There are 18 article(s) tagged West Memphis:

• November 2024

  • West Memphis Buc-ee’s part of larger growth plans for massive travel centers

    Buc-ee’s are big, and they’re getting bigger.

    By Jane Roberts November 11, 2024

• October 2024

  • Buc-ee’s coming to West Memphis

    The 74,000-square-foot travel center, one of the largest in the region, is set to bring about 225 jobs to the area. 

    By Jane Roberts October 29, 2024

• August 2024

  • Depth of field: Agricenter sunflowers offer bloomy photo backdrop

    For about 25 years, Agricenter International has offered visitors the chance to say cheese in a 3-acre field teeming with sunflowers.

    By Stevie Paige August 21, 2024

• December 2023

  • Children’s therapy clinic founder now serves the community she grew up in

    LaTeasha Gaither-Davis founded Therapeutic Focus, which has a new 2,500-square-foot clinic in West Memphis, in 2011. As a child, she and her family struggled to find the services she now helps to provide.

    By Aisling Mäki December 17, 2023

• January 2023

  • As greyhounds run last laps, Southland eyes expansion

    Southland Greyhound Park opened in 1956 and catered to locals, but with expanded gaming, a new hotel and mobile sports books, the facility is now its parent company’s most lucrative. 

    By Jane Roberts January 01, 2023

• September 2022

  • At prayer event, West Memphis mayor calls out violence

    Medical assistant who lived in the community was a victim of daylong shooting spree across Memphis.

    By Jane Roberts September 12, 2022

• August 2022

  • MATA secures $76.3M in federal funding for long-planned public transit upgrades

    When U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen hosts the Federal Transit administrator Wednesday, Aug. 24, at the Memphis Area Transit Authority’s maintenance shop and head office in North Memphis, the good and the bad will be on display.

    By Bill Dries August 24, 2022

• May 2022

  • DeSoto County man killed in Ark. plane crash near Downtown

    The crash occurred on farmland near Dacus Lake, close to Downtown Memphis.

    By Julia Baker May 31, 2022

• February 2022

  • After Family Dollar warehouse is closed due to rats, officials want inquiry

    Live rodents, dead rodents in “various states of decay,” rodent feces, dead birds and bird droppings were found inside a West Memphis Family Dollar distribution facility, prompting a voluntary recall. 

    By The Associated Press, Jasmine McCraven February 21, 2022

• June 2021

  • Calkins: With the bridge out, will business at West Memphis firework tents still boom?

    For decades, Memphians have crossed over to Arkansas to get their fireworks. That will be considerably harder with the bridge out. A report from the West Memphis fireworks tents. Will business be a dud?

    By Geoff Calkins June 30, 2021

• March 2021

  • New West Memphis library could spur business along Broadway

    An overflow crowd came for the opening celebration for the new West Memphis Public Library & Innovation Center. Twice as large as the old library, the new place serves the community with much meeting spaces and as a potential catalyst for new development along Broadway.

    By Tom Bailey March 19, 2021

• October 2020

  • Marcus Brown is West Memphis’ version of Penny Hardaway

    Marcus Brown and Ja Morant’s retired numbers hang next to each other at Murray State. 

    By Drew Hill October 05, 2020

• September 2020

  • Southland restarts on-site sports betting

    Southland president and general manager David Wolf said it worked to have the sportsbook and kiosks ready in time for football season. 

    By Elle Perry September 09, 2020

• May 2020

  • Coronavirus live blog, May 18: Hybrid model likely for schools in fall

    Shelby County Schools superintendent Joris Ray outlines the district’s long-term strategy for reopening schools.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff May 18, 2020

• April 2020

  • Sanford: West Memphis mayor deserves a long-distance pat on the back

    The governor of Arkansas opposes allowing cities to issue their own stay-at-home orders, but that's not stopping Mayor Marco McClendon from moving forward with his curfew for West Memphis.

    By Otis Sanford April 09, 2020

• December 2019

  • Police chase from Memphis into Arkansas ends in fatal shooting

    Three Memphis police officers have been relieved of duty after a police shooting in West Memphis left one suspect dead.

    By Linda A. Moore December 31, 2019

• March 2019

  • Southland Gaming & Racing launching table games April 1

    Less than five months after Arkansas voters legalized four casinos statewide, Southland Gaming & Racing in West Memphis is ready to roll out its first table games.

    By Kate Crawford March 29, 2019

• January 2019

  • Southland announces $250 million investment in casino, 20-story hotel

    Southland Gaming & Racing on Thursday announced a $250 million investment in a 300-room, 20-story hotel and a full-fledged casino adjoining a greyhound racetrack in West Memphis.

    By Wayne Risher January 24, 2019