As graduations go, the one held last Saturday morning at LeMoyne-Owen College’s Little Theatre had an element of redemption. Centerstage were graduates of the 2019 Shelby County Office of Re-Entry program.
“We are just so proud of these graduates, 91...
The homicide of basketball star Lorenzen Wright will be featured on the CBS news series “48 Hours” starting at 9 p.m. Saturday, according to Senior Executive Producer Susan Zirinsky.
Zirinsky said the case was always of interest to CBS News...
Health Dept. confirms COVID-19 death
-- The Shelby County Health Department's latest released data records a death related to the novel coronavirus.
By policy, the Shelby County Health Department (SCHD) does not release identifiable information about specific cases in order to...
One of the accused killers of Memphis rapper Young Dolph is OK with spending twenty-three and a half hours locked in a cell at the Shelby County Penal Farm. In fact, that’s the request he has made through an...
The New Tri-State Defender has learned that Sherra Wright, the widow of slain NBA star Lorenzen Wright, has been arrested in connection with her ex-husband's murder.
TSD Executive Editor Karanja Ajanaku will be reporting from a press conference set for...
If some Tennessee lawmakers have their way, criminal gang activity and gun violence will warrant harsher punishment for what is being called “community terrorism.”
Rep. G.A. Hardaway, D-93, has introduced twin house bills, HB1320 and HB1321, to invoke harsher punishment...
Shocking and repugnant is how Criminal Court Judge Lee V. Coffee described a report on Sherra Wright’s run-ins with jail staff just a day before her bond hearing on Wednesday morning.
Coffee cited the report before setting a $20 million...
The movement to free Pervis Payne celebrated a huge legal victory on Monday (Jan. 31), as Shelby County Judge Paula Skahan ruled that Payne’s two life sentences would run concurrently instead of consecutively.
The ruling means that Payne would be...
by Adrian Sainz --
Already serving life in prison after his first-degree murder conviction in the slaying of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright, Billy Ray Turner was sentenced Friday on lesser charges of conspiracy and attempted murder in the 12-year-old...
Hernandez Govan, the 43-year-old that prosecutors charge solicited the killers of Young Dolph, is scheduled to appear before Criminal Court Judge Lee Coffee on Thursday (Nov. 17), the first anniversary of the Memphis rapper’s death.
Govan is set to appear...