Longtime leader Ruby Bright retired at the end of 2022. 

Seventeen candidates filed qualifying papers on Tuesday as the DeSoto County election season kicked off for a variety of offices later this year.

Twenty-nine schools in the Memphis-Shelby County Schools district took damage as a result of the recent winter weather storm that swept through the city, MSCS said.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland called it “outrageous” that a person charged with first-degree murder would be so easily released from jail.

Here is all of the information you need to participate in the first local election of 2023. 

MLGW offers text alerts, MSCS tries to keep kids safe and the Memphis Grizzlies are winning again.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools uses a variety of tactics to curb safety incidents at schools, including an established program that pays students cash for information and a new $1 million grant for violence prevention at five specific schools.

In the fall, Shelby County experienced a rough and early flu season, fueled by decreased immunity, an early spike in respiratory illnesses and low vaccination rates. 

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital has the region’s primary level 1 pediatric trauma center, the only comprehensive pediatric cerebral palsy clinic within 200 miles and one of the largest pediatric surgical brain tumor programs. 

After 17 years as an assistant U.S. Attorney here, Memphis native Kevin Ritz now has the top job. He is more than prepared, but it is also a different challenge: “It’s hard to be in this chair. But you put the facts and the law together, and you do the right thing.” 

Born Lola Mitchell, Gangsta Boo was an original member of Three 6 Mafia.

Despite this year’s low water levels, many volunteers and onlookers showed up on Sunday to participate in this year’s Ski Freeze Memphis event — including six-time top fuel champion Clay Millican. 

Greyhounds have been racing at Southland since 1956. But Saturday was the last race. The day was a celebration of the end of an era — and for many, the end of a way of life.

Take a walk down memory lane with our collection of 2022 photos from The Daily Memphian.

“I pray that all of us can live in the moment and that we can get some of the best moments we can out of life” in 2023, host Eric Brinson said.

“During the storm, we used text alerts to communicate to 86,940 of our customers,” an MLGW press release said.

The last Memphis City Council Scorecard of 2022 finds the 13-member body unanimous on Klondike revitalization and a tourism surcharge for the city’s convention center hotel. A negotiated settlement of the damage deposit for Memphis In May’s use of the redesigned Tom Lee Park is another matter for another year.

The U of M spring semester starts Jan. 17 but campus reopens for business Jan. 3. It is the second local university to announce damages from the recent winter weather.

Local contractors are seeing and saying similar things: They’re all busy, and they’re all working as quickly as they can.

Gov. Bill Lee granted Oscar Smith a reprieve after finding TDOC failed to properly test lethal injection chemicals, then retained a former federal prosecutor to investigate why it happened.

A suspect is in critical condition after a struggle and shootout with Memphis Police Department officers Friday, Dec. 30.

Most Christian Brothers University students — with the exception of those in the nursing and physician’s assistant programs — are affected by the semester delay.

The New Daisy is coming back, Leonard’s Barbecue will expand to Bartlett and we tell you where to find a good burger for $6.

While these areas might bear the brunt of that area’s aging infrastructure, it’s not limited to them. 

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MLGW lifts boil water advisory

For some areas of southeast and north Shelby County, the advisory lasted six days as MLGW crews dealt with at least 36 water main breaks.