“I normally would have said no to a skewered sea creature, but as The Daily Memphian’s new food reporter, I know there are times I’ll need to get out of my culinary comfort zone.”

TJ Hardaway heads to Nashville to take his seat in the state House for an anticipated Thursday vote on a Republican plan to redraw the boundaries of the state’s nine Congressional districts.

“One need not support any particular politician to recognize that intentionally fragmenting the voting strength of a historic Black community carries moral consequences. We should at least have enough honesty to admit what is happening.”

Ducks Unlimited, Financial Federal and Burch, Porter and Johnson make promotions and additions. 

Anthropic, the company behind the widely successful Claude chatbot, would use all of Colossus’ computing capacity. 

Collierville won’t be posting anymore on X, formerly Twitter. The decision was partially due to engagement but also due to explicit content that surfaced when searching the town’s name.

A close-up of Shelby County, obtained by The Daily Memphian and shared by legislators on social media, shows that most of Memphis’ municipal limits appear to be split roughly three ways. The map still does not include streets, precincts or municipal boundaries. 

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The map would make all nine of Tennessee’s seats Republican-leaning districts.

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Today’s puzzle is of strawberries at Jones Orchard and was taken by Patrick Lantrip.

Wanda Halbert, the current county clerk, lost the Democratic nomination for Shelby County Criminal Court Clerk to state Rep. Joe Towns Jr. on Tuesday, May 5, by a 121-vote margin according to unofficial totals.

As a state takeover looms, voters retained two Memphis-Shelby County Schools incumbents seeking re-election, according to unofficial election results from the board’s first-ever partisan primaries held Tuesday, May 5.

“The more they tried to explain it, the worse it got,” said Patrick Lawton, former Germantown city administrator. 

Shante Avant, Karen Streeter and Lashanta Rudd won seats on the County Commission with their win in Tuesday’s Democratic primaries.

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Most in the 11-candidate field talked about specific changes to the office that issues new vehicle tags, car titles and collects registration fees in addition to issuing marriage licenses and business permits.

Four Shelby County Board of Commissioners races now have their final pairings for the August general election.

Shelby County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Anthony Buckner won the Shelby County Democratic primary for sheriff Tuesday.

The Lynx get a big goal just before halftime before turning on the style in the second half to defeat a game ECS team.

The winner of the Democratic primary will meet former state Rep. John DeBerry, the Republican nominee, in the August general election race to succeed outgoing Mayor Lee Harris.

Central Arkansas (27-22) took a 2-0 lead after the first two innings before the Tigers (19-28) scored a combined seven runs in the third and fourth innings. 

Six of the Shelby County Commission races were either decided or their general election match-ups were already set prior to Election Day.

The two women who were wounded were bystanders when one of those in the argument opened fire, Memphis police said.

“We’re trying to combat loneliness,” said the operator of Second Helpings Cafe. 

Hundreds flooded around the state capitol to protest a Republican plan to redraw the state’s congressional map, effectively removing the one Democratic voice Tennessee has in Washington D.C.