Looking at a city spanning 300-plus square miles, public safety consultant Fausto Pichardo has some thoughts about traffic stops, consent decrees and what needs to be done next. 

A Shelby County judge ruled Thursday, March 6, that the City of Memphis violated its contract with the Memphis Police Association when it created the controversial rank of 2nd Lieutenant. 

In his first interview since he came to Memphis last year, public safety consultant Fausto Pichardo said citizens should expect a further reduction in violent crime as the the police department builds cases against gang members.

Sherman Weakley, 22, died by suicide, according to his official autopsy.

Vanessa Murtaugh, 46, was indicted Feb. 27 for statutory rape by an authority figure and aggravated statutory rape. 

The gynecologist did not tell patients that he was re-using the devices, prosecutors said, and also billed Medicare and Medicaid as if the procedures were necessary.

An argument about a phone led to an 11-year-old girl stabbing a 10-year-old girl in the back with a kitchen knife at Hamilton K-8 Friday, police said.

Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. entered the Odell Horton Federal Building in Downtown Memphis at about 9:35 a.m. Friday, Feb. 28. 

The inmate, Ramon McGhee, 42, died in the hospital Jan. 12, 2024, two days after being found in his cell at 201 Poplar unresponsive and covered in bedbugs.

The Shelby County Health Department recommends local hospitals adopt the “opt-out” approach, in which an HIV test will be part of a patient’s medical visit unless they decline. 

DeSoto County officials have adjusted the wording of legislation in hopes of Mississippi law enforcement assisting with detaining illegal immigrants.

A large volume of court-reform bills filed by Shelby County legislators will appear in Tennessee House of Representatives and Senate committee hearings in coming weeks.

Former Memphian Alice Marie Johnson, who spent 21 years in prison for drug trafficking before being released in 2018, has been named the new presidential administration’s “pardon czar.”

The city ethics board members voted unanimously Friday, Feb. 21 to dismiss a complaint filed earlier this month against the Memphis fire chief.

Emmitt Martin III, who pleaded guilty last year at the federal level to his role in Nichols’ death, turned himself in Thursday after a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Memphis police arrested a suspect in the shooting of Calvin Wilhite Jr. in 2015. A second suspect is still being sought.

Morant was targeted by Chilean thieves, who allegedly took $1 million in property from the Grizzlies star’s Eads home.

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Officer-involved crashes are common because of how much driving the job requires, according to a police best-practices expert.

Two men shot at each other at Raleigh Walmart, but they both missed. One of the men, however, shot himself in the leg and is in critical condition. Police have detained the other man, with charges likely.

”We try to keep predator and prey separated,” a chief deputy said during a recent media tour inside the jail.

The TacoNGanas incident and what it means for the immigration effort President Donald Trump promised during his 2024 campaign is among the topics discussed on “Behind The Headlines.”

Bradley Robert Dawson, 40, will have to serve at least 18 years in prison before he can be considered for release, a Fiji High Court registry official in Lautoka said.

The Department of Homeland Security said agents with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations arrested three Mexican nationals unlawfully present in the U.S.

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One day after apparent federal agents arrested three people working at a food truck in Cordova, officials have provided almost no information as to what exactly happened.

Six West Tennessee law-enforcement officers charged after four-county pursuit and arrest of suspect in Shelby Farms killing.