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.

“A final inventory cannot be completed until this remaining pipework is delivered to Boston, but we are hopeful that it contains everything that is missing,” the church said in an Instagram post. 

“All I can say is Sam was a great dog,” said Richard Clark. “The stuff that he did, I can’t take credit for.”

Mayoral contender and Downtown Memphis Commission president Paul Young drew a crowd of around 150 Saturday, May 27, to his campaign headquarters at Poplar Plaza — the first among the contenders.

He helped perfect the early science of lipids, the fats in the blood that cause high blood pressure and strokes. The clinic he started at the VA Medical Center in 1985 is busier than ever. 

Officials envision the new entity — the name UT Health was floated — as a hub of innovation that would attract top medical talent, grow research opportunities and offer new therapies, specialized surgeries and access to clinical trials.

Protestors made familiar demands Saturday, chanting “no justice, no peace” and holding neon signs.

A call to the Memphis Police Department resulted in the arrests of four men after what the family said was a case of mistaken identity that led to a physical altercation with police.

The Works and Big Green recently gave away 100 raised garden beds for free, complete with seeds, starters, a watering can, fertilizer and more than 60 pounds of soil. 

The Youth Villages program has partnered with Renardo Baker, who was already embedded in the community, to reach out to the neighborhood’s most high-risk residents.