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A grand jury Tuesday indicted a Memphis man on first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of local rapper Young Dolph in November, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Shelby County woman has been indicted on criminal charges in the death of an 11-year-old girl who was accidentally shot at a birthday party last summer with a handgun her friends found in a kitchen drawer, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two alleged drug dealers have been indicted on murder charges in unrelated death-by-distribution cases in which three people died from fentanyl overdoses, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

The mother of four young children found stabbed to death in 2016 in their southeast Shelby County apartment was found guilty Wednesday by a judge who rejected her defense of insanity, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 59-year-old man has been sentenced to 33 years in prison in the shooting death of a woman during an altercation at a South Memphis nightspot in 2018, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A family evening of karaoke and drinking in September ended in an argument and gunfire resulting in the death of a 41-year-old man and now murder charges against his wife, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 35-year-old man was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder and other felony counts related to a 2014 home-invasion in which the homeowner was shot to death and his girlfriend was wounded, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Cordova man who killed an off-duty Memphis police officer in an exchange of gunfire six years ago has been indicted on a count of second-degree murder, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two men have been indicted in a gang-related fatal shooting that occurred in July in the drive-through lane of a Midtown restaurant, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

It’s going to be quieter around the office after Dec. 30. That’s Annetta Jackson’s retirement date after 24½ years in the office as a clerk, a receptionist and a daily dispenser of unvarnished free opinions, advice and observations on life in the office.

A convenience store employee has been indicted on criminal charges in the shooting death of a shoplifter in May near the University of Memphis campus, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

The biological father of a young woman was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting her over a three-year period beginning when she was 13 years old, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man has been indicted on aggravated vehicular homicide, reckless driving, and drunken driving stemming from a crash in March that killed a Memphis police officer who had just gotten off duty, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 62-year-old man was convicted Thursday of raping his teenage step-daughter repeatedly over a five-year period during which time he fathered her child, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A repeat sex offender convicted earlier this year in the 2006 rape of a woman near Downtown has been sentenced to 25 years in prison with no possibility for parole, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

The boyfriend of a young mother who was found shot to death this summer in a South Memphis rooming house has been indicted by a grand jury, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 24-year-old man pled guilty Tuesday for his role in the attempted aggravated robbery and shooting death of a man whose body was found at a Parkway Village intersection in 2016, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Mississippi man pled guilty Friday in the 2016 killing of a 29-year-old man whose body was found face down at an intersection in the Parkway Village area of southeast Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis businessman who shot a chainsaw shoplifter after chasing him out of the store has been indicted on first-degree murder charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A jury Thursday convicted a Parkway Village man in a 2015 domestic violence incident in which he shot his way into an apartment, killed his former girlfriend, and threatened another woman and her four young children, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.