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HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. — Multiple Mississippi cities are behind on audits, and taxpayers are paying for it. Mississippi State Auditor Shad White announced this week that tax funds in Senatobia, Holly Springs, Clarksdale and other cities will be diverted to pay for those audits. “We are actually banned by law from auditing municipalities, and what [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The residency program offered through the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine at Regional Health One could be in jeopardy. A financial dispute has led to the College of Medicine not including future Regional One Health resident and fellow rotations in their match program, which begins next July, according [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Tipton County man was charged with financial exploitation of an elderly and vulnerable adult and theft of property in an alleged online scheme. Steven Frickert, 67, was arrested Friday, the Atoka Police Department said. Bond is $25,000. Investigators say the scheme began when an elderly person was contacted online with an [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — More than 183,000 people in Shelby County cast ballots during early and absentee voting, which ended Thursday, a 52% increase over 2022. All West Tennessee counties surrounding Shelby saw increases in turnout over 2022, though most were slightly behind the early and absentee turnout for the 2018 elections. About 31% of registered [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Three people were left injured after a multi-vehicle crash involving a Memphis Fire Department truck near the University area on Friday morning. Officers say they were called to a three-vehicle crash on South Highland Street and Southern Avenue minutes before 10:30 a.m. Three people from the scene were taken to the hospital [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Courtney Parham, a former Shelby County corrections deputy who was found guilty in the death of inmate Gershun Freeman, was scheduled to be sentenced Friday morning. However, his court date was reset to January 15. Back in August, a jury found Parham guilty of criminally negligent homicide and reckless endangerment. This comes [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A former special assistant to Marie Feagins has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against Memphis-Shelby County Schools, alleging the former superintendent exposed herself to the employee twice and forced her to resign. Attorneys for plaintiff Camalyn Turner filed the lawsuit Thursday in federal district court. According to the lawsuit, Turner was temporarily [...]
A month after Tennessee failed to execute the only woman on death row, Christa Pike has released a statement through her attorneys.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Two of the three daycare workers indicted in the death of 6-year-old Winter Jones, who died after being left inside a daycare van in August, were due back in court on Friday morning. The bus driver Tametria Norry, assistant director Sabrina Powe, and daycare assistant Amilya Hardin are all charged with aggravated [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A 17-year-old Chick-fil-A employee, on the job for just two months, saved a toddler choking on a chicken nugget with the Heimlich maneuver. On October 21, Danielle Sturgeon was working at the Chick-fil-A in Jonesboro, Arkansas, when she heard a commotion at a table and saw a man holding a little girl [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- We are in the height of election season, with early voting winding down and the November 3rd election days away, but you won't be the only one watching the polls. A special coalition has been on standby since early voting started, making sure your voting rights are protected. WREG Investigator April Thompson [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A man was critically injured in a South Memphis apartment complex shooting Thursday night, police said. At around 6:15 p.m., officers responded to a shooting in the 2400 block of West Hillview Drive. MPD found a man, and he was transported to the hospital in critical condition. The suspect is wearing a [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- This weekend will mark what would have been the second birthday of baby Kohen Wiley, who was killed when Senatobia police fired on a car in the parking lot of a Walmart. His death quickly made national headlines, as word spread beyond the Mid-South that it all started because kohen's mom and [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The senior pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church says the church has been burglarized eight times in eight weeks. Rev. Roosevelt Jackson said the thieves caused a significant amount of damage to Mount Zion Baptist Church. They stole copper from HVAC systems, ruining the air conditioning units; they stole T.V.s, and they [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Memphis-Shelby County Schools is celebrating the district's highest graduation rate in seven years. On Thursday, MSCS said the graduation rate rose to 85.4% for the 2025–26 school year. The rate increased 1% from 84.4% in 2024–25 and 7.7% from 77.7% in 2020, MSCS said. The seven- year series compares annual results for [...]
