Four kids were killed in a fire, a teen is charged with killing the watermelon man and Pride may be different this year.

In recent weeks, the search for a new Memphis-Shelby County Schools superintendent has fallen apart, and the board will discuss next steps at a Thursday, June 1, retreat. 

Although enforcement of the state’s Adult Entertainment Act is under a temporary restraining order until June 6, organizers of this year’s Memphis Pride Festival say they’ve made some changes to the entertainment to ensure performers’ safety.

A man has been detained after two 4-year-olds, a 6-year-old and a 2-year-old were killed in a fire in South Memphis. 

Germantown Middle’s principal will go back to Collierville’s school district, where she previously taught sixth grade.

John Materna, 76, died on Monday, May 29, two weeks after he was shot during a May 15 robbery while selling watermelons at Homer Street and Wayne Avenue in The Heights neighborhood.

The man is charged with aggravated robbery, carjacking, two counts of aggravated assault on a first responder, employment of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony and evading arrest in auto. 

MSCS could meet with banned activists, Groove On-Demand will groove on and Germantown is keeping drivers’ eyes on the road. 

In a crowded mayoral race where a plurality will win, the former mayor is staking his claim to being tough-on-crime. 

“I do keep telling myself that, 100 years from now, this will be another great Calvary story in the lore.”

The original service zone of Downtown and New Chicago was expanded to include Presidents Island and areas of South Memphis.

Memphis Police officers were responding to a call about a carjacking of a Chevrolet Trailblazer in the 700 block of Eastern Drive. 

The City of Memphis pushed back the opening of its public pools a week this summer, partly due to a nationwide lifeguard shortage. 

The council scorecard looks at two key votes at the May 16 council session, both on issues connected to the October Memphis ballot.

Mandy Gunasekara’s effort to be on the August ballot for public service commissioner in Mississippi’s Northern District could be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Those who died this weekend were a man at a Downtown Exxon gas station and a man in North Memphis. Two children, a 2-year-old and a 15-year-old, were among those wounded.

“That’s an entitled bunch there,” Bruce McMullen said to U.S. District Judge Mark Norris. “That holds no credibility at all. One person is on Earth, and the other is on another planet.”

“I always use an analogy when people say this is not a ‘real college.' If your air conditioning unit stops working in the middle of the summer, are you going to call someone with a doctorate degree or are you going to call someone with an HVAC license?”

Alexis Pugh reduced shelter euthanasia rates, Regional One could be a first and Bhan Thai goes Vietnamese.

The current board attorney reports to the district’s interim superintendent who is a finalist for the permanent position. Because of that, some have questioned if the board needs independent representation while it searches for a new superintendent.

As a child, Jennifer Dobbs and her little brother were separated from their parents in China when the Japanese invaded. Her memoir was named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books in 2022.

Being the director of Memphis Animal Shelter isn’t easy in a poor city where animals are often inexpensive security systems, companions in unfenced yards or are owned by people who can’t afford spay/neutering or rabies shots.

Cameras installed across Memphis and Shelby County can identify and alert law enforcement to vehicles connected to crimes, like missing person cases. Critics say the cameras, which are tied into a national network of surveillance, threaten the privacy of citizens.