A 67-year-old man has been charged with animal cruelty after telling deputies he shot his neighbor’s puppy with a BB gun.

The victim told Samuel Alexander to leave after spotting him outside his home in the 6400 block of Benjestwon Road Sunday evening, according to court records. But before he left, Alexander shot the man’s Pyrenees/German Shepherd mix three times with a BB gun.

(WMC-TV) - Millington Mayor Richard Hodges is still running the city and still in charge of meetings like one called Wednesday night for the board of aldermen.

"Rumor has it that this meeting was called for me to announce my resignation," said Hodges during the meeting.

The meeting was actually called to address some fairly mundane matters, but it allowed the mayor an opportunity to try and put the resignation rumor to rest.

"My friends, this is simply not true," said Hodges.  "Don't believe every rumor you hear," he added.

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.