Memphis TN

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The Memphis Safe Task Force warrant strike teams do nothing but serve warrants. That’s their expertise. To serve a warrant, you have to find a fugitive who may go to any lengths to escape capture. Using modern technology, combined with good, old-fashioned detective work, the strike teams, led...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.’s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics “Green Onions,” “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” and “In the Midnight Hour,” has died. He was 84.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Police Department is searching for a suspect involved in a shooting at Walgreens that left one person hurt in Midtown Friday morning. According to officers, they responded to a shooting call at 9:24 a.m. in the 1300 block of Poplar Avenue. Police say a male victim was taken to the […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A man was shot in the chest near a Memphis community center on Friday morning, police said. According to the Memphis Police Department (MPD), it happened just after 11 a.m. near the Marion Hale Community Center. Police said officers arrived to find a man had suffered a gunshot wound to his chest; he...

Some U.S. cities inspire such unsettling experiences that travelers publicly vow never to return, often citing crime, visible neglect, or a sense that basic safety has broken down. Drawing on detailed crime statistics and widely shared accounts from a heavily commented travel thread, I look at nine places that have...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Daniel Kiel, FedEx Professor of Law at the University of Memphis, said the case against the National Guard’s presence in Memphis will most likely move faster than expected. Kiel said that’s because there’s not a lot of factual disputes, but rather arguments about what those...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Samantha Marion, the woman accused of murdering a pastor earlier this year, is set to appear back in court after her bond hearing was reset last week. Forty-two-year-old Marion was initially charged with voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Ricky Floyd, who is a pastor at Pursuit of God...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) is backing up numbers by police that crime is at a historic low in Memphis.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A juvenile, Jesse Martinez Jr., has been transferred to adult court and is now charged with first-degree murder. Martinez is being charged as an adult for the killing of 15-year-old Michael Aguilar; family members identified the victim as Aguilar. The charge stems from an April shooting...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two brothers are now in jail after police say they shot a man several times at a Hickory Hill apartment complex before robbing him last month. Dewayne Jacobs, 18, and Lamarian Jacobs, 22, are both charged with criminal attempt first-degree murder, aggravated robbery, and employment of a firearm with...