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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A 12-year-old girl suffered a gunshot wound to the foot after her 9-year-old sister accidentally shot her, Memphis police said. Officers responded to the scene on Lightwood Cove and found the girl sitting on a curb with the injury. Police said the sister thought she was had...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis man has pleaded guilty to helping a former Memphis Police officer dump a man’s body in a river after a fatal shooting. The U.S. Department of Justice says Joshua Rogers pleaded guilty on Thursday. In January 2021, Memphis Police officer Patric Ferguson was charged in the death of...

Detainee dies at hospital after medical emergency in DeSoto Co. jail. Memphis woman takes to social media after car stolen out of hospital parking lot. A Memphis woman has spent the week leading up to Mother’s Day trying to find her car that was stolen from a local hospital.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A Memphis woman has spent the week leading up to Mother’s Day trying to find her car. According to a Memphis police report, on May 3, her gray Infiniti was stolen from the parking lot at Baptist Memorial Hospital. The woman is now pleading for...

"Wanted" posters featuring images of the three former police officers involved in the Tyre Nichols case appeared around Memphis after the men received "not guilty" verdicts.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — WREG sat down with an MPD colonel with nearly 40 years on the force who says fighting crime requires both police and the public. Meet Colonel Caroline Beasley with the Memphis Police. “I joined the police department in 1987,” Beasley said. “I started from the very bottom as a police service […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Area Transit Authority neglected its bills, and WREG Investigators uncovered they owe more than $10 million to more than 200 vendors. The long list of vendors stretched throughout five pages and shows entities MATA did business with but hadn’t paid as of mid-October. This list was handed...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, is building one of the world's largest AI supercomputers in Memphis, Tennessee. Since coming online in September, the facility, dubbed Colossus, has amassed an absurd arsenal of 200,000 Nvidia graphics processing units to train Musk's chatbot, Grok. That comes with...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A female inmate died at the DeSoto County Adult Detention Facility after a critical medical emergency on Friday, the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office says. The DCSO says a 37-year-old inmate died from a critical medical emergency while in a medical holding cell. They say the woman was transported to...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Parts of Shelby County and Memphis can expect to see an increased law enforcement presence on Friday night. Deputies tell WREG they’re focused on making communities safer as Memphis continues to deal with gun violence. “We’re going to have deputies who will be flying drones, so we’ll have aerial...