For 10 days during the holiday season, prisoners in Shelby County jails will get free five-minute phone calls to family and friends.

Shelby County is seeking to expand grand jury operations to help reduce the time a prisoner waits in jail before learning if they will be indicted or their case is resolved, officials said.

Tremaine Wilbourn, convicted last month of killing Memphis police officer Sean Bolton in 2015 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, had 38 years added to his sentence Monday, Dec. 17, for other charges in the case.

When the Shelby County Youth Assessment Center launches next year, it will be part of a cultural shift aimed at changing the way authorities respond to juvenile offenders.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has determined the gun a man allegedly brandished before a Memphis police officer shot and killed him Thursday, Dec. 13, was a BB gun.

Memphis police investigated at least four bomb threats Thursday amid a wave of hoax bomb threat emails sent to businesses, government offices and organizations nationwide.

After six years of monitoring Shelby County Juvenile Court, a recently released U.S. Department of Justice report states that oversight at the court should have not ended because the agency is “deeply flawed,” enabling a “culture of intimidation” undermining due process for African-American children in the system.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office has hired a former U.S. Department of Justice monitor as a consultant to help ensure the detention center at Shelby County Juvenile Court stays on track even though the facility is no longer under federal oversight, said Sheriff Floyd Bonner.

Rinisha Wright, the 16-year-old girl charged in connection with the death of former Greater Memphis Chamber CEO Phil Trenary, will be released from custody, but details surrounding her situation are unknown because a hearing Tuesday at Shelby County Juvenile Court was closed to the public.

In January, deputies with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office are slated to be equipped with 300 body cameras the department purchased earlier this year. 

The two men charged in the Nov. 3 “hoodie arrests” at Wolfchase Galleria Mall will have their cases heard in January.

On a recent weeknight when most people were just getting home from work, nine men sat side-by-side staring into the faces of law enforcement and community leaders.

Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker visited Memphis Wednesday to announce a new initiative in which the Memphis Police Department will partner with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to form a “Memphis Crime Gun Strike Force.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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