Tamaracina Birdse of Memphis is due in federal court on Wednesday to be sentenced after scamming Mid-Southerners through a tax scheme.

Birdse stole people's personal identity, then falsely filed taxes in their name. She pocketed more than $1 million, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Birdse used easy-access

Three city of Southaven leaders  gave sworn statements that Mayor Greg Davis told them he was going to hide money from his wife while they were going through a bitter divorce.
 
But there is a problem with those sworn affidavits.

According to legal experts FOX13 News talked to, one side will say it was a simple

Scott Porter, a 42-year-old convicted felon, is being held on $3 million bond and charged with second degree murder in the August homicide inside a Downtown Memphis high-rise.

Memphis police say Porter beat Connie Cox, 47, to death Aug. 14 in a stairwell inside the Renaissance Apartments. Ms. Cox died from blunt