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    Millington could sue Halbert’s office

    “Everything is on the table,” Millington’s city manager said.

    By Abigail Warren October 16, 2025
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    How Mayor Young wants to work with the Memphis Safe Task Force — instead of contesting it

    Mayor Paul Young is aware his strategy — and the Task Force itself — are controversial.

    By Bill Dries October 20, 2025
  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: Troopers don’t play by MPD’s rules; Palladio’s story may go on

    JJJ makes a surprise return, an Uptown brewery patio goes to the dogs and we tell you where to get wired this weekend.

    By Bianca Phillips October 16, 2025
  • Premium Public Safety

    State troopers want to stop speeders. Drivers are crashing out.

    Since the beginning of the Memphis Safe Task Force, routine traffic stops by state troopers have turned into high-speed pursuits, several which have ended in crashes.

    By Aarron Fleming October 16, 2025
  • Premium Downtown

    Civil Rights Museum looks to future with expansion of ‘sacred ground’

    The National Civil Rights Museum’s Freedom Awards mark another move by the 34-year-old institution further onto the “sacred ground” it occupies.

    By Bill Dries October 16, 2025
  • Public Safety

    New stats illustrate Memphis crime climate prior to Task Force’s arrival

    Crime data from the first three quarters of 2025 reveals where the city’s crime rate stood before the federal law enforcement saturation.

    By Jane Donahoe October 16, 2025
  • Education

    Tennessee should fully fund special education pre-K, districts say

    The Lakeland School System has criticized the state’s focus on private school choice over fully funding special education pre-K classes.

    By Melissa Brown October 15, 2025
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    The Early Word: Lee Harris may sue task force; Bill Lee says it’s here forever

    Hotel developer is buying a Downtown office building, Orgill opens a hardware-store owner’s dream and hipster workwear comes to Memphis.

    By Bianca Phillips October 15, 2025
  • Public Safety

    How Boss Crump stared down a governor’s threat to send the National Guard to Memphis

    Memphians may be intrigued to learn what happened in 1938 in a world where Memphis stood largely united against a National Guard deployment, behind a self-assured leader with a powerful political organization and friends in Washington, D.C.

    By Robert Dean Pope, Justin Pope October 15, 2025
  • Premium North Mississippi

    Lindsey Whiteside’s sentence is illegal, DeSoto County DA says

    DeSoto County District Attorney Matthew Barton said his office is challenging the sentence, arguing sexual battery committed by a person in a position of trust is classified as a violent crime and is specifically ineligible for the house arrest program under Mississippi law.

    By Brandon LaGrone II October 14, 2025
  • Shelby County

    Mayor Lee Harris says county could take Memphis Safe Task Force to court

    “We are weighing some sort of legal action in order to put a stop to some of the unconstitutional actions that we’ve seen and heard about,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said. 

    By Bill Dries October 14, 2025
  • Visual Arts

    Historic-photo exhibit exports Memphis soul to Seoul

    The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Arts Council Korea are also planning a three-year partnership that would bring emerging Korean curators to the American Southeast.

    By Elle Perry October 14, 2025
  • Premium City of Memphis

    About 1,500 feds working in Memphis, US Marshals director says

    Gov. Bill Lee declined to set an end date for when the task force’s work would be completed in Memphis. He said it could last forever.

    By Samuel Hardiman October 14, 2025
  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: Cops allegedly race Corvettes; pastor gets house arrest

    Collierville has a new prosecutor, Silverfield is feeling “angst” over UAB game and we look at scores from students with private-school vouchers.

    By Bianca Phillips October 14, 2025
  • Premium Education

    Students with income-limited vouchers outperform MSCS on reading, but not math

    Data from the Department of Education show students receiving income-limited Education Savings Account vouchers performed slightly better in reading exams than their MSCS counterparts. Both sets of students made gains in math, but at the same clip. 

    By Laura Testino October 14, 2025
  • Premium North Mississippi

    Former youth pastor spared prison for child sexual battery

    A former high school coach and youth minister at a DeSoto County church pleaded guilty to sexual battery with a minor, but her sentence was considered too lenient by District Attorney Matthew Barton.

    By Brandon LaGrone II October 14, 2025
  • Public Safety

    Two off-duty Memphis cops arrested for drag racing, department says

    A Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper allegedly spotted Corvettes driving at a “high rate of speed” on Winchester Road at 2 a.m. Sunday.

    By Aarron Fleming October 13, 2025
  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: Bauhaus in Frayser is for sale, but beware of Pig Man

    The National Guard’s been here before, the library removes banned books displays and we tell you where to find sushi for breakfast.

    By Bianca Phillips October 13, 2025
  • Shelby County

    Lowery wants a ‘change in culture,’ Pearson gears up fundraising, and Republicans want Sawyer to resign

    Also in the political roundup: Congressional contender Justin J. Pearson campaigns. And General Sessions Court Clerk Tami Sawyer is asked to resign over a recorded courthouse confrontation.

    By Bill Dries October 13, 2025
  • Premium Ask the Memphian

    Ask the Memphian: What’s the story of the Shelby Forest Pig Man?

    In this week’s installment of a special Halloween-themed “Ask the Memphian,” we’ll tell you all about the Shelby Forest Pig Man. It’s up to you if you believe any of it.

    By Jody Callahan October 13, 2025
  • Premium Metro

    1968, 1978 and 2020: National Guard looms large in city’s history

    The 1968 deployment of troops to Memphis during the sanitation workers strike stands out in the city’s history. But there have been other guard deployments in the city since.

    By Bill Dries October 14, 2025
  • Metro

    This Week in Memphis: Freedom Awards and Tigers basketball on Beale

    Also happening this week: The first-ever LGBTQ Business Week offers discounts across the city, and students are out on fall break.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff October 12, 2025
  • Behind The Headlines

    County commissioners split on whether to fight Harris’ veto

    Shelby County Lee Harris’ veto of a resolution to move school board elections and the National Guard coming to town were hot topics on “Behind the Headlines.”

    By Bill Dries October 11, 2025
  • Public Safety

    Trial date set for civil suit over 201 inmate’s death

    A trial date has been set in the civil lawsuit filed by the family of Ramon McGhee, who died last year at the Shelby County Jail.

    By Aarron Fleming October 10, 2025
  • Premium City of Memphis

    Immigration advocates say fear surges as Task Force ramps up

    With helicopters in the air and detentions rising, some legal immigrants are afraid to leave home.

    By Jody Callahan October 14, 2025

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