County Commission Chair Willie Brooks denied that the meeting was called to try to hide the 8-0 vote on emergency funding for the project.
The pairing is among the police reforms discussed nationally in the wake of the March 2020 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis Police custody.
The Memphis Police Department hopes the site will aid in the hunt for fugitives.
Judge Lee Coffee has been practicing law for 40 years and has served as a Shelby County criminal court judge for Division VII for 16 years since his election in 2006.
Amber Colbert, a police services employee, was arrested Wednesday, April 6, for attempting to obtain a loan through fraudulent means.
Ronald Rickman, 69, was denied parole after a March 23 hearing, which occurred three years after his latest parole hearing in 2019.
The two-mile walk will begin and end at Metropolitan Baptist Church, at 767 Walker Ave., near LeMoyne-Owen College and Elmwood Cemetery.
Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis has again fallen victim to theft, this time when appliances were stolen from her new East Memphis home.
A busload of area police officers got a firsthand look Monday at the many dangerous distractions that capture the attention of drivers.
The fatal crash occurred last September on Sam Cooper Boulevard near Mendenhall Road.
A half century later, family still fights for recognition to soften “a pain that will never go away.''
McKinney Wright and Quandarius Richardson will begin trial together Dec. 5 in the 2018 shooting death of Phil Trenary.
Turner was charged with first-degree murder for the 2010 shooting of Wright, a former Memphis Grizzlies player.
Katrina Robinson was convicted for two wire fraud counts. She was granted the acquittal of two other wire fraud counts in January. A federal judge ruled Friday afternoon that she will not serve prison time.
Memphis attorney Aaron Neglia pleaded guilty in conspiracy with former Shelby County Assistant District Attorney Glenda Adams to violate the Travel Act, according to court records.
Autopsy results show Memphis rapper Young Dolph was shot dozens of times Nov. 17, 2021, as he bought cookies at his favorite bakery.
Memphis Allies, a gun violence reduction initiative, has launched through Youth Villages and hopes to reach 2,000 youth and adults over the next four years to get them out of the life of gun violence. The $60 million initiative has launched first in the Raleigh-Frayser area.
The issue of crime — violent crime in particular — is center stage in the race for Shelby County Mayor, where the first stop is the May Democratic primary.
The trial of Billy Ray Turner, accused in connection with the fatal shooting death of former NBA star Lorenzen Wright, is slated to begin Monday, March 14.
Memphis Black Lives Matter activist Pamela Moses and her legal team called Friday, March 11, for charges against her over alleged voter fraud to be dismissed.
Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich, seeking a second eight-year term, has resisted creating a conviction review unit.
Barksdale served as sheriff from 1976 to 1986.
Legal and community advocates request that Shelby County commissioners hire an independent auditor to conduct a racial equity audit into Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich and her office.
Memphis police said a newborn was found dead on the side of Raleigh-LaGrange Road Sunday. They are searching for information about who left the child along the roadway.