April 5th, 2011
A homeowner in Southwest Memphis fatally shot one man early today and wounded another after the two intruders entered through a bedroom window, Memphis police said. (more)
January 14th, 2011
About 90 students at a Memphis High School are either pregnant, or have been recently. (more)
December 16th, 2010
MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) – Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Lee Coffee allowed Action News 5 into his courtroom Tuesday, but he could not comment on camera on a pending case or the highest bond he’s ever handed down. (more)
November 17th, 2010
An old friend of mine recently concluded an email by noting that The Social Network, the Aaron Sorkin movie about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, “really makes you aware of how much good luck and timing are involved with great inventions and great fortunes.” (more)
November 3rd, 2010
Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, wrote in January 2010 in the Huffington Post that President Barack Obama is “the greenest president ever.” (more)
October 5th, 2010
Incensed when two teenagers ignored his demands to pull up their saggy pants, a Memphis man allegedly shot one of the youths in the back, according to police. (more)
August 30th, 2010
When pastor Steve Stone initially heard of the mosque and Islamic center being erected on the sprawling land adjacent his church, his stomach tightened. (more)
July 27th, 2010
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) has received a $5,000 donation from the Congressional Black Caucus political action committee, only the latest signal that national African-American leaders are firmly behind the white congressman as he fights back a primary challenge in his black-majority district. (more)
June 4th, 2010
Police say a 30-year-old man is charged with aggravated assault after he dragged his girlfriend by her hair while driving down a Memphis street. (more)
April 30th, 2010
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis woman called police after she found her son stealing her prescription sedatives from her bra. The Commercial Appeal reported that police found a 28-year-old man hiding under a neighbor’s sport utility vehicle Wednesday morning. The mother, whose name police didn’t release, told officer she awakened before dawn to find her son filching Xanax from her bra, where she kept it to prevent him from stealing it. (more)
April 22nd, 2010
Anyone who looked at Gaile Owens, 32, in passing would have thought they were seeing the picture of suburban contentment. She was an adoring wife, a doting mother. She was a God-fearing member of the choir at Abundant Life Church in Memphis, which she attended each Sunday morning and evening (and on Wednesday nights). She had two fine-looking, well-adjusted boys, ages 12 and 8. She had a handsome husband, Ron Owens, the respected — even beloved — associate director of nursing at a local hospital. It was almost abnormal, how normal her life appeared. (more)
April 19th, 2010
MEMPHIS, April 18 (UPI) — Police charged a Memphis man with aggravated burglary, linking him to the alleged crime by hot sauce stains on his clothes, court documents show. (more)
March 23rd, 2010
Seattle is the most dangerous city in the U.S. when it comes to cybercrime, Symantec said today. (more)
February 25th, 2010
MEMPHIS — Police say the mother of an elementary school student drank a 40 ounce bottle of malt liquor before brandishing a sword in her child’s school. (more)
February 22nd, 2010
Louisville KY Feb 22 (THAINDIAN NEWS) – Leaving from Memphis, Tennessee, a group of police officers were given the assignment of escorting a transfer truck carrying more than 1700 pounds of cannabis sativa, also known as marijuana, to Louisville, Kentucky. So why did the shipment never arrive? (more)
February 5th, 2010
The organizers of this weekend’s National Tea Party — who have been accused of trying to take a leadership role in the grassroots movement largely defined by its lack of centralized leadership — announced on Friday that they are forming a political action committee to “address the next step in the growing impact of the citizen activist movement.” (more)
January 26th, 2010
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is finally heeding New York Democrats’ advice that she get tough with Harold Ford Jr. — slamming the former Memphis congressman as an anti-gay rights, anti-abortion, anti-immigrant tool of Wall Street money lords. (more)
January 25th, 2010
One of the strongest series of earthquakes ever to hit the United States happened not in Alaska or along California’s San Andreas fault, but in southeast Missouri along the Mississippi River. (more)
