Joyce Peterson
Anchor/Reporter
Memphis, TN
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Joyce Peterson is an anchor/reporter at Action News 5.
Joyce is a second-generation TV journalist and has reported the news in the Mid-South for more than 25 years.
She's also married to your favorite weather guy, Action News 5 Chief Meteorologist Ron Childers.
Weekdays you'll find Joyce anchoring our 3:30 and 4 p.m. newscasts. Then she switches gears and hits the street to report at 10 p.m.
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A bill being pushed through the Tennessee legislature has no age requirements for marriage
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A Mid-South sleep expert says switching to permanent daylight saving time could have a detrimental impact on our health. The Senate this week overwhelmingly passed a bill that would make d.s.t. the norm in the U.S.
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At the Starbucks on Poplar near Highland, all 20 employees have agreed to unionize.
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A manhunt is underway right now for 23-year-old Justin Johnson of Memphis.
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Not a single piece of evidence ever connected the West Memphis Three, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, to the 1993 murders of three 8-year-old boys.
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20-year-old Gracie Jeppsen has been getting treatment at St. Jude since April. Her brain cancer diagnosis is a difficult one, but she’s fighting with all her strength with the love of her life by her side.
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The City of Memphis said it has to go, but one East Memphis neighborhood is ready to fight for its speed bump.
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Scientists at St. Jude may have figured out how COVID-19 kills, and more importantly, how to stop it.
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At age 77, with congestive heart failure, COVID-19 became Army veteran Eugene Perkin’s toughest battle.
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A former Memphis homicide detective with a reputation for outsmarting the bad guys is the latest victim of COVID-19 in the community.
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He was an adventurer who delivered babies. She was a light and an inspiration to everyone.
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Robert Reed is the much-loved custodian at Farmington Elementary in Germantown. He loves his job so much, he’s willing to walk miles, literally, to get to work. His colleagues decided it was time to give Robert a lift.
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Their legal action comes after two weeks of riots that left 5 inmates dead inside state prisons, including three deaths at Parchman.
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A former Memphis gang member who turned his life around decades ago to mentor at-risk children wound up losing his own life in a gun battle.
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The first openly gay teenager was crowned White Station High School Homecoming Royalty last month, grabbing headlines across the country.
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A spokesperson with the Clarksdale Police Department says the shooting happened at MLK and Boliver and involved someone with the Coahoma County Sheriff’s Office.