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    Tennessee General Assembly 2024 session preview, part 2: criminal justice bills

    Other than Gov. Bill Lee’s proposal to expand private school vouchers, legislation intended to fight crime is likely to be the General Assembly’s biggest focus in its 2023 legislative session, which begins Tuesday.

    By Ian Round January 08, 2024
  • Premium Public Safety

    One year later: Where do the Tyre Nichols cases stand now?

    Five former Memphis Police Department officers received state and federal charges for their alleged roles in Tyre Nichols’ death. They were also named as defendants in a civil wrongful death suit Nichols’ family filed. Here’s where their cases stand.

    By Aarron Fleming January 10, 2024
  • City of Memphis

    Memphians remember Tyre Nichols at one-year anniversary vigil

    “Memphis, we need to get it together here because we going in the wrong direction,” said RowVaughn Wells, Tyre Nichols’ mother, at the one-year anniversary vigil in Hickory Hill. “This is a beautiful city, I used to brag about it. I don’t brag about it anymore.”

    By Kambui Bomani January 10, 2024
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    This Week in Memphis: General Assembly kicks off, Bartlett may part with Memphis library

    Elvis Presley would have been 89 on Monday, Jan. 8. And as always, Graceland is hosting a party. Also this week: The Memphis City Council holds its first meeting since new members were elected.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff January 08, 2024
  • Metro

    Windy weather coming our way

    Hold onto your hat, it’s gonna be breezy Monday afternoon through Tuesday night. The National Weather Service also says there’s a chance of snow Friday evening.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff January 07, 2024
  • Premium Public Safety

    Timeline: The death of Tyre Nichols and what’s happened since

    The weather in Memphis on Jan. 7, 2023, was mild, with clear skies and temperatures in the 50s. But the events of that night created a storm that still hovers over the city.

    By Ben Wheeler January 10, 2024
  • Premium State Government

    Tennessee General Assembly 2024 session preview, part 1

    Lawmakers will return to Nashville on Tuesday, Jan. 9, for the start of the 2024 legislative session. It’s the first time the full General Assembly is back since an August special session on public safety

    By Ian Round January 07, 2024
  • Neighborhoods

    Tillman Sculpture Park under construction in Binghampton

    Carpenter Art Garden and a team of local collaborators are constructing the park on the corner of Princeton Avenue and Tillman Street.

    By Kambui Bomani January 08, 2024
  • Behind The Headlines

    Shelby County mayor affirms support of new school funding

    Mayor Lee Harris offered a preview of the budget proposal he will take to Shelby County commissioners in the spring and refuted speculation that the county is short of the funding needed for new high schools.

    By Bill Dries January 06, 2024
  • Premium Visual Arts

    Black Arts Collective is working to change the canvas at the Brooks

    With the collective’s knowledge and funding, the Brooks will annually present one major exhibition by Black artists and buy at least one work by a Black artist for its permanent collection.

    By Jane Roberts January 08, 2024
  • Premium Public Safety

    A state law has kept an intellectually disabled man in jail for almost a decade

    Johntavius Griggs has been in custody at the Shelby County Jail for more than eight years on a first-degree murder charge in limbo with no clear path forward.

    By Aarron Fleming January 06, 2024
  • Public Safety

    Former officer accused in Tyre Nichols’ death wants trial outside of Memphis

    No attorneys for the officers have yet filed requests to have separate federal trials, so it’s unclear if this motion would apply to all of them if granted.

    By Aarron Fleming January 18, 2024
  • Public Safety

    Indicted corrections officer wants separate trial

    Chelsey Duckett and her co-defendents have been indicted for alleged roles in the death of Gershun Freeman, who died in 2022 after an altercation with the officers at Shelby County Jail.

    By Aarron Fleming January 05, 2024
  • Public Safety

    City’s failure to enforce Nichols ordinances ‘deeply disturbed’ legal team

    Laws passed in the wake of Tyre Nichols’ death instituted new data collection policies for traffic stops; stipulated that only marked police cars make traffic stops, and mandated residents not get pulled over for low-level offenses like faulty brake lights. 

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    Former officer accused in Tyre Nichols’ death wants trial outside of Memphis

    By Samuel Hardiman January 05, 2024
  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: Police chief isn’t a shoo-in; Wanda won’t sign anything

    Young wants to fight crime pandemic-style, Philip Ashley Chocolates are getting more exclusive and Caleb Mills’ knee injury is “not good.”

    By Bianca Phillips January 05, 2024
  • Premium City of Memphis

    ‘I’m on the fence:’ City Council mixed on keeping police chief

    The reappointment of Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis as police chief is among the slew of mayoral appointments that the Memphis City Council is slated to consider at its first meeting of 2024.

    Related content: 

    ‘No tolerance for the chaos:’ Young pledges unified front to fight crime

    By Samuel Hardiman, Bill Dries January 05, 2024
  • State Government

    Three Memphis judges make final cut for state supreme court vacancy

    The Tennessee Supreme Court is looking for a new justice after Justice Roger Page announced his retirement.

    By Aarron Fleming January 04, 2024
  • Premium Behind The Headlines

    Lee Harris on Wanda Halbert: ‘She won’t sign anything’

    “I think it’s time for us to figure out a solution, and it’s hard to believe that the solution is Wanda Halbert as county clerk,” said the Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris on WKNO’s “Behind the Headlines.”

    By Bill Dries January 05, 2024
  • City of Memphis

    ‘No tolerance for the chaos:’ Young pledges unified front to fight crime

    “We hear our citizens loud and clear,” said Memphis Mayor Paul Young. “They want to see action. They want to see us strategizing and figuring out how we’re going to reduce the chaos, the hurt and the pain that we see in our community.”

    By Samuel Hardiman January 04, 2024
  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: Abston jurors, Ja’s dance and what’s brewing on Sundays

    Wiseacre hops on non-alcoholic trend, Southaven’s top cop will retire and Chukis’ chips aren’t free (but they’re worth the price.) 

    By Bianca Phillips January 04, 2024
  • Shelby County

    Retired Tennessee Supreme Court Justice to mediate Freeman civil suit

    The first woman to lead the state’s highest court will oversee negotiations between lawyers for Nicole Freeman and Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr., Chief Jailer Kirk Fields and Shelby County government. 

    By Aarron Fleming January 03, 2024
  • Public Safety

    Cleotha Abston trial will have local jury

    Shelby County Criminal Court Division 7 Judge Lee Coffee made the decision during a motion hearing Wednesday, Jan. 3, after Abston’s attorney filed a change-of-venue motion, specifically requesting a jury from Davidson County.

    By Julia Baker January 03, 2024
  • North Mississippi

    Southaven police chief to retire

    Macon Moore was chosen to lead Southaven’s police department in 2019 following a national search. 

    By Rob Moore January 03, 2024
  • City of Memphis

    Crashes, transmission issue culprit for Christmas power outages

    The holiday’s most extensive outage was caused when part of a high-voltage transmission tower broke, triggering a safety response. 

    By Samuel Hardiman January 03, 2024
  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: Let It Fly goes cold, and Fouché leaves for Hotlanta

    Mark Ward will fill in for suspended judge, Ja Morant hands out a late Christmas gift and we remember Elmore Nickelberry and Tony Bologna.

    By Bianca Phillips January 03, 2024

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