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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Memphis Fire Department had their hands full Sunday and Monday investigating a string of fires firefighters say were intentionally set.   The first one happened Sunday at 12:43 p.m. at a vacant home on the 1900 block of Pinedale in Frayser. Firefighters traced the flames back to the bedroom.   The […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An accused squatter sent a house up in flames and now the 20-year-old man is facing several charges. Memphis Police said Caleb Bratcher is to blame, and he is accused of setting the house he squatted in on fire. Ashley Berry lives next door, and was too shaken to show her face on […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man neighbors said had been squatting in a Whitehaven house for months is accused of setting fire to that house, and to the neighbors’ home. Caleb Bratcher, 20, is charged with aggravated arson in connection with the fire at the neighbors’ house. According to court documents, the fire department responded to […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A house burned down Monday morning in Midtown, and neighbors think they know the cause. People living in the Midtown neighborhood said a man was squatting in the house that burned down on Clark Place. “There has been like a homeless guy kind of like squatting there or whatever,” Vijay Thomas said. […]

Police say that on Thursday, they found nine people occupying four apartments that were supposed to be vacant at the Vista Orleans Apartments on Court Avenue near Cleveland.

People in a Midtown neighborhood are fed up after they say squatters moved into a five-bedroom house on North Parkway.

Homeless women who are illegally occupying a house in the expensive San Francisco Bay Area do not have the right to stay and must leave within five days, a judge ruled Friday.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The City of Memphis has added code enforcement officers to address complaints like trash issues in neighborhoods and shopping centers across the city. Mayor Jim Strickland announced the 27 new code enforcement officers Monday, bringing the total number of officers to 61. He said the additional officers will bring the city’s total […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A woman left Memphis for a funeral in Africa, and while she was gone, a pair of squatters moved into her apartment and reportedly stole thousands of dollars worth of valuables, including family heirlooms. One of those unwelcome visitors is behind bars and told police a bizarre story of how she came […]

James Leonard never thought complete strangers would turn his garage into their home. He uses the Berclair house on Lynne Avenue as a rental property, and only comes by once a week to maintain the yard. 

An abandoned building occupied by squatters in Sao Paulo caught fire and collapsed Tuesday, sending chunks of debris into nearby buildings.