Raising Cane’s Readies for Memphis Premiere
Piping hot, made-to-order chicken is winging its way to Memphis later this year. Raising Cane’s is preparing to make its Memphis debut this autumn, reports local media outlet Action News 5. The enormously popular poultry chain is opening at 2810 North Germantown Parkway as a part of the Wolfchase...
Three Memphis Men Sentenced to Over 30 Years for 2021 Armed Gas Station Robbery
Three men from Memphis have been sentenced to a combined total of over 30 years in federal prison for their involvement in an armed robbery at a gas station in 2021, according to an announcement by Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., Interim United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
Girl accidently shot after sister mistakes gun for BB gun, Memphis police say
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...
Man pleads guilty to helping officer dump body in river
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...
Tenn. man pleads guilty to aiding police officer in dumping body after fatal shooting
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 woman takes to social media after car stolen out of hospital parking lot
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...
‘Dead or unalive’: Posters of former officers hung after ‘not guilty’ verdict
"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.
‘It’s all of our responsibility:’ MPD veteran urges public, police to work together to...
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 […]
List shows the vendors MATA hasn’t paid, totaling $10M+
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...
Community Complains of Choking Fumes From Elon Musk’s AI Fortress
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...