A Michigan City, Mississippi, resident faces up to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to aiming a laser pointer at aircraft, the U.S. attorney’s office said. 

Positive COVID tests among the staff at Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen have temporarily closed the popular East Memphis restaurant.

Where are some of the best holiday displays in Shelby County? We’ve got a map. 

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris plans to offer bonuses to recruit corrections and homeland security officers in county government, he said on “Behind The Headlines.” 

Brown Missionary Baptist Church, which is based in DeSoto County, is hosting a Gas Up for Blessings event in Frayser, Saturday, Dec. 18.

The Daily Memphian has hired an investigations editor who’s a seasoned investigative editor and reporter with more than 20 years of experience and a passel of awards to his credit.

Grand jury indicts local security guard, West Memphis chase leads to Memphis shooting and we could be looking at another COVID Christmas. Plus, gift ideas! 

Family, friends and community leaders honor Young Dolph during public memorial Thursday, Dec. 16 at the FedEx Forum.

The shooting comes a day after a Memphis police officer fatally shot a woman on South Third Street.

The indictment follows a second-degree murder charge filed in August against Gregory Livingston.

Shelby County Health Department Director Michelle Taylor said the holidays could be to blame.

Utility workers for the city-owned utility get pay raises the next four years under the compromise that scrubbed a city council session to break the labor contract impasse. 

Watch the COVID-19 Task Force Briefing live now. 

The University of Memphis is now in the top tier of research universities nationally. 

Memphis International Airport has just landed another flight it’s been chasing for years. 

Which football players are going where, who is in at EDGE and we hear about Horton. 

“Licensure of liars should not be allowed,” one Nashville physician told the state legislature’s Joint Government Operations Committee.

The City Council Scorecard examines the procedural votes that brought a controversial commercial development project and a key intersection back to life after the council killed the project in November on a tie vote.

Althea Greene opened her bid for the District 7 commission seat by saying Tennessee’s new open carry gun law is meant to increase violence and killings. Candidates can begin pulling and filing qualifying petitions in the May primaries, including the commission races, starting Monday.

A coalition led by the University of Memphis was selected as a finalist in the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s Build Back Better Regional Challenge and awarded a $500,000 planning grant. 

It’s the fourth officer-involved shooting in Memphis and Shelby County this year and the 53rd officer-involved shooting in Tennessee this year.

The honorary street name was approved by the Memphis City Council at a meeting earlier this month. 

Gov. Bill Lee bumped up the starting annual salary for corrections officers from $32,500 to $44,500.

Terminix to get new ownership, we talk to Rhodes’ incoming president and a redistricting plan raises eyebrows.

Jennifer Collins sat down with The Daily Memphian to talk about who she is and what she plans to do in her presidency.