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A woman who returned to a motel to confront another woman over an earlier dispute pled guilty this week to second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An Arizona woman who was stopped on I-40 on a traffic violation earlier this week is facing drug-trafficking charges after officers found 20 pounds of fentanyl hidden in two fire extinguishers inside her vehicle, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis driver was indicted Tuesday on criminal charges including vehicular homicide and drunken driving related to a two-vehicle crash in East Memphis that killed one person and injured two others, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man has pled guilty in a shooting at a Whitehaven motel in which he killed a woman bystander and wounded a man who had tried to intervene in an argument, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man was indicted Thursday in the shooting death of a Horn Lake man last year in a Whitehaven motel, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A man who has been preying on women for more than a decade was sentenced to 21 years in prison Thursday for luring a University of Memphis freshman from her dorm and raping her at a motel, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man was indicted Thursday on several felony counts, including the shooting death of an acquaintance and the critical wounding of a woman who was hit in the face by a stray bullet while in her kitchen baking a birthday cake, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two Memphis men – Justin Johnson and Cornelius Smith - indicted in the November shooting death of local rapper Young Dolph are scheduled to be arraigned today in Criminal Court, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A man who attacked his former girlfriend and a male friend at her home and then returned five hours later to kill them both has been indicted on first-degree murder charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

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.