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.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2023 at 3:44 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
He was not supposed to be released on his own recognizance.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2022 at 10:14 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
The childhood friend of an Ole Miss student killed in a hit-and-run Sunday morning described him as being loyal and kind.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 11:20 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
The man charged with shooting and killing Millington High sophomore Haley Reedy is out of jail less than 24 hours after surrendering to the authorities.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2022 at 11:08 AM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant and Joyce Peterson
The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office wants the teen accused of killing a pastor to be tried as an adult.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 9:51 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
A bill being pushed through the Tennessee legislature has no age requirements for marriage
Updated: Mar. 18, 2022 at 9:55 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
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.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2022 at 10:17 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
At the Starbucks on Poplar near Highland, all 20 employees have agreed to unionize.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2022 at 10:28 AM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
A manhunt is underway right now for 23-year-old Justin Johnson of Memphis.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2021 at 9:56 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
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.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2021 at 10:41 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
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.
Updated: May. 20, 2021 at 9:52 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
The City of Memphis said it has to go, but one East Memphis neighborhood is ready to fight for its speed bump.
Updated: Nov. 19, 2020 at 10:22 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
Scientists at St. Jude may have figured out how COVID-19 kills, and more importantly, how to stop it.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 10:48 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
At age 77, with congestive heart failure, COVID-19 became Army veteran Eugene Perkin’s toughest battle.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2020 at 10:38 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
A former Memphis homicide detective with a reputation for outsmarting the bad guys is the latest victim of COVID-19 in the community.
Updated: Apr. 24, 2020 at 10:36 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
He was an adventurer who delivered babies. She was a light and an inspiration to everyone.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2020 at 10:01 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
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.
Updated: Jan. 14, 2020 at 11:01 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
Their legal action comes after two weeks of riots that left 5 inmates dead inside state prisons, including three deaths at Parchman.
Updated: Dec. 11, 2019 at 11:13 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
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.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2019 at 9:42 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
The first openly gay teenager was crowned White Station High School Homecoming Royalty last month, grabbing headlines across the country.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2019 at 6:29 PM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff and Joyce Peterson
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.
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