After starting the season with a shutout loss, Bartlett quarterback Kam Alexander and a strong defense led the Panthers over the Lynx.

The Germantown employee responsible for the refueling leak that caused the suburb’s water crisis last month was away from the generator for more than a half hour, according to records of the internal investigation released Friday.

The board of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which provides MLGW with electricity, approved a 4.5% rate hike Thursday. The increase will equal about $3.50 more each month for TVA’s 10 million customers across seven states.

Half a century ago this month, 39,000 Memphis children — about a third of the then-Memphis City Schools system — were told to board school buses and continue their education at new schools in an effort to racially integrate them.

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The videos show some of what occurred the day of the encounter, but they don’t answer a number of key questions. 

“To wear my son’s cremated ashes around my neck this morning, I want justice for my son. My son was murdered. He wasn’t killed,” said Charlotte Haggett, Jarveon Hudspeth’s mother.

Citizens at the meeting said issues they face include lack of accessibility, long wait times, lack of communication and broken-down buses.

DeSoto County officials celebrated the groundbreaking of the $19 million Agri-Education Center Friday, Aug. 25.

Brad Loos will manage the Memphis Athletics Fund and lead the strategic planning of major gifts for the athletic department.

Germantown will begin work on improvements to Wolf River Boulevard and Germantown Road next week. The intersection is one of the busiest in Shelby County.

The Chancery Court lawsuit seeks to stop construction on the new riverfront Brooks Museum, charging violations of the terms of the “public promenade” established when the city was founded in 1819.