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Lawmakers will return to Nashville on Tuesday, Jan. 9, for the start of the 2024 legislative session. It’s the first time the full General Assembly is back since an August special session on public safety

Today’s puzzle is not too hard but not too easy.

While the Tigers took a late lead late, turnovers in the final minutes of the game plagued the Memphis offense.

Carpenter Art Garden and a team of local collaborators are constructing the park on the corner of Princeton Avenue and Tillman Street.

The Tigers will have to regroup quickly after a rough couple days to take on an SMU basketball team that’s top 50 in KenPom and the NET.

Mayor Lee Harris offered a preview of the budget proposal he will take to Shelby County commissioners in the spring and refuted speculation that the county is short of the funding needed for new high schools.

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Firebirds Wood Fired Grill wanted to bring a new restaurant to the Silo Square project. The development has become emblematic of Southaven’s status as a developing city in one of the fastest-growing counties in the U.S.

With the collective’s knowledge and funding, the Brooks will annually present one major exhibition by Black artists and buy at least one work by a Black artist for its permanent collection.

Johntavius Griggs has been in custody at the Shelby County Jail for more than eight years on a first-degree murder charge in limbo with no clear path forward.

During a StoryCorps session, two people record a 40-minute conversation on who they are, what they’ve learned in life and how they would like to be remembered.

Today’s sudoku is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy.

R’Chaun King, a 6-6 senior headed to Arkansas State, comes up big late for the Panthers.

The Grizzlies stars took turns planting daggers in the fourth quarter against Los Angeles. 

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Chelsey Duckett and her co-defendents have been indicted for alleged roles in the death of Gershun Freeman, who died in 2022 after an altercation with the officers at Shelby County Jail.

Laws passed in the wake of Tyre Nichols’ death instituted new data collection policies for traffic stops; stipulated that only marked police cars make traffic stops, and mandated residents not get pulled over for low-level offenses like faulty brake lights. 

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If you’ve never heard of Vietnamese beef jerky rolls — known as goi du du kho bo cuon — you’re in for a treat.

The site is only the second in Shelby County to be certified since the state began the program in 2012 to promote strategic properties for development.

Now that the Germantown location of Let It Fly has locked its doors, the sports bar’s concentration is directed at a new location in Southaven at Silo Square.

Martavius Jones has just snuck into your house through an unlocked window and stolen a knee replacement from your dark living room.

The Memphis-based chocolatier is leaning even more into luxury and ceasing individual chocolate sales except for special holidays. 

The reappointment of Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis as police chief is among the slew of mayoral appointments that the Memphis City Council is slated to consider at its first meeting of 2024.

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Today’s puzzle is a “killer.”