Kelli Cook
Reporter
Memphis, TN
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Kelli Cook is a reporter for Action News 5. You can watch her Monday through Friday at 10 p.m.
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A chance meeting with the head of teacher recruitment and engagement for Shelby County Schools (SCS) has changed the course for one former custodian.
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Healthcare, tourism, and restaurant workers are in high demand, and job fairs are happening all across the Mid-South.
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A vacant 85 acres off Elvis Presley Boulevard near Holmes could soon turn into one of the largest black-owned film studios in the country.
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As efforts are underway to ease traffic congestion on I-55, the mayor of West Memphis has a plan to help move things along.
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8-year-old Ella Claire Meskenas was given an award Monday and got a reunion she won’t soon forget.
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Several links in the transportation chain are feeling the strain of the I-40 bridge closure.
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WMC Action News 5 received a copy of the 2018 inspection report of the I-40 Hernando-Desoto Bridge where the inspector made numerous notes of corrosion and rust, but nothing about a crack in the support beam.
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Road work is planned for the I-55 bridge. Motorists should prepare for delays.
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Mayors Strickland and Mcclendon weigh in on bridge progress.
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A civil engineer and professor says based on his research, motorists might have been driving over this crack for days or maybe even weeks.
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Their sons, both 19-years-old at the time, were riding with then 20-year-old Jason Tyler Dancy when he flipped his car multiple times crashing into a tree.
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As the number of COVID-19 cases revs up across the country, so is the effort to fight the virus. Over the next two weeks, drugmakers Pfizer and Moderna could have their emergency application for a vaccine approved.
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Monday is the first night of strict new rules meant to stop the spread of Coronavirus in Shelby County.
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Kroger is now offering rapid antibody tests at all local Kroger pharmacies.
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Poll workers worked in teams of two, one Democrat and one Republican. They then had to do something that this nation has struggled with: agree on something.
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In the past 14 days, Fayette county added 257 cases. Tipton county increased its COVID-19 count by 262 and Dyer County saw a whopping 473 new cases.
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Governor Bill Lee announced Tuesday the state of emergency will continue through the end of Oct.
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Longtime Memphis Attorney Walter Bailey knows a thing or two about trying police officers.
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COVID-19 vaccine trials are happening all over the country, but they need more participants.
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Just two weeks into the school year, there have been over 400 reported COVID-19 cases at the University of Mississippi.
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Some Memphis store clerks and owners say customers have turned violent when asked to wear a mask.
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He’s been waiting for over a year and a half and, because he’s Black, he’ll likely have to wait even longer.
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Shelby County Health Director Alisa Haushalter addressed commissioners Monday about the record-breaking number of COVID-19 cases over the weekend -- 358 new cases were reported just on Saturday.
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In Crittenden County, Arkansas there have been 212 reported COVID-19 cases and 7 deaths, but with Southland Casino opening Monday more people may be crossing the bridge to try their luck again at the casino.
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The local health department isn’t the only place that knows if you’ve tested positive for coronavirus. Turns out Tennessee is also sharing that information with police departments and sheriff’s offices across the state.
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Things are now looking a lot different in emergency rooms across the Mid-South.
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As of Monday morning, more than 4,300 people had been tested for coronavirus in Shelby County. Only 379 of those tests came back positive for the virus.
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A major economic blow has hit the Mid-South -- casinos have been given just hours to close down and send guests home.
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The Memphis International Airport is under normal operations, but it has increased cleaning and sanitation of high contact areas.
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One thing that lawmakers from both sides of the aisle agree on is that no child should go hungry at school, but they disagree about how the debt should be paid.
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The medical community is hoping people with flu symptoms would actually stay at home and get the care they need online.
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New video has been released of the suspects in a road rage shooting that shut down Sam Cooper Boulevard. Now a local lawmaker is vowing to PASS a bill to toughen sentences for road rage shootings.
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A Tennessee Mom is making a desperate plea for her son battling a serious condition -- sickle cell anemia.
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A trip through a fast food drive-thru went terribly wrong for one customer when police said an employee pulled a gun on her.
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A Midtown couple who decided to renovate their more-than-a-century-old home last month came across a little piece of history.
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Thousands of runners are beginning to arrive in Memphis for this weekend’s St. Jude Marathon, including one family that has suffered a heartbreaking loss.
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A simple act of kindness helped change the life of a man who had been homeless.
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Officials at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital say Vincristine is in short supply.
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According to the police report, the victims told the robbers, “you might not want to do this.”
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An alleged extreme case of elderly abuse and neglect has landed one Memphis man behind bars.
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A national effort to change the 1-800 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number to a three-digit number is being dubbed the “911 for the Brain.”
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The legislation would put seat belts and on-board cameras in all newly purchased school buses.
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The Beale Street security fee is sticking around for a few more weeks.
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A stolen car crashed into a North Memphis home Tuesday night while a woman was fast asleep inside.
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After a grand jury indicted a man in the shooting of a Memphis peace activist, the victim’s boyfriend says they got the right man but with the wrong charge.
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The heat may have proved deadly for a woman’s dog in Arlington.
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Memphis police need help tracking down two brazen suspects who made a strange request during a robbery.
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The creator of the "Memphis" sign on Mud Island is looking to set a new record.
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An Arkansas police officer is off the job after cell phone video backs up complaints of excessive force.