A Memphis dance coach allegedly had sex with his underage student and exposed him to HIV. Police arrested the suspect who faces multiple charges.

Another shooting involving police officers occurred on Wednesday afternoon in Memphis, this one gaining national attention after the victim’s lifeless body was left in the street for several hours. Johnathan Bratcher and a friend were traveling in a Chevy Impala when two police officers — one White, one Black — pulled them over for an unknown traffic […]

Tontrevion Campbell and his mother were victims of a burglary over Thanksgiving weekend. While the family attended church on Sunday, many of the mother's items were taken, in addition to Tontrevion's hand-me-down Xbox console and every game he owned.

A college student almost died last week when his e-cigarette blew up in his face, leaving him with severe burns and a broken neck.

The race relations topic brought a dark cloud over a 10-year-old’s birthday party in Tennessee last week, when a friend of another race wrote a letter explaining…

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Al Bell Co-Owner of Stax Records, Frayser Boy and Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell joined Roland Martin Wednesday on “NewsOne Now” to discuss the new documentary “Take Me…

A Bartlett, Tenn., cemetery has been shut down and its owner, Jemar Lambert (pictured), has been arrested and charged with corpse abuse and theft. The…

  The Church of God in Christ could be bringing a convention back to Memphis next year, but it isn’t the church’s annual convocation that…

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  Mom nearly beats child’s football coach to death over molestation allegations Lakeshia Richmond A Tennessee mother faces criminal charges after she nearly beat a kids’ football coach to death with a baseball bat over claims he molested her sons. Lakeshia Richmond, 27, of Memphis, admitted she took the law into her own hands when her boys, aged 8 […]

MEMPHIS-Memphis talk radio host Thaddeus Matthews had African American GOP candidate for Congress, Charlotte Bergmann on his show last week. Mathews bashed Bergmann as a “token negro” and refused to shake her hand, saying that he was scared her “whiteness” would rub off on him. Matthews also claimed that Bergmann had no interest in the […]

MEMPHIS — A 19-year-old man was arrested and charged with threatening a school official after police claimed he made death threats against students and teachers at a high school he previously attended. Jamal Smith was arrested at Millington High School. The school was placed on lockdown after Smith posted the death threats on Facebook. See […]

A 37-year-old Memphis, Tenn. man is in police custody after he allegedly sexually assaulted his 57-year-old mother. According to court documents, the suspect asked his mother for help changing a lightbulb, but instead he grabbed his mother from behind and raped her. Friends who didn’t want to  talk on camera said the victim in this […]