The Cordova-based state House seat is the only Shelby County seat with no incumbent. With no Republican or independent contenders, the August Democratic primary will determine who gets the seat.

The organization helps preventchild abuse by helping parents deal with their frustration and counseling them through triggering events.

New Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Marie Feagins said her first 100 days went “exactly the way that I had hoped.” 

Olson thought he was giving away a painting of a cat. Instead, he tapped into a massive, enthusiastic and wonderfully supportive cat community he didn’t know existed before.

MLGW and xAI are both designing greywater plants, Brian Kelsey is still going to prison and Jaylen Wells saves the day.

Four sitting Memphis school board members face challengers in the upcoming election, including District 2 representative and MSCS board chair Althea Greene. She is facing Natalie McKinney, a public critic of the district’s superintendent search process, and pastor Ernest Gillespie III.

A new plan for expanding the Memphis Light, Gas and Water board to include two voting suburban seats is still an uphill battle to get on the November ballot.

“The idea that the No. 2 in command, who Chief Davis said she relied heavily on, could not be here in two hours is problematic,” Memphis City Council member Jerri Green said during a council discussion Tuesday on the topic. 

A former Shelby County chancellor has been named a special judge, at least for the time being. 

“In the meeting, (a neighbor) asked, ‘Are we getting violent offenders?’ (A company representative) said he’s not allowed to discuss that.” 

A three-judge panel from the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Kelsey’s lawyer failed to sufficiently object to any alleged breach of his plea agreement. 

xAI will offer more jobs than projected, Southwest college was hacked and we’ve got a look at the only countywide race on the August ballot.

Here is what the two contenders for General Sessions Court clerk told The Daily Memphian about their qualifications to be the next clerk of the largest court system in the state.

Here is what the two contenders for General Sessions Court clerk told The Daily Memphian about what they each would do if they win the Aug. 1 election.

Lisa Arnold and Tami Sawyer are the candidates in the only countywide race on the Aug. 1 ballot. The election will mean a change in the administrator and records keeper for the state’s largest court system.

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The Memphis suburb’s mayor’s seat, three alderman positions and two Arlington Community Schools (ACS) board offices are on this year’s town ballot.

A U.S. Army veteran charged with fatally shooting a homeless man has also been accused of attacking another homeless person with a knife in Downtown Memphis, court documents show. 

The announcement comes after reports that MPD Assistant Chief Shawn Jones lives in Georgia and has voted twice in the state this year.

A warrant was issued for the arrest of Demarion Tackett after he did not appear for a hearing to revoke his bond filed by prosecutors. 

Memphis City Council will consider a November ballot question that will impact the city’s suburbs and separately, the future of Liberty Park.

A teacher at Southwest Tennessee Community College has said that the incident has shut down everything, even the copy machines.

LeMoyne-Owen is expecting an approximately 30% enrollment increase this fall.

A three-term Collierville alderman will not run in the next election, saying the timing is right to spend more time with family. 

Jerry Lee Lewis’ Cadillac comes home, Baptist uses AI for lung scans and the Bears of Summer are back.

For Memphis newcomers, the idea of an “alien prince” who calls the Bluff City home may seem stranger than fiction. During his brushes with the law and various elections, Mongo would often wear green body paint, a silver wig and a loincloth — but never any shoes.