Katie Riordan
ReporterKatie is a freelance contributor to WKNO. She's always eager to hear your story ideas. You can email her at kriordan@wkno.org
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Last August, when the Taliban re-took Afghanistan after years of U.S. occupation, many former service members worked behind the scenes to help their former Afghan allies and interpreters flee the country. For one family, it's been a long road to freedom. -
Lawmakers could reverse a law that requires people who do not disclose HIV-positive status to their sexual partners to become registered sex offenders.
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Charles Hall, granted executive clemency by Gov. Bill Lee, has been approved for release by Parole Board.
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In the often busy property room at the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville—two hours north of Memphis—the prison stores and distributes items inmates need such as shirts, pants, socks and blankets.
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A man who—up until a few months ago—was facing state execution, could now seek parole within the decade after a Shelby County judge delivered a crucial ruling in his favor.
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On a recent weekend, Carlin Bratcher was back in the pilot seat of a single engine Cessna 172, practicing turns and softening her landings at the Olive Branch Airport in north Mississippi.
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A Tennessee man who faced execution appeared in court Tuesday for the first time since the state agreed that his intellectual disability made him ineligible for a death sentence.
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A long-time legal battle over ownership of interstate groundwater concluded Monday, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the City of Memphis.
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Young Dolph, a Memphis-made rapper who achieved national recognition, was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon while visiting a South Memphis bakery.
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For more than a decade, Mississippi has waged a legal dispute over groundwater pumped from wells surrounding the city of Memphis. Mississippi says the water is theirs, and they’ve asked the Supreme Court to let them collect $615 million in compensation for it.
