The race for the vacant Memphis City Council District 4 seat has already drawn four contenders, including the sister of a council member who gave up the seat following her victory in the August county elections.
Mike Miller plans to open his fourth Let It Fly next summer, in Southaven’s Silo Square.
Neighborhood leaders got together during a press conference Tuesday, Aug. 16, to respond to the recent slaying of Yvonne Nelson, a community leader who led the Whitehaven Development Corporation and wrote community news for years.
The grant from Knight, which is a leader in supporting local news initiatives nationwide, marks a major vote of confidence in The Daily Memphian’s subscriber-first model of nonprofit news.
This week’s Inked covers news on the Brooks Museum’s new Downtown location, an 80,000-square-foot office real estate transaction in East Memphis and the Kiwi and Goji apartments up for sale.
Collierville alderman Billy Patton has decided to seek another term, three days before the filing deadline.
Two juvenile victims were transported to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in critical condition.
The Shelby County Clerk’s office will close to deal with a new kind of backlog, a ceiling collapse at Cummings sent three to the hospital and a Whitehaven advocate was killed over the weekend.
The Shelby County Commission votes on the problems in the County Clerk’s office, a $350 million commitment to rebuilding Regional One Health and the return of pay raises and bonuses for a consecutive year in county government.
The community advocate and former journalist was shot to death Saturday night in Raleigh.
The Memphis VA Healthcare System, which provides health care for military veterans in a three-state region, marked its centennial Monday at the Memphis VA Medical Center.
Wanda Halbert says the office will be closed to the public during these periods.
Construction work could begin in September for the facility near Germantown Road at Winchester Road.
Three faculty members were transported to the hospital, but no students were injured. The school closed for the day and children were taken to Metropolitan Baptist Church.
Eduard Rodriguez Tabora, 20, was one of three suspects charged in the carjacking that led to Rev. Autura Eason-Williams’ death.
Memphis-Shelby County Schools has been named a Level 5 district under the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System, a tool that helps measure student academic growth over time.
The state’s abortion ban is expected to drive up maternal mortality rates, Germantown reviews park safety after a drowning death and local churches send a heartfelt message to mass shooting victims in Alabama.
Fabric banner includes loving messages for a grieving congregation in Alabama that has strong ties to Memphis.
“If you think abortion access going away does not affect you, you’re going to be mistaken, because this falls out into all areas of medicine,” said a Tennessee OB-GYN.
This season, he’s won the most money of any player in the history of the PGA Tour without actually winning a tournament. Now he has that tournament title, along with a lead in the FedEx Cup standings.
The City Council Scorecard tracks the council votes that killed a bid for city primaries and sent a One Beale financial backstop to the mayor’s office even though the mayor says he won’t act on it.
By the end of the year, the Memphis Police Department hopes to add 10 officers to its traffic division, and the highway patrol plans to put 20 officers on Shelby County interstates.
“Two signature events that bring lots of people to town who spend millions and millions of dollars in our community,” said Kevin Kane of Memphis Tourism.
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention said Friday that several of the denomination’s major entities are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice in the wake of its multiple problems related to clergy sex abuse.
Despite its smaller size and location — tucked away just inside the front doors of the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library — the bookstore strives to be “a community resource.”