There are 8 article(s) tagged Anthony Buckner:

• March 2026

  • Reality check? Dropping crime numbers meet the first spring weekend on Beale Street

    A violent Friday night Downtown stokes the ongoing debate about the Memphis Safe Task Force’s effectiveness. 

    By Bill Dries March 23, 2026

• February 2026

  • Sorting the Feagins situation. Rose calls local leadership a ‘disaster.’ Buckner opens campaign HQ.

    Also in the political roundup, Rose says he has a plan for state control after the Task Force; Buckner says the Task Force has a secret; and Smiley says the county mayor has a role to play at the jail.

    By Bill Dries February 23, 2026

  • One Shelby County candidate has more cash than all his opponents combined

    Newly filed campaign finance forms show two Shelby County Democratic mayoral candidates with far more financial resources than the rest of the crowded primary. 

    By Samuel Hardiman February 16, 2026

• January 2026

  • Justin J. Pearson running for reelection and U.S. House

    Races on the May and August ballots continue to take shape ahead of filing deadlines in February and March.

    By Bill Dries January 21, 2026

• June 2025

  • Police rule teacher’s death accidental, find no tampering with drinks

    Collierville Police and Shelby County Sheriff’s Office held a press conference Monday afternoon to talk about possible drink tampering in the suburb’s limits.

    By Abigail Warren June 03, 2025

• May 2025

  • Political Roundup: ‘Some of these devils want me to be gone,’ Ford Jr. said

    Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. calls out political rivals, campaigning for 2026 has already started and county budget hearings will be missing a lot of key people.

    By Bill Dries May 18, 2025

• March 2025

  • Autopsy confirms inmate’s cause of death

    Sherman Weakley, 22, died by suicide, according to his official autopsy.

    By Aarron Fleming March 04, 2025

• May 2021

  • Deputies’ training includes tour of National Civil Rights Museum

    For the first time, a class of 17 Shelby County Sheriff’s deputy recruits and two Collierville police officers, toured the National Civil Rights Museum and wrote essays about the experience before taking their training to the streets. 

    By Don Wade May 15, 2021