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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — We are getting some insight on how Sherra Wright is passing her time behind bars. Officials with the Tennessee Department of Corrections say Wright is enrolled in  adult basic education classes.  And despite having discipline problems while in Shelby County Jail, which included flooding her jail cell, officials say she has had […]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Farhan Zaidi got a text message from Aaron Judge’s representatives early Wednesday morning. And just like that, it was over. It was time to move on. With Judge returning to the New York Yankees on a $360 million, nine-year contract, the San Francisco Giants are mulling over their next move after […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Sherra Wright, her children and supporters testified on her behalf in a parole hearing Wednesday, as Lorenzen Wright’s family and law enforcement officials spoke against her release. If parole is granted, Wright could be released three years after she was sentenced to serve 30. “I’m sorry for what happened to him. I’m […]

A Tennessee judge has set a new trial date for a man charged with conspiring with the ex-wife of Lorenzen Wright to kill the former NBA player nearly 11 years ago in Memphis.

Sherra Wright withdrew her petition to have her case overturned during a brief court appearance on Tuesday.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Sherra Wright was set for a hearing in a Memphis court Tuesday seeking to have her guilty plea overturned in the 2010 murder of her ex-husband, NBA player Lorenzen Wright. However, the hearing will be reset after Wright’s lawyer could not be reached. Wright pleaded guilty to facilitation of murder in July […]

Jay-Z, Foo Fighters and the Go-Go’s were elected Wednesday to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame their first time on the ballot, leading a class that also includes Tina Turner, Carole King and Todd Rundgren.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The ongoing COVID- 19 pandemic is causing a big back up in the courts. Usually 200 cases are tried at the Criminal Justice Center in a year. This year they have tried just 20. Judge Lee Coffee, of the Shelby County Criminal Court -Division 7, spoke to WREG-TV about the impacts of […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton homered into an especially sweet spot in his Dodger Stadium homecoming at the All-Star Game, putting his name alongside some of the sluggers he loved watching from the left field seats as a kid. Byron Buxton followed with another drive and the American League won its ninth straight Midsummer […]

The case against the man accused of killing NBA basketball player Lorenzen Wright was reset on Monday due to the pandemic. As WREG has learned, it’s one of the many cases that have had to be rescheduled after the Supreme Court deemed it unsafe to hold jury trials amid a pandemic.

HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities said they would watch video, interview witnesses and review concert protocols to determine how eight people died at a Houston music festival when fans suddenly surged toward the stage to watch rapper Travis Scott. City officials said Saturday they were in the early stages of investigating the pandemonium that unfolded Friday evening at Astroworld, […]