MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police appealed for calm Thursday in a tense Memphis neighborhood where a rock-throwing crowd gathered after federal marshals fatally shot a black man who, authorities said, had rammed a police vehicle with a stolen car. Thirty-six officers suffered minor injuries from flying rocks and bricks in the hours following the death […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Armed officers and an angry crowd faced off after a Tennessee man was fatally shot by U.S. Marshals in a working-class Memphis neighborhood. People in the crowd threw rocks and bricks, with 25 officers suffering mostly minor injuries during the tense clash Wednesday night in the Frayser community in north Memphis. […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his wife decades ago at a camping center he managed in Memphis prayed and sang hymns as he was put to death Thursday in Tennessee. Don Johnson, 68, was executed via lethal injection inside a maximum-security Nashville prison for the 1984 suffocation of his wife, Connie […]
A 25-year-old Memphis woman has been arrested after videos shared on social media showed her sexually abusing a four-year-old boy. Police identified Tamara Marion as the woman in two videos performing oral sex on the child as well as the child attempting to perform an act on her. Authorities became aware of the clip on Monday after receiving a […]
A Memphis family is demanding answers from local elementary school officials after teens abducted a 5-year-old girl from in front of the school. WSB-TV reports, the incident happened Wednesday afternoon. A video recorded by a witness shows one of the teens punching the 5-year-old in the face. Later, it escalated into a fight outside a High School football […]
Demarko Nichols, 23, was arrested after his family called 9-1-1 to report that he’d stabbed a dog. Nichols was reportedly charged with aggravated cruelty to animals on Sunday afternoon. A family member told police he was inside the house when he heard the family pet, Taz, crying. The dog was running around the home with blood […]
Bradley Watkins, a 36-year old white man from Tennessee, was recently arrested after reportedly harassing two Black children at a Family Dollar store. He allegedly tried to run them over while holding a gun, threatening to kill them and shouting racial slurs at them. According to Fox 13, one of the victims told the police […]
A former journalist is accusing police of racial profiling after an incident caught on video shows a Black teen being arrested for violating a mall’s “no hoodie” dress code policy. The video was posted to Facebook by Peggy D. McKenzie, the wife of the accuser, Kevin McKenzie, who is also Black. Peggy shares her husband’s account of […]
Two Memphis-area men, Isiah Dequan Hayes, 19, and Daireus Jumare Ice, 22, have been charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a 9-month old baby girl and recording it on a phone in 2016. The duo was arrested last February after the child’s mother used social media to identify the person on the video abusing her baby and reported […]
Last Friday Tom was in Memphis for the Southern Heritage Classic and it was fun! The game ended up being canceled for the first time in history due to bad weather. But Tom learned a few things about hair. Ladies, you know how the rain can ruin your hair and if you have a weave […]
The Southern Heritage Classic has been in Memphis for 29 years and according to founder Fred Jones, it keeps getting better. The game is between Jackson State and Tennessee State, and has been for 27 of the 29 years. This year Jones says they’re expecting “10,000 plus for tailgating” alone. Everyone is out cooking, dancing and […]
Tom and Damon are in Memphis at the Southern Heritage Classic this morning and Sybil is in Dallas. She was supposed to be there with them but she got stuck in Dallas due to bad weather. She spent hours in the DFW Airport, eating nasty over priced food, and trying to stay awake. Eventually she […]
