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MEMPHIS, Tenn.– A 53-year-old man was sentenced Friday on multiple felony charges stemming from a crash that killed a veteran Memphis Police Lieutenant in 2019, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich announced. The crash occurred around 12:15 a.m. on March 21, 2019. Investigators said Lt. Myron Fair, a 25-year veteran who was approaching retirement, […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man who hit and killed a Memphis Police officer in 2019 pleaded guilty Friday to vehicular homicide and 13 other counts, Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich’s office said. Marquell Griffin, 52, had been scheduled to go to trial on Monday, but instead pleaded guilty as charged to all counts. […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis mayor’s race was not the only important election in the city on Thursday, as voters also decided all 13 City Council seats. Incumbent Mayor Jim Strickland won re-election with 62 percent of the votes and though not all incumbents for City Council fared as well as the mayor, most of […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man already convicted three times for driving under the influence now faces a vehicular homicide charge, accused of fatally rear-ending a police officer. Shelby County prosecutors said Thursday that Marquell Griffin was intoxicated and speeding when he slammed into the car of Lt. Myron Fair, a 25-year veteran of […]

Friends, family and colleagues will gather this weekend to honor the life of late Memphis Police Lt. Myron Fair.

Family says Fair was set to retire soon after being with the department for more than 25 years.

According to court records, Griffin was speeding when he slammed into the back of Fair’s car around 12:30 a.m. Thursday on Austen Peay Highway in Raleigh.

A local lawmaker is amping up efforts to crack down on drunk driving in Tennessee by seizing cars, after a crash killed a veteran Memphis police officer.

Griffin’s case history shows he was sentenced to almost a year in prison, but most of that sentence was suspended in favor of probation.

Police are investigating following an officer-involved crash in Raleigh left one person dead.

Bev Johnson, Myron Mays and WREG’s Todd Demers discuss all the hot topics that have social media abuzz this week.