It took one vote to elect the new County Commission chair and four to elect the chair pro tempore. In between was the usual commission intrigue and grievances.

A new Memphis-Shelby County Schools committee met for the first time Wednesday, Aug. 13, to guide looming decisions on school closures and consolidations, plus plans for repurposing facilities and building new ones. 

A man accused of sexually soliciting minors in a Germantown park waived his preliminary hearing in the suburb’s court.

Ezekiel Kelly pleaded guilty to all 28 charges he was facing, which included three counts of first-degree murder and the commission of an act of terrorism.

FedEx exec leaves with big bucks, two Downtown hotels are merging and a man breaks the Oreo record at Jack Brown’s.

Memphis Area Transit Authority officials have said it’s possible to make the Downtown trolley system operational again. But there are a lot of questions to answer before the trolleys start rolling down the tracks. 

In a contentious and confusing meeting Tuesday night, the Mason Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted to reopen the 600-bed West Tennessee Detention Facility for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to use for immigrants.

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“My time as a member of Congress is not my calling card for this job,” the Republican Congressman from Cookeville said of his run for Tennessee Governor.

Mason is within 10 miles of the BlueOval City campus, where Ford is manufacturing its new electric pickups and BlueOval SK batteries for the truck.

The man accused of going on a city-wide shooting spree in 2022 plans to plead guilty, his lawyer told The Daily Memphian.

Results from the audit could chart a path for state legislation to take over Memphis-Shelby County Schools. New documents reveal what firm is doing the audit and what they may be looking for.

Tennesee’s only Democratic U.S. Congressman also gave his support to a Memphis City Council member’s run for governor.

Last week, a group of the city’s librarians showed up at Memphis City Council, unannounced, to ask for a change to their employment. 

School-board shake-up is delayed, the zoo’s male lion dies and Magnolia & May’s owners are up to monkey business. 

The Shelby County Commission agreed to start term limits for Memphis-Shelby County Schools board elections with the 2026 election. But it delayed a decision on when to get all those races on the same ballot.

Memphis threw a celebration at FedExForum that was worthy of Fred Smith’s life. Of course, Smith himself might not have liked all the fuss. He would have told us to get back to work.

“He opened doors for generations of entrepreneurs to proudly go through in the Bluff City,” Memphis Mayor Paul Young said. “Fred Smith didn’t just build a company. He built belief.” 

The reset came amid a broader rescheduling of a case that is approaching two-and-a-half years old. 

The victim told The Daily Memphian how the alleged assault began. 

Although not a native Memphian, he was the “face of the Memphis Zoo” for nearly 15 years. 

A Shelby County Circuit Court judge declined to reinstate Marie Feagins to her former position as superintendent of Memphis-Shelby County Schools.

In this episode of The AM/DM podcast, editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips discuss the week ahead.

MATA doesn’t have the money for a trolley return, Bar Hustle’s pizza has a secret and Shadyac has a new gig.

As Bill Lee’s final term nears its end, multiple contenders stepped up for the race for state governor. Plus, this political roundup also explores the Democratic primary race to succeed Wanda Halbert.

MATA does not have enough money to operate the trolleys even as it works to ready vehicles for a potential return.