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: Jun. 9, 2022 at 10:20 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
Chandra Johnson shared pictures of her child in his hospital bed. Michael Jones is so small, just three months old, hospitalized since May 28 when the accident happened.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2022 at 9:51 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
Now, there’s a new concern with House Bill 0233.
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: Feb. 17, 2022 at 10:36 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
More than a dozen incidents were reported. Thursday, MLGW and the Memphis Police Department confirmed crooks are at it again.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2021 at 9:38 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
Neighbors say teenage girls playing outside discovered the child on the ground, wearing only a piece of cloth around his bottom.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2021 at 9:50 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
Being blackmailed for money because of your browsing habits is called sextortion.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2021 at 9:57 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
Next time the lights go out in Memphis and Shelby County, armed robbers may be to blame.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2021 at 9:52 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
Tennessee parents who don’t want their children to mask up in the classroom can opt out of mask mandates.
Updated: May. 25, 2021 at 10:04 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
Exactly two weeks after authorities shut down the I-40 bridge for emergency repairs, phase one of the repair process is done.
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: May. 14, 2021 at 10:09 PM CDT
|By Joyce Peterson
When transportation officials said they didn’t know when that bridge fracture happened, a couple of curious citizens started looking through their photo albums.
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: Nov. 6, 2020 at 10:29 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
Oprah’s list of “Favorite Things for 2020” officially dropped Friday, and a designer chocolate made in Memphis made the list.
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: Dec. 22, 2019 at 10:19 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
A Rhodes College student is one of the victims killed in a fight outside a Nashville bar over the weekend.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2019 at 4:52 AM CST
|By Joyce Peterson
The battle over Memphis’ confederate statues is officially over. The monuments are now in the possession of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
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