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• Memphis man convicted of raping child Published 05/20/2013 at 2:43 p.m.

  A 25-year-old man has been convicted of raping and abusing his teenage cousin multiple times over a five-year period, beginning when the cousin was less than 13 years old.

• Memphis teens convicted in robbery, murder Published 05/17/2013 at 6:59 p.m.

  Two teenagers were convicted Friday of robbing and killing a man whose relatives then tracked them down and identified them for police.

• Fugitive gets 76 years for carjackings and assaults on Memphis officers Updated 05/18/2013 at 12:40 a.m.

  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 ...

• Beale Street club closed as public nuisance for alleged drugs and violence Updated 05/16/2013 at 8:52 p.m.

  As curious tourists looked on and snapped photos, state and local law-enforcement officers ended the business day early for Club 152.

• Supreme Court upholds Memphis murder despite alternate juror's note Published 05/16/2013 at 3:02 p.m.

  After a Criminal Court found a Memphis man guilty of stabbing his girlfriend 27 times and killing her, the jury foreman told the judge that an alternate juror had left a note in their hotel room that read, “Jackie and ...

• Teens say gang leader ordered them to carry out fatal Memphis robbery Published 05/15/2013 at 5:54 p.m.

  Two teenagers on trial for a 2011 robbery and murder near Downtown told police they feared a gang leader who ordered them to do the crimes and then later feared the victim’s relatives who were armed and searching for them.

• Citizens' arrest helps put two men on trial in 2011 Memphis murder Published 05/14/2013 at 5:46 p.m.

  When Ronald Ellington was shot to death two years ago outside the Phillips Sundry where he was a cook, his relatives did more than just grieve for him.

• Ringleader in Memphis teacher test-taking scandal sentenced to 7 years in prison Updated 05/13/2013 at 6:13 p.m.

  When he began taking money from teachers who wanted stand-ins to take their certification tests, Clarence Mumford would tell colleagues “business is booming.”

• Former Memphis policeman indicted in fatal crash Updated 05/10/2013 at 9:21 p.m.

  A former Memphis police officer involved in an on-duty crash last August that killed two Mississippi women has been indicted on criminal charges.

• Memphis squatter wants to represent herself in court; judge calls her legal view "gibberish" Published 05/10/2013 at 2:55 p.m.

  A squatter, also facing aggravated assault charges, said Friday she wants to represent herself as a Moorish National citizen under international law, leaving a judge to wonder aloud if she is operating “in a different universe.”

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