Clay Bailey goes down memory lane in a golf cart, celebrating a number of courses that have disappeared from the local landscape.

Natalie McKinney and Tamarques Porter will take elected office for the first time when they are sworn in to the Memphis-Shelby County Schools board. Knocking on doors got them here. 

Of 30 major U.S. cities, Memphis had the highest increase in road deaths from 2019 to 2022, according to a recent analysis from the New York Times. 

Also happening this week: The Memphis City Council will deal with November ballot referendums, and Ja Morant has a birthday.

Four species of Asian carp have firmly established a home in the Mississippi River basin, and experts say they are here to stay. But one way to get the carp population under control seems relatively simple — eat them.

The mausoleum at Forest Hill Cemetery where Elvis Presley was interred shortly after he died in 1977 opens again to the public this month after being closed for the last seven years. 

Given how much music the city has produced, it’s not much of a surprise that the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll punches well above its weight as a music subject.

The 13% turnout for the combination of state and federal primaries and county general elections was the lowest in Shelby County since 2004. 

Bane and the district supplied thousands of backpacks, and the Grizzlies guard shared his thoughts on the team’s offseason. 

Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert is facing a second ouster petition after the first was dismissed in June.

Memphis Police Department Officer Demetrice Johnson, 34, died in the line of duty Friday. “He was living his dream,” said his friend of more than 20 years Henry Grant of Johnson’s ambition to be a law enforcement officer.

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The local judge also told reporters Friday, Aug. 2, that local bail reform efforts have been working.

A federal judge ruled Friday that Tyre Nichols’ young son must be represented by someone besides his grandmother RowVaughn Wells’ attorneys in the civil rights lawsuit against the City of Memphis. 

Her first job out of college was working for millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt in New York. She got the job through a New York Times want ad.

Clerk-elect Tami Sawyer said her opponent’s campaign focus on Sawyer’s activist roots was ignored by voters. “I talked about my priorities. The other party talked about me,” she told The Daily Memphian.

The utility company also said the supercomputer’s heavy electric load will have “no impact” on its reliability. 

Antonio Adams and Walter Person have served in an interim capacity since Memphis Mayor Paul Young took office Jan. 1. 

The lawsuit stems from the department’s decision to create a second lieutenant position, a move that the sergeants say harms their career prospects. 

A Memphis police officer and a civilian died early Friday morning after a two-vehicle crash near Downtown, the Memphis Police Department said. A second officer is in critical condition at Regional One Health.

We’ve got your Election Day results, plus an update on The Lake District and an Irish fast-fashion retailer coming to Wolfchase.

Democratic incumbent Steve Cohen won Thursday’s primary for U.S. House District 9. Republican David Kustoff was unopposed for House District 8. Republican Marsha Blackburn will face Democrat Gloria Johnson for the U.S. Senate.

The incumbents in every contested Shelby County legislative primary cruised to reelection Thursday, meaning there may not be much change in the local delegation. 

Voters ousted two of the three incumbents who sought reelection, including the board’s chair. 

Lyle Conley escapes with a narrow victory in an Arlington school board race as incumbents rule the day, many of them unopposed.

Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer won a hard-fought partisan contest for General Sessions Court Clerk in the only countywide race on the Thursday, Aug. 1, ballot.