Memphis Headlines

In his final hours, Shelby County sheriff's deputy Ian Seivwright used his proficiency with technology to choreograph a suicide 2.0.

O'Reilly competitor Leif Helander, 65, always admired NHRA drag racing from afar — very afar, as in Sweden.

It's something like "American Idol" for gospel choirs.

Two juveniles accused in a South Memphis homicide have been transferred to criminal court to be prosecuted as adults.

Albert Earl Dorsey was sentenced to life without parole for strangling and stabbing to death the sister of his girlfriend.

Witnesses earlier told police that something, possibly an infant, was ejected from a white van.

From musicians to politicians to friends and neighbors, they came to celebrate Smith’s lifetime of civil rights activism, his 21-year role as a crusading public servant and his 56 years as partner to wife and civil rights heroine Maxine Smith.

Burks, 29, pointed out Darquan Swift as the man who shot him in the lower left abdomen as he tried to run from a robbery on July 20.

Patrick Holland and Lonnie Johnson, both 23, are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Pamela Hale, 27.

Oak Court Mall's doors opened at 10a.m. Thursday to a battalion of determined job seekers. Ranging in age from teenagers to adults in their early 60s, they were armed with résumés and high hopes. All of the job seekers were searching for new employment opportunities at WMC-TV's JobLink job fair, held in the mall's Center Court until 3 p.m. — just when the Dow Jones industrial average finished tumbling down 203 points.

Two-and-a-half years ago, Heather Fox was lying in the street at Hollywood and Sam Cooper Boulevard, blood spilling onto the pavement, her life about to end at age 34. Then an 18-year-old stranger, Ashley Sanders, kneeled over and pushed down hard on the bullet wound, stemming the flow of blood. On Thursday night, Fox was at Bellevue Baptist Church to see Sanders, now her friend, graduate with a degree in pharmacy technology, on the path to a new life.

Gregory Montgomery, 51, of Memphis faces a burglary charge in connection with the theft of cigarettes from a convenience store.

Many protestors believe the vaccine was too hastily tested before it was mass produced and is an unfit treatment.

Torie Lindsey, a Whitehaven mother of three, gets $125 a month from the state to help buy supplies and an occasional sitter for her 11-year-old daughter Briana, who is disabled with severe cerebral palsy.

A 29-year-old soldier from Fort Campbell, Ky., has been indicted in federal court in Jackson, Tenn., for illegal possession of an anti-tank rocket and four hand grenades.

MLGW board members are talking about increasing water rates, probably after 2010.

The four charter schools run by Memphis City Schools board of education do not meet the letter of the law, according to the state Attorney General’s Office.

The first cameras will be installed at the most dangerous intersection — Winchester and Riverdale.

A 29-year-old soldier from Fort Campbell, Ky., has been indicted on charges of illegal possession of an anti-tank rocket and four hand grenades.

Two brothers involved in a wild 2006 shooting barrage that endangered several police officers and damaged four squad cars have pleaded guilty to multiple attempted first-degree murder charges.