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Halloween safety tips for big and little kids

It looks like the Monday evening weather will cooperate for trick-or-treaters young and old. 

We'll have just a few clouds with temperatures mostly in the mid and upper 50's after dinner time.

The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention have compiled a comprehensive list of safety tips here, aimed at keeping everyone safe during the door-to-door frivolity.  Whether you're heading out in costume or will be handing out treats at the front door, the list has something for everyone.

Olive Branch man gunned down during argument

(WMC-TV) – A 26-year-old man was shot to death Friday night in Olive Branch, investigators said.

Rodrick Lydell Akins was found just before Midnight laying in the driveway a home in the 10500 block of Lafayette Drive, suffering from a gunshot wound.

Surveillance cameras to monitor Olive Branch park

(WMC-TV) - An Olive Branch community park that lost thousands of dollars in playground equipment to vandalism will soon be under constant watch by a surveillance camera.

Magnolia Park, located near Oak Leaf and Alexander Roads in Olive Branch, is one of the oldest in the city. Now, this small community park, where vandals burned playground equipment during the Christmas Holiday in 2008, will be getting a surveillance camera with a motion detector.

The Mid-South's most common senior scams

The Mid-South's most common senior scams

Identity theft is still considered the most prevalent white-collar crime in America. It also reigns as the leading scam in the Mid-South.

As baby-boomers get older, identity theft will only flex its muscles even more on the elderly. It leads my list of the most common scams targeting seniors in the Mid-South:

* ID THEFT.  These are the methods thieves are most commonly using to either steal seniors' financial identities or get into their accounts:

Olive Branch woman pleads guilty to embezzling thousands

(WMC-TV) - An Olive Branch woman pled guilty this week to forging the signature of her boss as she embezzled more than $150,000.

Jennifer George-Hamilton, 32, pled guilty to forging the signature of Memphis attorney Eulyse M. Smith, on an account maintained by Smith's business at Regions Bank.

George-Hamilton was employed by Smith as a secretary and bookkeeper at his law practice until his death in April.

Mystery shopping scam costs Memphis woman $1,000

Who wouldn't want to get paid to go shopping or have a nice meal at a restaurant? You’ve seen the ads for "mystery shoppers" and "secret shoppers" that promise easy money, free meals and merchandise. One Memphis woman has learned the hard way that some offers that sound too good to be true often are just that.

Shefora Ollis-White was looking for mystery shopping opportunities online. It sounded like something she would enjoy – getting paid to shop and dine out and evaluate the service you received. So when she got a letter in the mail from EGroup Surveys in Pleasanton, CA, she thought she had found the perfect opportunity.

The letter said that she was being offered “an opportunity to participate in a survey by being a service evaluator.” In short, she would get paid to dine and shop. Along with the letter was a check for $1,300. The instructions in the letter told her to call to validate the funds before depositing them in her bank account.

Memphis Burglary Arrests Drop in One Week

Memphis Burglary Arrests Drop in One Week

Memphis police have some good news to report when it comes to burglaries.

In just one week, burglaries of homes in the Raleigh Station precinct DROPPED 45% this week (July 11th) compared to last week (July 4th).

In that same week, business burglaries dropped 75%.

Officers also made nine arrests to solve eleven cases.