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  • Spirit of Memphis

    Women of Achievement honors eight heroines

    “This year’s honorees celebrate women who stand up and speak out – to empower women, to write the truth, to protect women’s health, for accessible arts education and for LBGTQIA+ rights,” said Deborah Clubb, executive director of the Memphis Area Women’s Council.

    By Jane Roberts March 01, 2024
  • Public Safety

    Lamar Avenue gas station deemed public nuisance

    The Organized Crime Unit conducted an investigation into Gas Express from October 2021 to January 2024. Over that time period, police were called to the gas station 903 times.

    By Julia Baker February 29, 2024
  • North Mississippi

    Memphis man sentenced to 38 years in Southaven attempted-murder case

    The case was the first DeSoto County District Attorney Matthew Barton tried since being elected in November when he ran on taking a strict approach to crime committed by Memphians in North Mississippi. 

    By Rob Moore February 29, 2024
  • Public Safety

    Petition filed in Lester Street Murders case claims false confession

    Jessie Dotson was convicted of the six-murder scene in 2010 and currently sits on death row in Nashville.

    By Ben Wheeler March 29, 2024
  • Public Safety

    Bail set at $1 million for mother charged in her daughter’s death

    Brittney Jackson is charged in the death of Sequoia Samuels, her 4-year-old daughter who found dead last year following a city-wide manhunt after she was allegedly reported missing.

    By Aarron Fleming February 29, 2024
  • Elections

    Nearly 27,000 cast early ballots ahead of March 5 primary election day

    The 12-day early voting period saw Democratic primary turnout drop to less than half what it was four years ago while Republican primary turnout was off by almost 1,500 from 2020.

    By Bill Dries February 29, 2024
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    The Early Word: Bartlett’s about to be cooler, and Muddy’s turns four (or 16)

    Third time’s not a charm for Wanda Halbert’s revenue reports, DeSoto County DA wants to “stop Memphis” and we’ve got an update on FedExForum renovations.

    By Bianca Phillips February 29, 2024
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    The Titans are cutting a ribbon for their stadium. When will the Grizzlies?

    Gov. Bill Lee and Metro Nashville officials are scheduled to cut the proverbial ribbon Thursday afternoon, raising the question of when Memphis and Shelby County officials will do the same outside FedExForum.

    By Samuel Hardiman February 29, 2024
  • Premium Arts & Culture

    Hooks National Book Award winner ties Black theater to activism

    In particular, the assistant professor honed in on theater as a way to resist calls for what Fleming describes as “Black patience” or for Black people to suffer and wait patiently to receive equal rights.

    By Kambui Bomani February 28, 2024
  • North Mississippi

    DeSoto County Sheriff’s K-9 Luca laid to rest

    Humans and dogs lined the streets to pay respects to the canine who also served U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan during his 10 years of life. 

    By Rob Moore February 29, 2024
  • Shelby County

    Wanda Halbert’s revenue reports miss mark — for the third time

    On Tuesday, Clerk Wanda Halbert submitted revised revenue reports to County Trustee Regina Newman, who said they were wrong. Meanwhile, a state audit team is due in Memphis to begin a review for the Tennessee comptroller.

    By Bill Dries February 29, 2024
  • State Government

    Committee appointed to consider removing Judge Melissa Boyd

    The committee could meet as soon as Thursday, March 7. The process for her removal is not the same as a formal impeachment, which would stop her from running for office again.

    By Ian Round, Aarron Fleming February 28, 2024
  • North Mississippi

    DeSoto County DA says trial is chance to ‘stop Memphis and save DeSoto’

    Barton campaigned on taking a tough approach on crime committed in DeSoto County by Memphis residents. This trial was his opportunity to demonstrate that commitment.

    By Rob Moore February 29, 2024
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    The Early Word: Young gets an earful on crime, and BOLO for a Bigfoot

    State comptroller is sending an audit team to Halbert’s office, MLGW looks to the future and an indoor amusement park is coming soon. 

    By Bianca Phillips February 28, 2024
  • North Mississippi

    DeSoto County Republicans host U.S. Senate candidate forum

    Speaking to a crowd of about 100 constituents, Mississippi State Rep. Dan Eubanks and retired Marine Corps Colonel Ghannon Burton squared off against incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker’s wife, Gayle Wicker. 

    By Rob Moore February 27, 2024
  • City of Memphis

    Crime dominates mayor’s ‘One Memphis’ town hall

    If Memphis Mayor Paul Young had any doubts that crime is the most prevalent issue with Memphians, those doubts didn’t last long Tuesday, Feb. 27, at his first in a series of “One Memphis” town hall meetings.

    Related story:

    Mayor Paul Young asks gang members for ‘7-day ceasefire'

    By Bill Dries March 01, 2024
  • Midtown

    250-pound sasquatch stolen from Cooper-Young yard

    One neighbor compared the theft to the Mona Lisa being taken from the Louvre. 

    By Holly Whitfield February 27, 2024
  • State Government

    Nonprofits working with DAs will disclose donors if TN bill becomes law

    The bill seeks transparency from progressive criminal-justice reform groups like the Vera Institute of Justice, Justice Innovation Lab and Memphis-based Just City, which local Republican lawmakers blame in part for crime in Memphis.

    By Ian Round February 28, 2024
  • City of Memphis

    MLGW typically plans five years ahead. ‘MLGW 2045’ will change that

    “It’s important that we take a look ahead, because the challenges are not going to get any easier,” MLGW President and CEO Doug McGowen said Tuesday, Feb. 27. 

    By Keely Brewer February 27, 2024
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Overton High to get $20K in trumpets, trombones, other instruments

    “(Overton’s) values align with ours: to help bring out the gift of music that lives within all students,” said a Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation representative.

    By Christopher Wright February 27, 2024
  • Premium Spirit of Memphis

    First Black UTHSC graduate visits his old stomping grounds

    Alvin Crawford came home to Memphis to share his story of growing up in Orange Mound, traveling the segregated South as a musician and becoming the first Black graduate of University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

    By Aisling Mäki February 27, 2024
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    Memphis Tigers paying homage to their Black pioneers

    In September of last year, the Memphis athletic department launched its trailblazers initiative to honor each sport’s first Black athlete to play for the Tigers.

    By Frank Bonner II February 27, 2024
  • Public Safety

    February crime-spree suspect deemed competent for trial

    The preliminary hearing for Courdarion Craft, 20, was set during a Tuesday, Feb. 27, court date. Craft’s attorney Brandon Hall appeared on his behalf.

    By Julia Baker February 27, 2024
  • Public Safety

    Mayor Paul Young asks gang members for ‘7-day ceasefire’

    Memphis Mayor Paul Young convened a discussion with local gang members with the help of 901 Bloc Squad and Heal 901, two of the city’s violence intervention programs.

    By Aarron Fleming February 27, 2024
  • Shelby County

    Tennessee Comptroller sending audit team as ‘boots on the ground’ to clerk’s office

    “The evidence of incompetence and willful neglect by management in the Shelby County Clerk’s Office is overwhelming,” Tennessee Comptroller Jason Mumpower wrote in a letter to Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and the Shelby County Commission.

    By Bill Dries February 28, 2024

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