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No state in the country has been immune from COVID-19 deaths. The World Health Organization declared the virus a pandemic on March 12, 2020.

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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 […]

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.

The man accused of murdering Memphis basketball player Lorenzen Wright will not go on trial as scheduled next week.

Memphis police received 238 firework complaints from June 18 to 22, which is up 2,875% from the same time last year when the department only received eight complaints.

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 […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Billy Ray Turner, the man accused of killing Memphis basketball player Lorenzen Wright, will head to trial this fall. On Tuesday, a Shelby County judge announced Turner would have another hearing in April followed by trial on October 26, more than a year after the original trial date of September 2019. His […]

Another brief court appearance and another delay in the Lorenzen Wright murder case on Wednesday.

A judge set a new hearing date Wednesday in the Lorenzen Wright murder case to give lawyers time to prepare expert witness schedules for a trial or even reach a plea deal in the former NBA player’s slaying nine years ago in Memphis, Tennessee.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A group of people fighting for justice for former Memphis Grizzlies and Tigers player Lorenzen Wright hosted a vigil at his grave site Saturday morning and marched more than four miles, calling for justice. Even though Wright’s ex-wife has been convicted in his murder and another man is awaiting trial, they say […]