Updated: Sep. 26, 2023 at 6:21 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant and Lydian Kennin
The mother of 21-year-old Tamia Taylor has confirmed that the body that was found in the Mississippi River over the weekend is that of her missing daughter.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2023 at 10:16 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin, Joel Griffin Moore and Bria Bolden
Two people are dead after a fire at Bryton Tower in Midtown, located at 1271 Poplar Avenue.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2023 at 10:25 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Three squad cars belonging to the Hughes Police Department in St. Francis County were set ablaze early Tuesday morning.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2023 at 1:11 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Gray News staff
The victim, who has not been identified, was taken to the hospital in critical condition but has since been upgraded to non-critical.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2023 at 4:20 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Arkansas State Police is investigating the Parkin Police Department in Cross County after learning that criminal case evidence was discovered missing in late August.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2023 at 4:29 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin, Walter Murphy and Gray News staff
The suspect allegedly admitted to investigators that he struck the toddler “seven to eight times” with the dog toy before his death.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2023 at 3:51 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin, Myracle Evans and Gray News staff
One witness said they saw the victim throwing items at the clerk before the shooting.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2023 at 6:51 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A man is dead and a woman is in critical condition after a shooting at a West Memphis apartment complex Wednesday afternoon, according to the West Memphis Police Department.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2023 at 7:19 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A Memphis man has been convicted of murder after he was found guilty of fatally shooting a 55-year-old West Memphis woman on her doorstep last fall.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2023 at 8:28 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The annual candlelight vigil for Elvis Presley is going on at Graceland.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2023 at 3:30 PM CDT
|By Victoria Poirrier, Lydian Kennin and Jordan Gartner
A brave and quick-thinking 11-year-old girl helped save her family from a house fire over the weekend.
Updated: Jul. 11, 2023 at 7:57 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant, Lydian Kennin and Jordan Gartner
A health care worker was fatally shot inside a clinic Tuesday in a suburb of Memphis.
Updated: Jul. 10, 2023 at 10:45 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A former Memphis police officer charged with first-degree murder is out of jail two years after being indicted for allegedly killing a man in the back of his squad car and later disposing of the body.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2023 at 10:48 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Revolutionary. Historic. Groundbreaking. That’s how organizers describe a new program in Memphis that teaches young men how to be better fathers. It’s called AFIRM, which stands for “A Father’s Involvement Really Matters.”
Updated: Jul. 4, 2023 at 5:36 PM CDT
|By Tarvarious Haywood and Lydian Kennin
People in Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, are finally getting some relief with their water.
Updated: Jul. 3, 2023 at 8:14 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A 24-year-old has been arrested and charged after he allegedly found a gun in a couch and “accidentally” shot his friend in the face with it Sunday afternoon.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2023 at 11:41 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Joel Griffin Moore
Action News 5 has received numerous reports of a widespread Verizon outage affecting several cities in the Mid-South.
Updated: Jun. 20, 2023 at 11:03 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Fans of Jerry Lee Lewis have an opportunity this weekend to buy some of The Killer’s most cherished possessions.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2023 at 7:52 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A 10-year-old boy was hospitalized after he was attacked by his neighbor’s dogs in a South Memphis neighborhood Saturday night, according to Memphis police.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2023 at 12:46 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Jordan Gartner
A woman has been arrested and charged in the death of her own daughter.
Updated: Jun. 13, 2023 at 10:13 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Funeral arrangements have been made for the 17-year-old son of a Marion police officer who died while saving his friend’s life.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2023 at 9:11 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
21 vehicles were stolen from a Memphis auction site on Sunday, according to Memphis police.
Updated: May. 31, 2023 at 11:04 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Emily Van de Riet
A watermelon vendor who has been selling fruit on a street corner every morning for the past 30 years was shot and killed on the job, police said.
Updated: May. 8, 2023 at 3:32 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Crittenden County Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $2,000 for information that leads to the arrest of 31-year-old Marcello D. Banks, who is wanted by the Crittenden County Sheriff’s Office for the April slaying of an Earle, Arkansas, man.
Updated: May. 5, 2023 at 10:49 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin, Joel Griffin Moore, Joyce Peterson and Stephanie Douglas
The vibes were high for Day 1 of the 2023 Beale Street Music Festival!
Updated: May. 4, 2023 at 10:26 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
The biggest party in town returns to the river, and Beale Street Landing will be the command post for Memphis police and other law enforcement agencies responsible for protecting the citizens in Downtown Memphis this weekend.
Updated: May. 3, 2023 at 2:35 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Memphis Police Department has arrested a man accused of robbing five banks and attempting to rob a sixth in 10 days.
Updated: May. 2, 2023 at 10:31 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Action News 5 got a look at the newly remodeled Tom Lee Park and the setup for this year’s Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival.
Updated: Apr. 25, 2023 at 10:53 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
There’s a new weapon in the war on crime in Downtown Memphis. The Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC) unveiled a new tool in the arsenal of the Blue Suede Brigade, the DMC’s team of state-certified security officers.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2023 at 10:23 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
And as the University of Memphis Tigers football squad showed off new players, school officials talked about the new improvements coming to the Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium at Liberty Park in Midtown Memphis.
Updated: Apr. 18, 2023 at 9:33 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The West Memphis School Board has fired Superintendent Richard Atwill.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 9:47 PM CDT
|By Joel Griffin Moore and Lydian Kennin
Memphis Police Department has confirmed that there have been two unidentified officers shot during an altercation with a suspect in Whitehaven.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 10:47 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
A new procedure at the Memphis VA provides relief to veterans with COPD without surgery.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 8:12 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
American Car Center has filed for bankruptcy nearly a month after the company went belly-up.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 3:52 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Memphis police have charged a man with the murder of his fiancé after police say he beat her to death while officers were at their home responding to a domestic disturbance call.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2023 at 3:15 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Arkansas Supreme Court has reversed and dismissed Demarcus Donnell Parker’s conviction for the 2018 murder of an off-duty police officer in West Memphis after a ruling that his right to a speedy trial was violated.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2023 at 9:39 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Dyersburg police have apprehended 30-year-old Brenton Bell after police say he held his girlfriend captive inside a vacant house, locked inside a closet, for two months.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2023 at 5:28 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Jordan Gartner
Authorities say a man was shot and killed in an argument while they were celebrating a birthday.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2023 at 4:11 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A high school football coach in St. Francis County, Arkansas, has been arrested on charges that stemmed from an alleged incident with one of his players in September.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 4:52 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin, Myracle Evans, Jordan Gartner and Walter Murphy
Police say a child suffered critical injuries after being attacked by a pack of pit bulls.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 7:39 AM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Gray News staff
Jerry Lee Lewis III, the youngest son of Jerry Lee Lewis, was evicted from the Lewis Ranch on Sunday.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 7:18 AM CST
|By Joyce Peterson, Lydian Kennin and Gray News staff
In the middle of the night, one pilot’s crash pad became a crime scene.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 10:39 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Action News 5 confirmed that a FedEx pilot was shot in the middle of the night while asleep in bed.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2023 at 7:18 PM CST
|By Walter Murphy and Lydian Kennin
Records show that one 11-year-old Memphian has been arrested nine times in just over two months for charges including carjacking, theft, burglary, and robbery, just to name a few.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 9:47 AM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Debra Worley
The Haywood County (Tenn.) Sheriff’s Office said deputies received a call around 1 p.m. Saturday of a large number of cow heads seen in a Solid Waste dumpster.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 at 9:38 AM CST
|By Lydian Kennin, Joyce Philippe and Amanda Alvarado
Memphis Police Chief CJ Davis sent a request to the Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission for the decertification of all five former Memphis police officers charged in the death of Nichols.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 5:36 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Bria Bolden
The Memphis Police Department has fired Officer Preston Hemphill for his involvement in Tyre Nichols’ death.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 2:15 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
Vice President Kamala Harris will be traveling to Memphis to attend the funeral of Tyre Nichols Wednesday morning, NBC reporter Priscilla Thompson confirmed Tuesday.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 10:20 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
Memphis Grizzlies center Steven Adams is expected to be sidelined between three to five weeks following an injury sustained during the Jan. 22 game against the Pheonix Suns.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 6:45 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Bria Bolden
Five Memphis police officers have been terminated following the completion of an administrative investigation into the death of Tyre Nichols.