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The owner of three pit bulls says his dogs aren't vicious even though they mauled a 62-year-old woman and her dog during a stroll through their Cordova neighborhood Thursday morning.

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Mayor A C Wharton is forming a new task force to address recent problems at the Memphis Animal Shelter.

A 2-year-old boy critically burned in a South Memphis house fire died Monday, exactly one week after police say his mother left the boy and his brother home alone.

Shelby County sheriff's deputies are executing a search warrant this morning as part of an investigation into alleged animal cruelty at the Memphis Animal Shelter.

To combat illegal tire dumping, the Shelby County Commission passed an ordinance Monday that puts new restrictions on tire businesses and pays people $1 for each discarded tire they turn in.

A C Wharton is sworn in as Memphis Mayor; Joyce Avery has become acting Shelby County Mayor.

Memphis Mayor-elect A C Wharton will be sworn in Monday. City council members said they expect a better relationship between the incoming mayor and the council, with Wharton bringing years of experience from the county side of government to a relatively new city council.

Circumstances surrounding the fire in South Memphis that killed one child and left another in critical condition have led to a huge public outcry.

The Regional Medical Center at Memphis says it may have to close its emergency room if it doesn't get $32 million in additional funding by early next year.

The Suntrust Bank at Highway 64 and Fletcher Trace was robbed Thursday, October 22, 2009.

The Regional Medical Center at Memphis says it may have to close its emergency room if it doesn't get $32 million in additional funding by early next year.

The Shelby County District Attorney General's office has declined to file immediate charges in the case of a fire that left one young boy dead and another critically injured after they were left alone in a duplex.

Shelby County children are now getting vaccinated against the swine flu virus. Tuesday, October 20, 2009, the Memphis and Shelby County Health Department began offering free injections for children between six months and four years of age.

For Patrick and Kari Miller, the ties between the economy and the birth rate apply to their own lives.

Unusually cool summer weather across Tennessee is likely the largest factor in less West Nile virus being found, according to a state health expert.

For every 1,000 babies born alive in Shelby County, 13 will die before their first birthday, says Theresa Chapman, director of the Fetal and Infant-Mortality Review program.

A 5-year-old child slept just feet away from the spare bedroom where his father made methamphetamine, Shelby County Sheriff's officials said today.

Thursday morning, October 15, 2009, the Memphis Organized Crime Unit went to an apartment in the " Exchange Building " in downtown Memphis .

Shelby County school board chairman David Pickler and Millington Central High School principal Ted Horrell look at damage from a leaky roof in one of the school's science labs during a tour Wednesday.

Tipton County Sheriff's deputies say they have arrested the man responsible for the stolen property found at a meth house near Millington.

Frank Perry delivers voting machines Tuesday to the polling site at Trinity United Methodist Church on Galloway.

David Mansfield will keep his post as White Station High School principal while his case moves through court.

An employee at Le Bonheur Childrena TMs Medical center is one of the first to receive the Swine Flu a ' H1N1 a ' vaccine.

Embattled Memphis City Attorney Elbert Jefferson still has a job with the city, despite what the District Attorney's office announced last week.

The Memphis and Shelby County Health Department received its first shipment of the H1N1 flu vaccine.

Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton hasn't won the Oct. 15 special election for Memphis mayor, but there is already behind-the-scenes politicking about who would fill the county mayor's office on an interim basis if he leaves.

The Shelby County Commission is likely to ask the Tennessee Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling last week that blocked the commission's politically charged decision to appoint a second juvenile court judge.

Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton Jr. has come up with 10 appointees to a metro charter commission and has sent the names to the Shelby County Commission for approval.

The following is a news release issued by the Shelby County District Attorneya TMs Office: CONVICTED RAPIST PLEADS GUILTY TO 2000 MURDER OF NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY, RAPE OF HIS TEEN SISTER A POSITIVE DNA MATCH AFTER AN UNRELATED RAPE CONVICTION LED TO MELVIN GOODMANa TMS INDICTMENT MEMPHIS, TN a ' Shelby County District Attorney Bill Gibbons announced ...

A 24-year-old man with a suspended driver's license faces a charge of vehicular homicide in connection with a pedestrian's death early Sunday.

" The Shelby County D.A. has approved criminal charges to be filed against the principal and assistant principal of White Station High School for failing to report an assault of a student.

A pregnant woman was shot and killed in her home Friday night, September 25, 2009.

DRESDEN - A Gleason man charged with rape and kidnapping in an Aug. 30 home invasion in Martin waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday afternoon, binding the case to the grand jury.