The Early Word: Remembering Tyre Nichols, Barbara Cooper and Harvest Church plane crash victims
A second suspect has been arrested in Barshay Wilson’s slaying, changes are coming to Downtown PILOTs and Memphis home sales took a dip last year.
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January 2023
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New Carpenter Art Garden leader has hope for healing
Jazmin Miller is on course to help heal trauma on several levels, including the complicated feelings she says many Black people have with agriculture as an institution.
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Arsenic poisons hopes for Crosstown Mound project
“We have reached out countless times. I’ve talked to city council people. I’ve talked to lots of people. We’ve just gotten nowhere.”
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Legislative session begins without Barbara Cooper, but Clarion cook will never forget
The late state Rep. Barbara Cooper always stayed at the same hotel when she was in Nashville. She grew close to one worker, who saw her as a mother figure and knew exactly what she wanted for breakfast and dinner.
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Inked: Memphis home sales dipped in 2022
This week’s Inked covers 2022 real estate figures, Q4 2022 industrial real estate reports and answers reader questions on the Grand Hyatt.
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Love it, Like it or Hate it: Reviewing Memphis’ win over Temple
There are limited opportunities left for quality wins on Memphis’ schedule. And if it plays anywhere close to the level at which it played versus Temple, it’ll be difficult to take care of business against even mediocre AAC foes.
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Van with AI, laser imaging to scan Memphis streets for potholes
The effort will comprehensively map the condition of all 6,714 lane miles of Memphis’ streets.
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Cancer-causing chemical endangering Memphis due to EPA’s inaction, lawsuit alleges
The EPA included Memphis’ Sterilization Services of Tennessee on a list of high-risk facilities in August, but a pending lawsuit says the agency is moving too slowly; the Memphis City Council is also considering what actions it can take.
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The Early Word: Crosstown Mound plans are tainted; Grizz get revenge
Tyre Nichols’ loved ones demand justice, the city deploys A.I. to find potholes and we look at one transgender homicide victim’s cold case.
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The Early Word: RIP, Lisa Marie; plus, Fred Smith finances film on first Black aviator
Grizzlies give back for MLK Day, Collierville High students learn to fly and a Memphis Police officer has thoughts on “no chase” policy.
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Martin: Tigers lean on Davis to keep season alive, like Hardaway planned
Just days after allowing a game-tying 3-pointer at the end of regulation against UCF, the Memphis Tigers found themselves in the same exact predicament against Temple. Luckily, they have Kendric Davis to rely on.
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Tennessee foster children face the most ‘instability’ in the nation, report finds
About a third of Tennessee foster children are placed in three or more homes in their first year in state custody, according to a Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth report, putting children at greater risk of compounding trauma.
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Animal lovers hopeful about proposed changes to city ordinances
Amendments to animal welfare laws could include mandatory microchipping for pets, and modification to policies about dogs “running at large,” which animal welfare organizations see as key to stopping overpopulation and neglect.
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‘She deserves respect.’ For transgender victims, closure can lie further out of reach
Gender issues complicate the reporting of cold cases for transgender victims, but a Shelby County initiative offers hope to families.
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Recipe for a backlog: 10,557 adult arrests in 2022, and 35 criminal court trials
While hundreds of inmates sat in jail for more than 500 days awaiting their day in court, and victims longed for closure, the Shelby County Criminal Court held a total of 35 trials in 2022.
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What to look for when Memphis Tigers play against Temple Owls
The Tigers hit the road to take on Temple in Philadelphia at 2 p.m. Sunday, just four days after falling to UCF 107-104 in double overtime on Wednesday.
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Calkins: LIV golfers have everything money can buy. Except Memphis.
Remember when it was a struggle to get the best golfers in the world to come to Memphis? Now it requires a federal judge to keep them out of here.
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Memphis’ collapse to UCF offers Tigers a reality check
With only four chances remaining for the Tigers to grab Quad 1 or 2 wins, they’ve learned quickly that nothing they set out to do will come easily.
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Conaway: This is our time. But we have to realize it.
Memphis is the heart of where we all live, and the reason it has a beat. That beat belongs to all of us, and all of us bear some responsibility for its health.
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Grizzlies Insider: Respect runs deep between Gregg Popovich and Taylor Jenkins
“You have a h--- of a team,” Popovich said Monday about Memphis. “Enjoy it.”
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Rossville girls basketball aiming for a higher profile
A talented trio of transfers have helped the Fayette County school to 18 straight victories.
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Methodist, BlueCross BlueShield still at odds
“The insurance company is really going to get out-flanked, from a PR standpoint, by the Methodist system. Who wants to see kids not get the health care they deserve?” Dr. John Rodney said.
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Memphis isn’t alone in water challenges, as nation struggles to repair aging systems
An industry group estimates there are 250,000 to 300,000 water main breaks in the U.S. every year — generating an estimated loss of 6 billion gallons of treated drinking water across the country.
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The Early Word: Black holes, blue trees and the BlueCross/Methodist impasse
Memphis isn’t alone in water problems, White Station students take the wheel on driver’s ed and two local chefs are making moves.
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Mississippi lawmaker’s bill takes on residency fraud in DeSoto County schools
A state senator from DeSoto County wants to put a penalty in the law that addresses people who put a false address on file to attend schools in the North Mississippi county.
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