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MEMPHIS, Tenn.– Shelby County District Attorney candidate Steve Mulroy received an endorsement from the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others impacted by police brutality during their visit to the Bluff City. As early voting continues, endorsements continue to pour in for both candidates in the race for the Shelby County District Attorney.  Endorsements for Weirich […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — There is a lot on the line in the case of Billy Ray Turner, the man accused in the murder of Memphis native and basketball star Lorenzen Wright. In what the judge called unusual, at least one juror asked not to hold court on Sunday. The judge agreed, but court is set […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memorial Day weekend of 2015 nearly destroyed Valeria Henderson. The mother of an Army Sergeant is still grieving while his killer remains on the run. Memphis police say her son, Calvin Wilhite Jr. was shot near the FedEx Forum on May 24. “I hate them, I hate them,” Henderson said. “That was […]

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

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Sherra Wright withdrew her petition to have her case overturned during a brief court appearance on Tuesday. After admitting to her role in the death of Memphis Grizzlies basketball player Lorenzen Wright, attorneys for Wright originally told a judge they were going to try to overturn her plea deal during a hearing scheduled for […]

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 […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The courtroom was ready, and the judge called the case, but Sherra Wright’s new attorney, who is handling her post conviction lawsuit was a no show. “I do not know where the lawyer is. We have tried to get him here for the last hour and 15 minutes,” said Judge Lee Coffee. […]

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.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — She posted on social media about competing in a bike race, losing her pet hedgehog and visiting a butterfly garden but gave no sign of the anti-abortion views investigators say drove her to set fire to a Wyoming abortion clinic. On Tuesday, Lorna Roxanne Green, 22, is scheduled for a preliminary […]

Memphis, Tenn. — We heard plenty about Sherra Wright’s behavior in jail during her court appearances, but now we have a look at what Wright says was happening. At the end of last year, she filed a lawsuit in federal court against Shelby County Jail East, two sergeants and two correctional officers. Wright, ex-wife of NBA […]

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.