A top aide to Shelby County Property Assessor Melvin Burgess says opposition to a two-year reappraisal cycle among the county’s seven mayors two years ago has changed as local governments take a revenue hit on sales ratio calculations.
A new Memphis mayoral poll showed former Mayor Willie Herenton leading the crowded field but with almost half of the voters undecided four months ahead of Election Day.
Both suspects in the Huey’s shooting face numerous charges, not just from that incident.
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.”
Five activists are currently banned from attending Memphis-Shelby County Schools board meetings; the school district says it is trying to set up a meeting with the activists to come to some sort of resolution.
Board members were to vote to rebid the current cleaning contract and award it to four vendors instead of one, or bring cleaning services in house. They didn’t.
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.