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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police say brazen burglars targeted a clothing store inside Southland Mall in Whitehaven early Sunday morning. Surveillance video shows five unknown people wear dark clothes and face coverings breaking into ICON, a popular store inside the mall. The five suspects could be seen running into ICON. Moments later, it shows one person […] → Read More
DESOTO COUNTY, Miss. — A hospital crisis is looming in Mississippi as the state sees its highest vacancy rate for nurses in a decade. Officials believe the labor shortage coupled with stress during the pandemic is a major factor. Another issue that reports show is that hundreds of potential students are being turned away amid […] → Read More
The family of professional basketball player Galen Young is still processing what happened in court this week after the woman accused of killing him didn't get jail time. → Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A woman accused of crashing into a home and killing a former professional basketball player has been granted judicial diversion. Galen Young was killed in June 2021 after someone drove into his mother’s home on Horn Lake Road. He was a former basketball standout at Hillcrest High. He went on to play […] → Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis-Shelby County Schools is considering land near Shelby Farms for its new state-of-the-art high school. MSCS is re-imagining the wooded area as the potential home of its new highly anticipated high school in the Cordova area. The school is being built for the thousands of MSCS families impacted by the decision to […] → Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The owner of a lawncare business is sending out a warning after he says he got a fungal disease while doing yard work. He’s lucky it didn’t kill him. Now, 74-year-old Luther King is alerting the public to be mindful of fungal infections while doing yard work. “It’s a hazard,” King said in a […] → Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — New video footage has been released in a deadly shooting that killed two teen girls and injured two others, including a baby, at a Whitehaven gas station. The mother of one of the girls who lost her life the night of Dec. 3, 2021 says she won’t be at peace until the […] → Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man is dead after a shooting at Broadway Pizza in Binghampton Tuesday afternoon. Police say officers responded to the shooting at the Broad Avenue location just before 2 p.m. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say the victim was killed by a relative inside the restaurant. The Broad […] → Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A security guard is accused of assaulting a LeMoyne-Owen College student during a confrontation inside the dorms. This incident happened on February 2. The student, 24-year-old Destinie Jones, says the security guard, 30-year-old Darius Brown, was involved in a confrontation with another student when she voiced concern about an inappropriate comment. She […] → Read More
The Memphis branch of the NAACP is praising the Shelby County District Attorney's Office's decision to review all prior closed and pending cases involving the five officers accused of beating Tyre Nichols to death. → Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis mother says she no longer has a home after smoke consumed most of her apartment during a large fire. Screams sounded the alarm for 28-year-old Evelyn Amro as she was rocking her 7-month-old baby to sleep Friday evening. “I just heard people screaming, screaming, screaming,” Amro said. “I just started […] → Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — A Memphis police officer is being hailed a hero after her comforting words stopped a teenage father from jumping off the I-40 bridge Thursday. It’s been said a picture is worth a thousand words, but for Officer Tina Shaw this image brings one word to mind. “Joy, joy,” she said. It’s […] → Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Residents in a downtown apartment complex are on high alert following a stabbing Monday night. According to a police report, a woman was stabbed multiple times while getting groceries out of her car outside the Crescent Bluff Apartments at Virginia Avenue and Florida Street near Crump Boulevard. The woman told officers that on her […] → Read More
In the South, food is love, and there was plenty to go around at Tyre Nichols' repast as family, friends, and supporters greeted his parents with comforting hugs and warm embraces following his funeral. → Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Memphians gathered in two different locations Monday to honor the life of Tyre Nichols. The makeshift memorial at Castlegate Lane and Bear Creek Cove in Hickory Hill sits at the spot where the world watched Tyre Nichols be beaten at the hands of Memphis police officers. His neighbors held a prayer […] → Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Two former Memphis police officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols were released on bond Thursday. Records show Justin Smith and Desmond Mills Jr., who were fired along with three other officers after Nichols’ death, were released on bond after they were booked into the Shelby County Jail Thursday morning. […] → Read More
While we wait for the release of police video showing the events that led to the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, WREG spoke with an expert about how this could have happened. → Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Four members of a Germantown church died in a plane crash Tuesday morning near Yoakum, Texas. In a statement posted on Facebook, Harvest Church identified those killed as executive pastor Bill Garner, Steve Tucker, Tyler Patterson, and Tyler Springer. Kennon Vaughan, the church’s lead pastor, was also on the plane and is […] → Read More
The Shelby County Sheriff's Office is investigating a rash of crimes in Lakeland following a homicide over the weekend. One of the incidents was an alleged carjacking that was caught on camera. → Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Dozens of Memphians sounded off about reckless driving and drag racing at Wednesday night’s town hall meeting. Frustrating boiled over at the community meeting. High Point Terrace resident Lauren Giovannetti is upset about drag racing on Highland Street near the Green Line. “About a year ago, we had two drag racers hanging […] → Read More