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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Tennessee lawmakers have passed legislation allowing residents in the Volunteer State to carry handguns without a carry permit.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX 13) — A Memphis man was indicted Tuesday in the shooting death last summer of a man he knew following a brief argument at a gas station on Getwell Road, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich announced, a Raleigh-area man was indicted Tuesday in the death last year of an 8-year-old girl who was struck in the head by outside gunfire while standing in her kitchen with her grandmother.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Commercial Appeal) — Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. is being investigated by the District Attorney General's Office for the 17th Judicial District of Tennessee.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A Millington man was indicted Thursday in the death of a truck driver who was found shot in the cab of his tractor-trailer in Eads, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX 13) — A man has been indicted on first-degree murder charges after allegedly setting fire to a rooming house in Memphis.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Commercial Appeal) — The seven finalists for the next Memphis Police Department director were interviewed in Memphis Thursday by a slate of 25 people, including a final, 60-minute interview with Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX 13) — A fight between two friends last year began as a scuffle and ended in the shooting death of one of them, according to a release from Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — A Whitehaven man was indicted on four felony counts in the death of his girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter last year, Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich said Wednesday.

CORDOVA, Tenn. (WREG) — The Cordova home of Chauncy Black, a young Memphian who at one point won the hearts of Memphians, was closed as a nuisance after an excessive number of calls to authorities. One of those calls was for a murder.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Commercial Appeal) — Memphis's homicide rate in 2021 is continuing at the same deadly pace as last year's record-breaking 332 killings.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - City and county leaders came together Wednesday to announce the second Unity Walk Against Gun Violence.

Memphis, Tenn. (WREG News Channel 3) — For a second year in a row, Tennessee lawmakers are debating legislation that would allow people older than 21 to carry a gun without a permit.

Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich gives her thoughts on the bill on Live at 9.

Memphis, Tenn. — As the second Unity Walk Against Gun Violence approaches, elected officials, crime analysts, healthcare professionals and victims’ survivors are calling for the shootings — more than 1,300 last year alone — to stop. Here they offer some concrete ideas on what can and must be done to curb the violence.

Memphis, Tenn. (Daily Memphian) — There was no pandemic, but there was pain and suffering. And for eight years, two young sisters who were raped by a relative two generations their elder were in mental and emotional lockdown.

Memphis, Tenn. (Daily Memphian) — At 201 Poplar, defendants are now not the only ones handcuffed. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire justice system is operating with its hands tied behind its back.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX 13) — Hundreds of families are going into the new year without a loved one as Memphis sits with over 300 homicides for the year. The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office is honoring the lives lost with a memorial outside of 201 Poplar.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Local 24) — You won’t find many busier places than the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office. After all, this is the busiest judicial district in the state.

Normally, they have about 200 jury trials every year. This year there have been 20.

SHELBY COUNTY, Tenn. (FOX13) — With the COVID-19 pandemic in full effect, the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office is unable to host the annual Season of Remembrance event.

Memphis, Tenn. (Commercial Appeal) — The record-breaking homicide total in Memphis grew by three on Sunday, after a violent weekend took the life of an 8-year-old girl in one of three shootings that ended in death.