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A Cordova High School teacher has been indicted for allegedly having sexual contact with two senior students, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man and a teenage girl were indicted Wednesday on first-degree murder and other charges in an alleged scheme in which the victim was lured to a home where he was robbed and shot, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 35-year-old man was indicted Wednesday in a machete attack earlier this year in which his teenage daughter was killed and his wife was critically injured, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis attorney who pled guilty to two felony counts of stealing client funds has been sentenced to 15 years on Community Corrections and was ordered to make restitution of nearly a half million dollars, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 55-year-old man linked by his DNA to a pair of rape attacks that occurred more than 30 years ago was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison without the possibility for parole, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 70-year-old man whose left-behind dentures linked him to a 2001 rape has now been indicted on the murders of two women whose bodies were found a month later in remote area of Frayser, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich today unveiled plans for a Community Justice Program aimed at giving communities a larger and more active role in the criminal justice process.

A 44-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison without parole for raping two young girls over a period of years, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A man who fired at a fleeing carjacking suspect in Parkway Village and hit the suspect’s female companion has been indicted on second-degree murder charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A southeast Memphis man has been indicted in the death of his girlfriend who was found wounded in a bathtub and died nearly a year later, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 22-year-old man has been indicted on first-degree murder and other charges related to a shooting last December outside of a lounge on Summer Avenue, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two brothers and their mother have been indicted in the shooting death last year of a 60-year-old man who they mistakenly believed had accosted the mother earlier, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 25-year-old man was indicted this week on first-degree murder charges for allegedly shooting an acquaintance in the head while a small group was playing video games last year at a Whitehaven apartment, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A gunman who killed one man and wounded another last year at a convenience store near Orange Mound has been indicted on first-degree murder charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 29-year-old man has been indicted on multiple counts of forcing a 14-year-old girl to perform sex for money with customers solicited through online ads, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two men have been indicted on first-degree murder charges in the shooting death last year of one man and the wounding of another man who was left paralyzed, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man has been indicted in the shooting death of one man and the wounding of his twin brother following an early-morning argument last November in Frayser, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two teenagers accused of setting up a former White Station High School football player to be robbed last summer have been indicted on first-degree murder charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Amy Weirich.

An unprecedented spike in drug overdoses, both fatal and non- fatal, in the past three months has led to more deaths in Shelby County than those caused by the Covid-19 virus, Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich said Tuesday.

While criminal cases involving out-of-custody defendants will not be heard before June 1, Shelby County grand juries could begin meeting again as early as next week, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.