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MILWAUKEE (AP) — They overcame the ravages of a hurricane to win a national title at their old school. Now former Loyola New Orleans teammates Zach Wrightsil, Myles Burns and Brandon Davis are aiming for one more improbable achievement as they attempt to make the leap from their NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) program […]

UPDATE: Memphis Police initially said Corteria Wright was one of the people killed in Wednesday night’s shooting rampage. Friday evening, Memphis Police announced that she was not a victim of the mass shooting, and that she was shot by another suspect. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG)– A 19-year-old man was arrested and charged Wednesday night after multiple […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — According to the state of Tennessee, more than 120,000 Tennesseans experiencing a crisis called for help during the 2022 fiscal year. That’s why city leaders gathered Monday morning to address the issue.  “What else are we doing outside of our comfort zone to really get at the heart of these issues?” Shelby County […]

RIDGELAND, S.C. (AP) — Jon Rahm thought his 7-iron from 195 yards had come up well short of the pin because of a long shadow across the green. Moments later, he heard the crowd react to a shot that came an inch from going in on the hardest hole at Congaree. The way his day […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Thirty new marked Memphis Police patrol vehicles will be driven home by officers soon as part of a new take-home vehicle program announced Friday. The new patrol vehicles will be assigned to MPD officers who reside in certain zip codes in the city limits. They will not only drive them while on […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The city of Memphis has seen an increase in crime from this time last year, according to numbers from September. Auto thefts are one of the biggest drivers of crime in Memphis. That’s the word from Memphis Police as they presented their monthly crime update to council members Tuesday. “If we could […]

This story has been updated to reflect that two of the teens are facing charges. One teen was released without charges. UPDATE: According to MPD, a group of teens that were involved in a carjacking and police chase in Berclair Tuesday morning have been connected to the events surrounding the death of Rev. Dr. Autura […]

SHELBY COUNTY, Tenn. — As the country debates police reform and the best policing practices, research suggests women could be part of the answer. WREG Investigators sat down with 13 women who have been in law enforcement from two years to nearly three decades. They currently work for the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office in corrections, […]

MEMPHIS Tenn. — Memphis Police Chief CJ Davis said she’d like to speed up testing for every rape kit that gets processed, just like police did for Eliza Fletcher, but acknowledges the decision isn’t hers alone. “I’d like to put a rush on all on cases,” Davis said. Cleotha Abston-Henderson, accused of kidnapping and killing […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG)– State forensic scientists linked Eliza Fletcher’s accused kidnapper and killer Cleotha Abston-Henderson to a rape that happened in September 2021. What’s even worse is critical evidence in that 2021 case had just been sitting in storage at a state lab for months. The state made the unnerving discovery on September 5, the […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man accused of killing four people and wounding three others in a livestreamed shooting rampage that paralyzed Memphis and led to a city-wide manhunt was granted a public defender during Friday morning court appearance and will remain jailed on a first-degree murder charge. Ezekiel Kelly, 19, told a judge […]