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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A former Memphis Police lieutenant who pleaded guilty last year to official misconduct after he was accused of sleeping with a witness had the charge wiped from his record Wednesday. Attorneys for Eric Kelly filed to expunge the charge Wednesday. They said Kelly has completed the terms of his judicial diversion by […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Plea deals by prosecutors are under scrutiny in the wake of last week’s deadly shooting spree in Memphis allegedly committed by a suspect who was allowed out of prison early by pleading to lesser charges. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee called out cases like that of Ezekiel Kelly, who got out of prison […]

Big 12 scoring and rebounding leader Jalen Wilson of Kansas is the unanimous pick as The Associated Press Big 12 player of the year. Kansas State senior forward Keyontae Johnson joined Wilson as the only unanimous first-team picks in the selections revealed Tuesday. Johnson, a transfer from Florida who has turned into a top player […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A former Memphis Police officer who had been charged with official misconduct has now pleaded guilty. Eric Kelly, 50, was accused of having a sexual relationship with a homicide suspect he was investigating in 2018. The district attorney’s office says Kelly used city funds to take the woman out of town with […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A retired Memphis Police officer charged with official misconduct is facing new charges, accused by an ex-girlfriend of stalking her. Eric Kelly was previously accused of having a sexual relationship with a suspect he was investigating. He continues to report to court for official misconduct charges in that case. In June, a […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A former Memphis police officer has been indicted on three felony charges of misconduct, the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. According to officials, 49-year-old Eric Kelly “committed acts that constituted an unauthorized exercise of official power, committed acts under color of office or employment that exceeded his official power, and […]

Dispatchers received a call from the home on Des Moines Avenue around 10:30 a.m. and immediately provided CPR “guidance,” according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES — Christian Bale reunites with filmmaker Scott Cooper, who directed him in “Hostiles” and “Out of the Furnace,” for “The Pale Blue Eye,” a murder mystery set in 1830 New York. This […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Four teenagers have been charged in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer who was slain last weekend as she was heading home from work, authorities said Wednesday. Nineteen-year-olds Joseph Brooks and Trevell Breeland, Jakwon Buchanan, 18, and a 16-year-old boy face charges of first-degree murder and armed robbery in Saturday’s […]

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal appeals court panel has upheld a ruling requiring phone records of the Arizona Republican Party’s leader to be turned over to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The ruling issued over the weekend by a divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit […]

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is temporarily blocking the turnover of phone records belonging to the leader of the Arizona Republican Party to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.