Jones November 27, 2018
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    City of Memphis seeks to modify 40-year-old consent decree, hearing set for July

    A federal judge already has ruled the city of Memphis violated a consent decree when police officers conducted surveillance on protesters in recent years. This summer, another non-jury trial will be held after the city asked the court to modify the 40-year-old consent agreement.

    By Yolanda Jones November 25, 2018
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    Man shot during fight outside Oak Court Mall

    Memphis police are investigating after a 22-year-old man was injured when he was grazed by a bullet during a fight outside Oak Court Mall in East Memphis Thanksgiving night.

    By Yolanda Jones November 23, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Two suspects in Trenary homicide waive right to preliminary hearing

    Two of the three suspects accused in the fatal shooting of Greater Memphis Chamber CEO Phil Trenary waived their rights to a preliminary hearing Tuesday and now their case will be sent to the grand jury for possible indictment on the murder charges.

    By Yolanda Jones November 20, 2018
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    Black farmers claim bias in seed transaction

    Black farmers await a key hearing Jan. 3 in U.S. District Court in Memphis on a lawsuit alleging they were sold inferior soybean seeds as part of a race-based conspiracy.

    By Wayne Risher November 14, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Black farmers suing seed company in federal court

    An association of black farmers accusing a billion-dollar seed company from Iowa of a race-based scam will have its day in court Wednesday, Nov. 14.

    By Patrick Lantrip November 13, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Sheriff’s office promotes first African-American woman to chief inspector

    Rosalind Harrison has made history twice in the last year with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.

    By Yolanda Jones November 11, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Shelby County Commission chairman: Sessions’s departure likely will not impact Juvenile Court decision

    President Donald Trump’s decision to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions will not affect the Shelby County Commission’s request to the Department of Justice to reconsider its decision last month to end federal oversight of Shelby County Juvenile Court.

    By Omer Yusuf November 08, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Wilbourn sentenced to life without parole for murder of MPD officer Sean Bolton

    Memphis police officer Sean Bolton’s killer, Tremaine Wilbourn, will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole.

    By Yolanda Jones November 06, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Tremaine Wilbourn’s life story revealed in sentencing hearing

    Tremaine Wilbourn was born to a teen mother who, by the time he was a toddler, was on drugs and allegedly a prostitute.

    By Yolanda Jones November 05, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Jury finds Tremaine Wilbourn guilty in death of MPD officer Sean Bolton

    Memphis Police officer Sean Bolton’s killer was headed to life in prison without the possibility of parole, until the officer’s family told prosecutors to reject this offer.

    By Yolanda Jones November 04, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Jurors to begin deliberations Sunday in Wilbourn death penalty case

    Shelby County Prosecutor Reginald Henderson stood in the middle of the courtroom and pulled the trigger on an unloaded 9mm gun. He then pulled the trigger 10 more times.

    By Yolanda Jones November 03, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Shelby County Medical Examiner testifies at death penalty trial

    Memphis police officer Sean Bolton was shot eight times last year on a Parkway Village street, and one of the bullets to his thigh pierced an artery killing him, according to Shelby County Medical Examiner Dr. Marco Ross.

    By Yolanda Jones November 02, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Tremaine Wilbourn trial: Prosecutors call officers, neighbors on Day 4

    The night Memphis police officer Sean Bolton was shot and killed on a street in Parkway Village, Jacoba Boyd was one of the first officers to make the scene and used his paramedic training to try to save his friend’s life.

    By Yolanda Jones November 01, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Jury hears account of police officer’s death in Wilbourn trial

    Marquis Wright was smoking a cigarette in the driveway of his uncle’s home when he saw Memphis police officer Sean Bolton struggling with a suspect and then saw that man shoot the officer.

    By Yolanda Jones November 01, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Jury hears opening statements in death penalty trial of Tremaine Wilbourn

    The jury in the death penalty trial of Tremaine Wilbourn, the man charged with fatally shooting Memphis police Officer Sean Bolton, was selected Tuesdy night. Attorneys will present opening arguments Wednesday when the trial begins at 9 a.m.. 

    By Yolanda Jones November 02, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Activists see vindication in Memphis police surveillance court order

    For the last few years, Memphis activist Keedran Franklin said police have sat outside his office in an unmarked car. Some have followed him, and other officers he doesn’t know have approached him and addressed him by name.

    By Yolanda Jones October 31, 2018
  • Business

    Memphis attorney Marvin Ballin dies at 87

    Memphis attorney Marvin Ballin, founder of a criminal defense law firm that includes his son, daughter and grandson, died Tuesday morning.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff October 30, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Death penalty trial begins in 2015 killing of Memphis police officer Sean Bolton

    Jury selection began Monday, Oct. 29, in the death penalty murder trial of Tremaine Wilbourn, the man charged in the 2015 killing of Memphis Police Department officer Sean Bolton. He is at least the fourth defendant since 2011 to face a capital-murder trial in Shelby County Criminal Court.

    By Yolanda Jones October 30, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Judge issues sanctions against city for violating consent decree

    U.S. District Judge Jon P. McCalla ruled Friday that the ACLU of Tennessee had legal standing to sue the city of Memphis, saying that there was "clear and convincing evidence" that the city conducted political intelligence against activists in violation of a 40-year-old consent decree.

    By Yolanda Jones October 26, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Police reports of camera infractions raise questions

    A report memorializing procedural mistakes appears among hundreds of pages of records released Friday by the Memphis Police Department in answer to a public records request by the Institute for Public Service Reporting.

    By Marc Perrusquia and Yolanda Jones May 17, 2019
  • Public Safety

    Memphis police force increases for first time since 2011

    Over the last five years, the Memphis Police Department has seen officers leaving every year, but grant funding from private donors has allowed the department to recruit and retain more officers, and for the first time the police force has seen something it has not experienced since 2011 — growth.

    By Yolanda Jones October 26, 2018

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