Lawrence Buser

• Contractor gets 8 months prison in illegal dumping case Updated 05/25/2012 at 12:10 a.m.

  The owner of an excavation company convicted last month of illegally dumping tons of construction rubbish in Southwest Memphis was sentenced Thursday to eight months in prison and was ordered to make restitution of more than $1.5 million to property ...

• Former Memphis businessman faces Tennessee tax charges Published 05/24/2012 at 11:30 a.m.

  A former Memphis businessman now living in North Carolina has been arrested and charged with tax evasion, authorities said today.

• Southaven embezzler says sentence — and TV ban — too harsh Updated 05/24/2012 at 12:09 a.m.

  A Southaven man who pleaded guilty to his role in a $700,000 bogus check scam says his three-year prison sentence is too harsh and will not be a deterrent to other white collar criminals.

• Former basketball standout Moy will serve no jail time on sex offender violation Published 05/23/2012 at 2:23 p.m.

  Former Memphis high school basketball star Taurean Moy will not have to do 90 days in jail for a sex offender registry violation after all, but he remains in jail on unrelated domestic assault charges.

• Former Memphis prep basketball star, 'T-Head,' gets 90 days for sex offender violation Published 05/21/2012 at 5:48 p.m.

  A Memphis high school basketball legend who once scored 83 points in a single game was sentenced to 90 days in prison today in Criminal Court for failing to register as a sex offender.

• Memphis man who shot wife in head convicted of voluntary manslaughter Updated 05/19/2012 at 12:09 a.m.

  A Memphis man charged with first-degree murder for shooting his wife in the head two years ago was convicted this afternoon of a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter.

• Ex-Memphis football star Xavier Crawford found guilty of rape, robbery Updated 05/17/2012 at 11:05 p.m.

  A jury this afternoon convicted former Memphis football star Xavier Crawford of raping and robbing a 67-year-old woman three years ago in the driveway of her Raleigh home.

• Jury asked to decide if wife’s killing was assassination or accident Updated 05/17/2012 at 11:12 p.m.

  An Orange Mound woman killed two years ago was either “assassinated” by her husband or was the victim of “a horrible, horrible accident,” a jury was told today

• Jury to get rape, robbery case involving former Memphis football star Xavier Crawford Published 05/17/2012 at 12:07 p.m.

  A jury is scheduled to being deliberations this afternoon in the rape and robbery case against former Memphis football star Xavier Crawford.

• Defense says suspect in Henning postal killings has mental issues that could bar death penalty Updated 05/16/2012 at 10:34 p.m.

  A West Tennessee man charged with killing two postal workers in 2010 in Henning may be mentally retarded, his defense attorneys said Wednesday, which would block federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty.

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