Last month, more than 300,000 Tennesseans chose from four new license plates designed by Memphis-based digital marketing agency Speak Creative. We now know the winning selection.

Police said five people were in the home when three to four men kicked in the front door and ordered those in the home not to look at them.

The Shelby County Health Department reported 256 new coronavirus cases and 19 new coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday, Oct. 6. 

The FedExForum has a false alarm at Grizz’s first game, Broadway ‘comes from away’ back to Memphis and a COVID pill could be close. 

Think of it as Tamiflu for COVID.

Two Memphis organizations providing meals to children in the summer of 2020 billed the state for meals they didn’t serve. Federally funded food programs have been susceptible to fraud for years.

The council also delayed action on several resolutions awarding federal American Rescue Plan Act funding allocated for the council’s uses. 

The City Council approved the pipeline right-of-way ordinance on the first of three votes Tuesday, Oct. 5. It covers the entire city, requiring a permitting process for any work done beneath or across city streets. 

MPD officer accused of sexual assault is back on the force after charges were dropped and record cleared. 

City Council members took a test vote of sorts in committee sessions on a proposal to make pay of $21 an hour the minimum for getting tax breaks from EDGE. The new Ford plant in Haywood County came up in the discussion.

The council is on record opposing TVA’s plan to truck coal ash from the old Allen Fossil Plant to a landfill in Capleville. The Tuesday council committee discussion also ventured into TVA’s role in the Blue Oval City Ford battery plant. 

U.S. Marshals arrest man accused in fatal shooting of Rhodes student Drew Rainer. 

The county’s redistricting effort is on its third and fourth proposed maps of what the new boundaries could look like for the 13 County Commission districts going into the 2022 elections. A “Poplar-Midtown corridor” in the East Memphis district caused a lot of debate. 

A taste of Topgolf is coming, a national group is helping care for Collierville and Memphis landmarks are getting new looks.

The $4.9 million in funding would replace much, but not all, of the 55-year old structure’s exterior marble veneer.

City Chief Operating Officer Doug McGowen talked with The Daily Memphian about the factors that led the city and zoo to return to a parking plan that would take some of the Overton Park greensward and several trees. Listen to the interview.

A private Monday evening gathering was held to honor Andrew Rainer, who was a 2018 graduate of Christian Brothers High School and was the chaplain for his fraternity, Sigma Nu.

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More than 20 routes will be impacted by MATA’s new slate of changes. 

A woman was also injured during the robbery. 

A national organization has partnered with local groups to help with the fundraising for those affected by the mass shooting at the Collierville Kroger.

Why Ford chose the Memphis Megasite, Shelby Farms hosts the inaugural St. Jude IRONMAN triathlon and the Grizzlies hold an open practice to show their basketball and dancing skills. 

“People don’t understand why they are being asked to name people. They don’t understand the whole role of contact tracing,” said Dr. Rebecca Wurtz, director of Public Health Administration and Policy at the University of Minnesota. 

Three federal judges have said the mask opt-out order is unlawful, but analysts say it doesn’t matter. Lee can still say he tried.

Elementary school children in the area received free bikes with bike safety training lessons, free swimming lessons and swim safety curriculum as part of the event. 

The Memphis Police Department is still on scene investigating the crime.