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Families gathered Monday evening to remember homicide victims in Shelby County.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich said Thursday her office is dropping the request for a new hearing on the intellectual disability of death row inmate Pervis Payne.

Memphis, Tenn. — Enough Heroin and fentanyl mixed to kill two and a half million people, that’s what the West Tennessee Drug Task Force said a Texas woman was hiding inside her Ford Expedition’s battery.

FOX13 spoke with The West Tennessee Drug Task Force director about the bust and met the dog who sniffed it out.

Authorities have broken up a drug trafficking ring operating in a North Memphis neighborhood, resulting in indictments against about 40 people.

Tennessee’s Speaker of the House spent time in Memphis Friday to discuss criminal justice reform with Shelby County leaders.

A Frayser woman has been indicted in the shooting death earlier this year of her estranged husband’s girlfriend with whom he had been living, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A man has pled guilty to attempting to sexually molest one young girl and stabbing her sister in incidents that occurred more than a year apart, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two men have been indicted on first-degree murder charges in the killing of a 54-year-old man during a robbery attempt last December outside of a motel in northeast Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Shelby County criminal court jury found a man already on the sex offender registry guilty of rape involving a University of Memphis (UofM) student who thought she was going to work as an escort.

A 64-year-old man was convicted as charged Tuesday of raping the 12-year-old daughter of a friend in a rooming house they shared in South Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland says reform is needed within the criminal justice system and he says that is evident by recent violence.

A man who hit and killed a Memphis Police officer in 2019 pleaded guilty Friday to vehicular homicide and 13 other counts, Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich’s office said.

A suspect has been indicted in the murder of an elderly Berclair man.

A man is behind bars after pleading guilty to several rape cases.

The number of guns stolen out of vehicles in Memphis is way up, and Mayor Jim Strickland is asking people to do something about it.

Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich announced a new plan to relocate victims and witnesses while criminal cases are pending.

There’s a renewed effort to get the community to unite against gun violence and pay attention to how it's bigger than just crime.

Unity Walks Against Gun Violence here have given this city a way to see the hundreds of people taking a stand against the plague of violence.

Hundreds of people showed up to Hamilton High School in Memphis on Saturday morning to take part in the fourth Unity Walk against gun violence.

Monday marked a major milestone in Shelby County, as the first jury trial since the start of the pandemic got underway with jury selection. On top of that, recently relaxed guidelines means more defendants can get their day in court and and more victims and their families get their opportunity for justice.