President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as Treasury Secretary in a time of intense economic turmoil as he rounds out the upper echelon of his Cabinet, a senior Democratic official familiar with the deliberations said.

A gang member was convicted of first-degree murder this morning for the drug-related shooting death of a front-seat passenger in a car in which he was riding.

A store clerk was shot to death during a robbery attempt this morning in South Memphis.