The city wants to use the Department of Justice’s retreat from its civil rights investigation of the MPD as a tool to fight the lawsuit stemming from Nichols’ January 2023 beating and death at the hands of five now-former Memphis police officers.
The full commission has one more voting meeting on June 23 to approve an operating budget, a capital budget and set the county property-tax rate before the fiscal year begins.
The Volunteers travel to play No. 3 seed Arkansas in a best-of-3 super regional with a berth in the College World Series on the line.
The claims offer the 18-month, $487,500 payout described in Feagins’ contract as an alternative outcome to returning her to the school district’s superintendent seat.
The sentencing dates come less than a month after Bean, Haley and Smith were acquitted of all charges at the state level.
John Zeanah’s new role with the City of Memphis boils down to an essential question: “How do we best pull the levers of city government in order to advance goals for housing, for community development, for economic development?”
Collierville police answered calls over the weekend to a large gathering leading to the arrest of eight people on various drug and firearms charges.
Penalty comes after TSSAA finds the Golden Wildcats, who reached the 2024 state championship game, used an ineligible player in eight games — including all five postseason contests.
There were 26 bids placed on Penny Hardaway’s game-worn uniform and warmup set from his 1993-94 rookie season.
Tennessee pitcher Karlyn Pickens, a National Fastpitch Coaches Association first-team All-American, allowed just one earned run on five hits and struck out nine for the Vols (47-17).
The owners of the Side Porch Steakhouse are adding a coffeehouse in the former pharmacy building next door to their restaurant.
The contract that has kept The University of Tennessee Health Science Center operating the West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center is expiring, and a request seeking a new operator ended without a bid.
Smiley jumped in the river to rescue a drowning child on Friday before being swept away by currents that officials estimated were as fast as 6 mph.
A Thunder-Pacers NBA Finals is perhaps encouraging for the Grizzlies while underscoring some needed areas of improvement.
“This is the first time since the inception of the building that we’ve had any substantial or any availability beyond one or two suites. This building offers way more than any other building in this city.”
With a little more than five months to go until the start of college basketball’s 2025-26 regular season in November, the Tigers have situations to resolve and wrinkles to iron out.
Sand, silt and clay is essential to rebuilding — or, at this point, maintaining — the fragile coastline that has been receding for decades. But less than 10% of the Mississippi River’s sediment reaches the critical Bird’s Foot Delta.
“Public safety is not a partisan issue — everyone deserves to feel safe in their community.”
Tennessee plays Wake Forest (6 p.m., ESPN2) and Ole Miss plays Murray State (6 p.m., ESPN+) as the Volunteers and Rebels try and advance to the regionals.
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This week’s puzzle features a photo at an event honoring the award-winning Central High School jazz band.
Memphis-Shelby County Schools board member Keith Williams has retired from his role leading a local teacher union, a position that has stirred concerns of conflicting interests throughout his tenure on the school board.
Terms of the sale include a condition that the new owners will not operate a movie theater without the written consent of the seller and Malco for the next 20 years.
Here’s a potential University of Memphis basketball 2025-26 rotation and depth chart ahead of the Tigers’ start of summer workouts Monday.
Owner Jerrod Smith said Shotwell Candy Co. isn’t going down without a fight.
Within three years of starting its high school classes, Lakeland Prep is the state baseball champion and has bragging rights in Class AA.
Those who fancied themselves good spellers gathered Saturday at Crosstown Brewing Co. for the Drunken Dictionary Spelling Bee.
“We often say loneliness is a public health crisis, and it is. I see it daily. People come to Church Health for physical ailments, but many times what they are really suffering from is isolation.”
Good Fortune Co. has appeared on the Food Network on Guy Fieri’s “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives,” and the co-owners have appeared separately on “Guy’s Grocery Games.”
Clay Bailey’s column about the drive-in movie theaters that used to be in Memphis inspired this week’s crossword puzzle.