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  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: Ursula Madden goes to MLGW, and ‘X gon’ give it’ to Boston

    Interfaith Dinner is called off, the teen accused in the death of the “watermelon man” will be tried as an adult and new hotels are coming to historic Downtown buildings. 

    By Bianca Phillips February 09, 2024
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    Wrongfully convicted, Artis Whitehead is free after 21 years but fettered

    “You miss graduation, you miss birthday parties. You miss the little scrapes and the falls,” Artis Whitehead said of the things he missed about being a dad during the 21 years he spent in prison. “You miss being able to actually guide them.”

    By Julia Baker February 08, 2024
  • Music

    Fresh off Grammy wins, Jason Isbell stops at Rhodes

    “Music is what we have in common with strangers,” said Jason Isbell, now six-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, to a near standing-room-only crowd at Rhodes College.

    By Christopher Wright February 07, 2024
  • Public Safety

    Teen accused of killing ‘watermelon man’ transferred to adult court

    Demarion Tackett, 16, is accused of shooting 76-year-old John Materna, who was known for selling watermelons in The Heights neighborhood, on May 15, 2023. Materna died in the hospital two weeks after being shot.

    By Aarron Fleming February 07, 2024
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    Interfaith Dinner, longtime symbol of Muslim outreach, canceled

    Organizers say sensitivities about Gaza make the gathering between Muslims, Jews and Christians too difficult.

    By Jane Roberts February 08, 2024
  • City of Memphis

    Fix for flashing streetlights in sight, says MLGW CEO

    Memphis Light, Gas and Water has moved into the second phase of its project to replace the city’s old sodium streetlights with LED bulbs.

    By Keely Brewer February 07, 2024
  • Premium North Memphis

    North Star for North Memphis or industrial wasteland?

    “North Memphis is not here to save your environment,” Memphis City Council member Michalyn Easter-Thomas said about a proposed facility to keep trees and wood waste out of landfills.

    By Keely Brewer February 07, 2024
  • City of Memphis

    Ursula Madden named MLGW VP

    Madden previously helped Memphis navigate “some of the most difficult times in our history,” said MLGW president and CEO Doug McGowen. 

    By Keely Brewer February 07, 2024
  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: City Council ethics complaint, Nashville on MSCS board

    The Lake District could be liquidated, state lawmakers try to compromise over wetlands and Young says changes are coming to Beale.

    By Bianca Phillips February 07, 2024
  • Education

    Southwest student one of eight nationally recognized for talent, grit

    “Southwest is the first place that I feel like adults have looked at me and spoken to me and said, ‘OK, this person has potential. This person can do something and has good ideas'”, said Allyson Harrison.

    By Jane Roberts February 07, 2024
  • Health Care

    Organ donations, transplants grow in Tennessee and Mid-South

    In 2023, 47 of the nation’s 56 organ procurement organizations, including Tennessee’s, broke records in the recovery of organs for transplant. 

    By Aisling Mäki February 07, 2024
  • Education

    Rep. White to file legislation to let governor add members to Memphis school board

    Rep. Mark White (R-Memphis) cited prolonged frustration with the board’s locally elected leadership when explaining his plans to Chalkbeat on Tuesday.

    By Marta W. Aldrich, Laura Testino February 07, 2024
  • City of Memphis

    City Council moves up final vote on health insurance coverage to Feb. 20

    In other action Tuesday, the council approved the reappointment of Robert Knecht as the city’s public-works director.

    By Bill Dries February 06, 2024
  • Premium Metro

    Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi elects first Black, first female bishop

    Rev. Dorothy Wells came to Memphis to attend Rhodes College in the late 1970s. She practiced law 18 years before entering the ministry. 

    By Jane Roberts February 07, 2024
  • State Government

    Lawmakers consider wetlands compromise ‘too important not to get right’

    Half of the state’s wetlands — often described as “earth’s kidneys — could be deregulated under a new proposal, but lawmakers are looking at a compromise that would take wetlands’ size and quality into account.

    By Keely Brewer February 06, 2024
  • Shelby County

    DA, others challenge state law that removes review power in capital cases

    The Tennessee General Assembly passed a law in 2023 taking the power away from local DAs in collateral review of death penalty convictions and instead putting the authority in the hands of the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office. 

    By Julia Baker February 06, 2024
  • Arts & Culture

    Withers Gallery joins Civil Rights Trail, Beale Street’s future explored

    The archive of 60 years of Ernest Withers’ photographs joins the national set of historic places as the Beale Street entertainment district marks 10 years of operation and management by the Downtown Memphis Commission.

    By Bill Dries February 06, 2024
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    Memphis resident files ethics complaint against council member

    A Memphis resident has filed an ethics complaint against a Memphis City Council member over an alleged conflict of interest.

    By Samuel Hardiman February 07, 2024
  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: DAs get equal pay, and life might not be better at The Lake

    MEM lands big bucks for a terminal upgrade, the sun isn’t setting on a county solar moratorium and Collierville puts the brakes on a car dealership. 

    By Bianca Phillips February 06, 2024
  • Shelby County

    County Commission OKs raises for DA’s office, eliminating pay disparity

    The DA’s office will now receive $991,178 for the remainder of the fiscal year 2024, which comes out of the general fund balance. Each following fiscal year, the DA’s office will receive $2.98 million.

    By Julia Baker February 06, 2024
  • State Government

    Gov. Lee proposes 2025 budget in sixth State of the State address

    “The state of our state is strong, resilient and ready for the future,” Gov. Bill Lee told the audience of state lawmakers and other officials within the House chamber at the Tennessee State Capitol in Downtown Nashville.

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    Gov. Lee proposes $1.2 billion in business tax refunds, $410 million annual cut

    By Ian Round February 06, 2024
  • Shelby County

    County ban on some solar farms extended to May

    The assessment of Shelby County’s requirements for solar farms stemmed, in part, from the pushback against a 1,500-acre project planned in Millington.

    By Keely Brewer February 05, 2024
  • North Mississippi

    Second DeSoto County inmate arrested after nearly two weeks on the run

    Gene Dewayne Saulsberry was arrested by Shelby County Sheriff’s Office’s Fugitive Apprehension Team around 2 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 5, in Hickory Hill.

    By Rob Moore February 05, 2024
  • State Government

    Gov. Lee proposes $1.2 billion in business tax refunds, $410 million annual cut

    The tax cut is among the biggest expenses in the governor’s budget, and comes as state revenues are stagnating. Lee argues the state can afford it because revenue is stabilizing at a level significantly above where it was a few years ago.

    By Ian Round February 05, 2024
  • City of Memphis

    City Council nears end of mayor’s appointees, delays health insurance vote

    The City Council has a few more votes on Mayor Paul Young’s remaining appointees to his leadership team and some questions on the interim status of Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis.

    By Bill Dries February 05, 2024

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