Three years ago, Memphis Light, Gas and Water issued its first boil-water advisory for the area. Since then, it’s issued four more.

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Insight Global moves into TraVure, Chase Bank proposed to be in Cordova and TwelveStone Infusion Clinic is moving into the Wolf River Medical Building. 

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Jeff Jones, interim superintendent, made it clear the decision was not to rescind rezoning elementary schools but to delay until the 2025-26 school year.

United States Rep. David Kustoff stopped by Collierville Rotary Club on Tuesday. He spoke about illegal immigration and the accomplishments of the House of Representatives in 2023.

Journalist Jerome Wright, 74, died Monday evening. He covered Memphis for more than five decades. He knew the place better than anyone else. But he became a beloved figure in the city because he treated everyone with kindness and respect. 

“She was very disappointed in Memphis about how the so-called Black children were allowed to falter because it allowed different subsets of schools,” said Aaron L. Lewis Jr., Lewis’s son.

Regional One Health is using community-project funding to bring state-of-the-art technology, updated waiting rooms and renovated workstations to the aging county hospital.

The referendum, which would allow the Memphis City Council to set its own pay and that of city division directors, will remain on the August 2024 ballot for city voters to decide.

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Two prisoners walked off from a DeSoto County nonprofit where they were working Tuesday, leading to a manhunt and an associated arrest.

A nationally ranked team with plenty of issues to resolve give Parth Upadhyaya, Tim Buckley and host Greg Gaston plenty to dissect on The Daily Memphian Tigers Podcast with Greg Gaston.

It’s time for change as No. 19 Memphis tries to bounce back from a two-game skid.

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Memphis Police Department Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis would continue to serve in an interim capacity.

Eight Memphis-area boys basketball teams ranked in the latest AP state polls.

Northpoint also picks up votes in Division 2-A.

MLGW’s water samples have come back clear. 

“To say that that first year was a challenging one would be an understatement,” Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy said.

Students were dismissed at 10:30 a.m., according to the school district.

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The team bus was stuck at a construction site and the coach lost his voice, but the Grizzlies found a way to beat the Raptors on Monday night in Toronto. 

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Box score: Grizzlies 108, Raptors 100

Two Germantown restaurants were caught selling beer to minors during a routine sting operation by the Germantown Police Department.

“Today is a wonderful day for Mississippi,” state Gov. Tate Reeves said. “We’re here to celebrate a historic investment in our state, the single largest payroll commitment of any major project in Mississippi history.”

If the state attorney general says Gov. Bill Lee has the power to temporarily assign judges from around Tennessee to handle criminal cases in Shelby County, Taylor will request he do so “immediately.”

“Normally, we can handle 3 to 5 inches of rain for several days, but the ground is almost frozen in a lot of places,” forecaster Caitlin Dirkes said. 

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Lizzette Reynolds has no teacher’s license or experience leading a classroom, in apparent violation of a century-old state law outlining the job’s requirements, Democrats say.