MPD Sgt. Andre Jones said the department has responded to an uptick in cases of coordinated shoplifting, mostly at local Family Dollar and Dollar General stores. 

TacoNGanas security footage shows employees being taken away by unidentified men. City of Memphis says it was federal agents.

The new complaint makes reference to a series of separate complaints filed with the city in March by a group of Black MFD firefighters.

Even after DNA testing showed he wasn’t the suspect who killed the three members of the Boyd family, it still took years for Sherwood Brown to get his release from custody.

A pair of athletic shoes — among the most popular brands in the country — kick-started an investigation that would lead to Sherwood Brown spending close to three decades only a short walk from execution.

Two Shelby County Jail inmates died on Thursday and Friday, bringing the total to four this week.

The average population at 201 Poplar has grown by roughly 600 inmates over the past two years.

“We are not going to give up one of our greatest traditions because of a few people who have no parenting at home and can’t act right,” Mayor Darren Musselwhite said about the upcoming Springfest.

Kelly faces capital murder charges stemming from a 2022 shooting rampage that left three people dead amid a frantic manhunt and a citywide shelter-in-place order.

A man died Tuesday after experiencing a medical emergency while in police custody. 

The latest deaths mark at least the 55th and 56th death at the jail since 2019.

Memphis Police Department Assistant Chief Don Crowe said officers “pleaded” with the suspect to drop the weapon as he approached nearby Vollentine Elementary.

The latest incident began Thursday when jailers found an inmate unresponsive after experiencing a “medical emergency,” according to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. The inmate was taken to Methodist University Hospital and died Friday afternoon.

A violent week in Memphis left crime scenes across the city. Several of those had multiple victims.

Shelby County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Anthony Buckner also said another inmate was found unresponsive at the jail Friday, Jan. 31, after experiencing a “medical emergency” overnight.

The 636 doors, which operate on a sliding mechanism, have failed repeatedly throughout the last year, leading to a rise in inmate-on-inmate assaults and assaults against jail staff.

Memphis police said, at 3:32 p.m., officers responded to a shooting in the 900 block of College Park Drive, north of the Soulsville area.

A fifth person has been arrested in connection with the 2021 murder of Memphis rapper Young Dolph.

In his hunt to see Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy removed from office, state Sen. Brent Taylor, R-Eads, has cited the creation of the DA’s Justice Review Unit as one justification for the ouster.

President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration.

Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy defended himself against the state’s ouster attempt and shared a limerick with the Collierville Rotary Club.

Former Memphian Richard Barnett, 64, was released from Federal Bureau of Prisons custody at 11 p.m. on Jan. 20, 2025.

The Memphis City Council took up the reappointment of C.J. Davis, which had been on hold for a year.

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The shooting is still under investigation, according to the TBI. 

District Attorney Steve Mulroy has said Sen. Brent Taylor’s resolution to oust him is unprecedented. But the move to form a joint committee to consider removal of a district attorney has been used in Tennessee at least twice before