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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver the eulogy and civil rights attorney Ben Crump will deliver remarks during a funeral service for a Chicago man allegedly shot and killed by a security guard while visiting Memphis. Also announced Monday, The Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference appointed District Attorney General Glenn Funk of Nashville […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It’s been a week since a man vIsiting Memphis from Chicago was shot dead at an East Memphis Kroger Fuel Center over loud music. Police say an on-duty security guard is the person behind bars charged with the murder.  On Saturday, demonstrators went back to where the deadly attack happened, and they […]

Multiple units from Metro Police are on the scene of a shooting investigation at the Kroger on Monroe Street at Rosa L. Parks Blvd. in Germantown.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office is recusing itself and asking for a special prosecutor in the case of a deadly shooting at an East Memphis Kroger after an investigator was found to possibly be a witness in the suspect’s prosecution. Alvin Motley was shot and killed at an East Memphis Kroger […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The family of Alvin Motley and National Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump held a news conference Tuesday to address the shooting that claimed his life at a Kroger Fuel Center in East Memphis over the weekend.   “Yet again, another Black unarmed person was killed because he was profiled,” Crump said. “Because of the color […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A security guard accused of shooting a man to death in a Kroger parking lot after an argument over loud music is a former police officer from Horn Lake, Mississippi, authorities there confirmed. Gregory Livingston was a former officer employed with the City of Horn Lake from August 1998 until he resigned […]

Shelby County deputies are investigating after a nine-year-old child was shot and wounded Sunday evening.

With the price of chicken soaring, the third-largest poultry producer in the U.S. is being bought for $4.53 billion. Cargill and Continental Grain have formed a joint venture to acquire Sanderson Farms, paying $203 per share in cash for a company that last year processed more than 4.8 billion pounds of meat. The companies plan […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Police are investigating a deadly shooting Saturday near an East Memphis Kroger. Officers responded to the Kroger in the 6600 block of Poplar Avenue around 7. MPD said one man was shot and killed at the Kroger Fuel Center. The victim was identified in police documents as Alvin Motley. WREG was […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The vaccination rate in the Mid-South has been going up slightly, but not enough to flatten the curve. In fact, people are getting infected and being hospitalized at the fastest rate since the pandemic began. With less than half of the eligible population vaccinated, doctors are pleading with the public to trust […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Who can forget those lines around the block to get tested for COVID? But then came the COVID vaccine and people who wanted to know if they had COVID lined up to take the shot to prevent it. We asked doctors if testing has taken a backseat to the vaccine. “I think […]