Tennessee

“The reason why what happened to Tyre is so personal to me is that five Black men that wouldn’t have had a job in the police department, would not ever be thought of to be in an elite squad, in the city that Dr. [Martin Luther] King lost his life … you beat a brother to death,” Rev. Al Sharpton...

The Memphis Police Department released the video Friday. It includes police body cam footage and footage from a surveillance camera on a pole.

Five former Memphis police officers have been charged with second-degree murder and other crimes in the arrest and death of Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist who died three days after a confrontation with the officers during a traffic stop

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Wednesday the federal investigation into the death of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died after a violent arrest by Memphis police, “may take some time.”

U.S. Attorney Kevin G. Ritz said his office is working with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to investigate the death of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died after a violent arrest by Memphis police.

Officials in a Tennessee city have fired five officers and suspended three others following a sex scandal at the police department.

Authorities are investigating the discovery of a human heart in a salt pile at a Tennessee Department of Transportation facility.

It was a special trip to the polls Tuesday for a Tennessee teenager: the 18-year-old voted for just her second time ever alongside her 101-year-old grandmother, who’s been voting for decades.

Officials say a skydiver has died after his hard landing from a pregame jump at a Tennessee high school football stadium.

Two young children died and their mother was hospitalized after two family dogs attacked them at their home in Tennessee, officials said.

A gunman who livestreamed himself driving around Memphis shooting at people, killing four and wounding three others in seemingly random attacks, was finally arrested after crashing a stolen car, police said early Thursday.

Memphis police had a man in custody late Wednesday after a search for a suspect believed to be responsible for multiple shootings that may have been streamed on Facebook.

Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis provided details on Tuesday on the grim discovery of missing teacher Eliza Fletcher’s body the night before and the arrest of a suspect in her murder.

Police in Tennessee said Tuesday they had found the body of a Memphis woman abducted during a pre-dawn run, confirming fears that Eliza Fletcher was killed after she was forced into an SUV on Friday morning.

Authorities said that the deceased person’s identity had not been confirmed and that they were continuing to investigate.

Cleotha Abston, 38, “has been charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence,” the Memphis Police Department statement said Sunday. 

Authorities in Tennessee are searching for a woman who police said was abducted and forced into a vehicle while she was jogging near the University of Memphis campus.

A woman was arrested and booked for murder after allegedly passing lethal drugs into a Tennessee prison via a deadly kiss with her inmate boyfriend, authorities said Tuesday.

The “Everywhere” singer allegedly slapped her estranged husband once or twice amid “marital issues,” authorities said.

The Tennessee Secretary of State was arrested Friday night after driving under the influence.