Memphis News

The Cozymel's Mexican Grill building at 6450 Poplar Ave. is being torn down, clearing a prime East Memphis retail site in the shadow of International Paper's office towers.

Rebecca Miller and her son are anything but strangers to Action News 5. Our station helped the family find a news home after a Christmas Day tragedy in 2012.

A scam that has generated consumer complaints in as many as 15 states is headquartered inside a $1/2 million home in Southeast Memphis.

Bottled water and diapers are among the biggest need for a Mid-South church headed to Oklahoma.

The City of Memphis is saying "goodbye and good riddance" to blight. A derelict apartment complex, formerly called Park Place Apartments, sat vacant for four years breeding crime.

The Uptown waterfront along the Wolf River Harbor the area of the rejuvenated Uptown neighborhood that has for the most part been left out of the revitalization could soon become a bustling waterfront village, according to a recently released master plan for the area.

Several Mid-South business and charity organizations are calling for volunteers and donations to help relief efforts around Oklahoma City after the area was devastated by a massive tornado Monday.

The owner of the automobile service garage at 615 W. Poplar Ave . in Collierville has filed a $418,000 loan on the property.

Officials are on the scene of a two vehicle crash on Interstate 40 eastbound and Austin Peay Highway.

The Tennessee comptroller is warning the City of Memphis to straighten out its money mess.

B. B. Cunningham Jr. was lead singer of the Memphis rock band the Hombres. The band scored a hit for 13 weeks in 1967 with the song "Let It Out ." The late Memphis musician B.B. Cunningham will be recognized with a place on the Beale Street Brass Note Walk of Fame, with a ceremony set for May 29 at 6 p.m. inside the recently opened Jerry Lee Lewis' ... (more)

Breakaway Running is the latest addition to Overton Square, as the speciality running store has signed a 2,346-square-foot lease at 2109 Madison Ave.

Memphis City Council member Lee Harris will propose Tuesday, May 21, exempting Memphis auto owners for two years from required auto emissions inspections.

Memphis police are investigating a shooting that left two injured and two dead Sunday night.

Two people are dead and two others are wounded after a shooting at 2323 Ketchum Road, according to police.Three victims were transported to The MED by ambulance, and one other by private vehicle.Two Two people are dead and two others are wounded after a shooting at 2323 Ketchum Road, according to police.Three victims were transported to The MED by ... (more)

The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development has tapped Gwyn Fisher to be the Greater Memphis regional director of economic and community development.

1973: On the front page of The Daily News, a study by Memphis State University's Bureau of Business and Economic Research concluded Shelby County would not have a majority African-American population for the next 50 years, as it did from 1880 to 1910.

Volunteer Mid-South has many opportunities. If you've never volunteered through Volunteer Mid-South, register online at volunteermidsouth.org. Click on the "Become a Member" tab.

A Mid-South family pet was taken outside of a Memphis Home Depot Store. There are new leads in the case, but still no arrests.

A 35-year-old man who told jurors in November that he'd been in trouble since he was 9 was sentenced to 76 years in prison Friday for felony convictions stemming from a 2006 crime spree that involved three carjackings at gunpoint and several assaults on federal officers.