
Tyre Nichols death spurs Justice Department police review
Memphis plans to release on Wednesday about 20 hours of video and audio related to the arrest of the 29-year-old motorist who died January 10, three days after his violent arrest

Memphis plans to release on Wednesday about 20 hours of video and audio related to the arrest of the 29-year-old motorist who died January 10, three days after his violent arrest

Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announced the withdrawal of the law, which would have overhauled how the nation’s capital prosecutes and punishes crime

More than 4.6 million people are disenfranchised in the United States because of felony convictions, according to the Sentencing Project

According to the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, 54 of the 89 tolling facilities that opened in the US in the past decade were for price-managed lanes

Gershun Freeman, 33, had “psychosis and cardiovascular disease and died of a heart attack while being restrained,” the Shelby County sheriff said

The system will threaten the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys with tornadoes as they move toward New England

As clinics have been forced to shutter in Republican-dominant states with strict abortion bans, some have relocated to cities just over the border, in states with more liberal laws

In some states, Republicans are considering exemptions to sweeping bans or looking at ways to prevent abortions besides trying to roll back the number of weeks during which the procedure is allowed

The homeless and those without electricity were at special risk from the cold, the weather service said

So far this year, at least 150 bills targeting transgender people have been introduced across the US, which is the highest in a single year, according to the Human Rights Campaign

Democrats elevated the state to the top of their presidential primary calendar, leapfrogging Iowa and New Hampshire

The governor in November directed the state prison system to undertake a “top-to-bottom” review of death penalty procedures

More than 192,000 customers in Michigan and nearly 89,000 in Illinois were without electricity Wednesday evening

With the exception of pandemic-disrupted 2020, the number of weapons intercepted at airport checkpoints has climbed every year since 2010

The gunman has been apprehended and is in custody, according to local police

The former officers face charges of second degree murder. A judge asked for everyone’s “continued patience” and “continued civility”

The members of the Tennessee National Guard were killed during a flight-training mission

Harm reduction advocates call for increasing availability of medication-assisted treatment and measures to prevent fatal overdoses – not ‘strong penalties’ to crack down on traffickers

‘We should not delay. And we will not be denied,’ Kamala Harris said to applause in Memphis, Tennessee. ‘It is non-negotiable’

The young Black man died in Memphis, three days after being beaten by five police officers – all of them African-American – with the violent arrest being caught on video. The ambulance took 22 minutes to arrive on the scene

The young father was brutally beaten by five Memphis police officers in an encounter that is recorded by police body cameras

The police chief has called the actions of the officers involved in the violent arrest ‘heinous, reckless and inhumane’

The revelation comes on the heels of an independent report that found the state has never fully tested drugs for its executions since rewriting its lethal injection protocol in 2018

Two years after her divorce from Liam Hemsworth, the Tennessee singer has surprised fans with a new song that celebrates independence and pursuing one’s own path to happiness

Illinois and Tennessee voters face radically different choices when it comes to worker rights