Slideshow (Booking Photo: Chancy Jones)  MEMPHIS, TN –Memphis police announced, during a news conference, that an MPD officer has been arrested and charged with Second Degree Murder in the death of a woman who was found inside a car at a Memphis...

WEST MEMPHIS, AR – Police say a man suspected of breaking into a car was shot while running away from the scene.According to West Memphis Police Capitan Donald Oakes, it happened around 12:30 a.m., Wednesday, September 10, 2008, in the 800 block of North...

MEMPHIS, TN - A Memphis family says 79 year-old Tina French didn't have to die and blames the Memphis Fire Department. French wore an emergency alert alarm around her neck, because of a life threatening illness. On March 25, 2008, French was having...

MEMPHIS, TN – Police say a 15 year-old girl slapped a teacher for taking a phone away from her at Raleigh-Egypt High School.According to Memphis Police Detective Monique Martin, the incident happened around 10:20 a.m., Tuesday, September 02, 2008. Martin...

(Booking Photo: Reginald Davis) FORREST CITY, AR – Police say a Forrest City, Arkansas man has been charged with raping his 8 day-old baby.According to a police report, officers were called to the Forrest City Medical Center, September 1, 2008,...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee teenager says a school dress code banning the Confederate flag violates his free speech rights.   Tommy DeFoe wore his Confederate flag belt buckle today as he argued his case before a federal court...

Helena-West Helena, AR - Go home or go to jail!  Those are the only two options for people living in one Mid-South neighborhood.  The mayor of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas has issued a mandatory curfew.  The curfew is in place for...

(Booking Photo: D’Andre Blake) MEMPHIS, TN – Police say a 2 year-old girl was beaten to death by her father over a potty training issue. According to Major Joe Scott with the Memphis Police Department, officers were called to the 1200 block of...

(Brian Teigland 1955-2008) MEMPHIS, TN - One of the Memphis area’s best known television news personalities died suddenly this morning.  Brian Teigland, Chief Meteorologist for ABC24 and CW30’s Eyewitness News Everywhere, became ill at his...

  (Booking Photo: Marvin L. Sturdivant) MEMPHIS, TN – Police say a man has been arrested in the case of an elderly woman who was stabbed in the face with a fork, during a robbery. According to investigators, it happened at St. Peters Manor...

Booking Photo: Shanta McKinney (Covingtion Police)   COVINGTON, TN – Police say a 60 year-old Tennessee woman was hit in the leg by a stray bullet while she was watching TV. According to Covington Police, the shooting happened around 7:30...

Memphis, TN -- A 17 year-old boy led Shelby County deputies on a chase through Hickory Hill and Germantown neighborhoods. In the end, officers say the teenager rammed his stolen Jeep into a deputy's squad car three different times. Investigators...

JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - State workplace safety officials are investigating the death of a golf course worker in Jackson. On Tuesday, the body of 62 year-old Vincent DeGaetano was found under a cart at Jones Creek Golf Course. Police said it appeared the...

(Booking Photo: Earnest Haleem Smith) MEMPHIS, TN – The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has added a Memphis man to its Top Ten Most Wanted list. Investigators say 32 year-old Ernest Haleem Smith is wanted by the Memphis Police Department for Criminal...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.  The warning from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director...

(Booking Photo: Davy Lee Spotts)   MEMPHIS, TN - Police say a 37 year-old Memphis woman has been charged with 2nd Degree Murder in the stabbing death of her 67 year-old father. According to investigators, Don Reynolds was found dead around...

SHELBY COUNT, TN – Shelby County Sheriff’s Deputies say 5 teens, ages 13 to 16, have been arrested in a burglary ring. According to a Shelby County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson, Deputies arrested a 16 year-boy for burglarizing a house in the 4600 block...

MEMPHIS, TN – Family members of a child who died from an asthma attack, say it happened because he witnessed a carjacking. According to court documents, the carjacking happened around 9:40 p.m., July 18, 2008, at a Wal-Mart store on Austin...

MEMPHIS, TN – Police say a customer who entered a store during a robbery was able to leave and call police. According to investigators, the robbery happened around 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 22,  2008, at the Title Max loan store at 3130 Austin Peay....

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Jackson police are investigating the mauling death of a 3 year-old boy by a pit bull. Police say the child died Tuesday night from the attack by the chained animal in south Jackson. The boy, whom police are not identifying, was taken...

HERNANDO, Miss. (AP) - DeSoto County officials are confirming an FBI investigation into allegations of inmate beatings at the county jail. Lent Rice, commander of the sheriff's department Internal Affairs Bureau, says at one least one jailer has been...

Memphis, TN- Police are looking for a man who talked his way into a senior living center and stabbed an elderly woman in the face with a fork. It happened around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at St. Peter Manor in midtown Memphis.  Police...

(Photo: Michael Hooks, Jr., former MCS board member, pleaded guilty to embezzlement Thursday, January 10. 2008. He was indicted as part of Operation Tennessee Waltz.)    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Shelby County has hired a former county official...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) - A 4 year-old boy has been struck and killed in Kingsport while riding a bicycle in the courtyard of an apartment complex. Police say Jamarion H. Carpenter was pronounced dead at Holston Valley Medical Center after being injured...

SAVANNAH, Tenn. (AP) - The owner of a southern Tennessee furniture store has been charged with killing one of his employees.Ken Qualls, owner of Savannah Furniture exchange, was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly shooting an employee following an argument.Qualls...