Farmington Elementary student Josh Verma hopes to be the fourth Memphis-area student to win the whole thing.

Just in time for summer break, Memphis River Parks Partnership and Literacy Mid-South officially unveiled the city’s first free public storybook trail.

Among Gov. Lee’s five appointments to a Memphis schools takeover board are a former Memphis superintendent and former president of the Memphis Chamber.

Two longtime Memphis events return this weekend, right in time for Memorial Day. 

A planned execution is halted, a Cooper-Young restaurant building is for sale and the Tigers baseball team keeps winning.

The second-place finisher in one of the MSCS board Democratic primaries — the closest race in the May 5 county primaries — is reportedly weighing a recount.

A judge filed a legal memo a week after his May 14 decision to deny a motion for a temporary pause in implementing the state’s new congressional map. 

A Chancery Court in Nashville heard arguments Thursday on a request for a temporary injunction in relation to Tennessee’s new congressional map.

Tony Carruthers was granted a yearlong reprieve after his planned execution was halted on Thursday, May 21.

In the latest incident, task force agents responded to a call at a Memphis-area residence Wednesday evening.

More than a month ago, Marion police sergeant Darrell Prewitt became the victim of a high-speed collision on I-40. These days, however, he’s back on two healthy legs.

Novel workers vote to unionize, an immigrants-rights group sues state troopers and Memphis names its first poet laureate.

Attendees gathered at Downtown’s Cossitt Library to honor the three finalists for the poet laureate role.

Earlier in May, xAI (now a part of SpaceX) announced a deal with Anthropic, the company behind the popular artificial intelligence chatbot Claude.

The suit challenges what it describes as an “increasingly commonplace” practice of THP troopers teaming up with federal immigration agents to stop Memphis and Nashville motorists in order to investigate their immigration status. 

Medical experts say use of out-of-date chemicals and drugs for lethal injections raises risk of prolonged and painful death.

With the completion of all levels of school campuses, Lakeland School System’s board concentrates growth in its $37.8 million budget on benefits for teachers and students.

Redistricting fight brings out the big guns, the ex-MATA CEO wants her job back and Novel workers may form a union.

At Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South, fifth- and sixth-grade students get to practice #adulting. 

Eric Gottlieb has been granted a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach and conduct research at the University of Primorska in Europe.

Hendricks is resigning about six months before the end of the term as his family will relocate. He was appointed to the GMSD board in 2025 to finish the term of Dr. Daniel Chatham.

Bacarra Mauldin is alleging “wrongful termination, unpaid wages and tortious interference,” according to the case docket in Shelby County Chancery Court.

The ACLU of Tennessee brings in outside attorneys to argue against new congressional map as another case gets reassigned and the NAACP calls for a boycott of college sports in eight states in reaction to redistricting.

The Robertson Family Aquatic Center opens with a promise of a place to cool down this summer and a mission to prevent drownings among youths. 

Memphis-Shelby County Schools changed its plan for all third graders to retake the statewide exam days before summer break.