MEMPHIS (AP) - After three decades as a state senator, John Ford is changing roles - from legislative wheeler-dealer to prison inmate. Ford, 65, was sentenced Tuesday to 5 1/2 years in federal prison for taking $55,000 in bribes during a federal corruption investigation that shook the Tennessee General ...
A 24-game winning streak hasn't convinced everyone that Memphis is a legitimate national championship contender. After all, the second-seeded Tigers didn't get much of challenge from their Conference USA rivals, none of which made the NCAA tournament. Counting North Texas and Nevada, the two teams Memphis ...
MEMPHIS - A University of Alabama football booster died when he hit his head in an accidental fall at home, rather than being slain as first thought, Memphis police said Thursday. Police initially described the death of 65-year-old Logan Young as a bloody slaying after a fierce struggle but quit calling ...
MEMPHIS -- An Alabama booster convicted of bribing a high school coach to get a top recruit for the Crimson Tide was killed in his home after a fierce, bloody struggle, police said Tuesday. Police and his defense attorney confirmed the death of Logan Young, 65, but did not say how he was killed. Investigators ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said his city will never be totally safe from hurricanes, no matter how much its levees are strengthened, but he urged Hurricane Katrina evacuees Wednesday night to come home anyway. Nagin spoke to a crowd of more than 700 at Mississippi Boulevard Christian ...
MEMPHIS - Jerry West signed a two-year contract extension Monday, agreeing to remain through 2008 as president of the Memphis Grizzlies. West came out of retirement three years ago to join the Grizzlies after spending almost four decades with the Los Angeles Lakers as player, coach and executive. He ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) A federal grand jury charged the chairman of the Shelby County Commission with extortion and bribery Tuesday as part of the expanding Tennessee Waltz corruption investigation. Michael Hooks Sr. is the first local government official indicted in the investigation that has led to similar ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The trial of a former medical examiner accused of staging a bizarre bomb attack on himself ended Tuesday with the jury unable to reach a verdict. U.S. District Judge Bernice Donald declared a mistrial after the jury spent almost three days deliberating the fate of Dr. O.C. Smith, ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Coaches and college boosters who buy or sell student athletes should know now they can face federal prosecution, the U.S. attorney whose office got a conviction in an Alabama recruiting scandal said Thursday. "When recruiting violations rise to the level that they constitute criminal ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A former high school coach told a federal jury Wednesday that he got offers of money, a job and free law school for his wife before he accepted a $150,000 payoff to steer his best player to sign with Alabama. Lynn Lang, the former head coach at Trezevant High School, testified ...
