The Early Word: New opportunity zone; plus, 20-somethings have time to burn for barbecue record
Which football players are going where, who is in at EDGE and we hear about Horton.
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.
White makes the Democratic primary race a three-way contest with the winner in May expected to challenge Republican DA Amy Weirich in the August county general elections.
State Rep. Torrey Harris said the boundaries of state Rep. London Lamar’s district were extended by several blocks, just enough to include his home at South McLean Boulevard and Union Avenue, according to a tentative map House Republicans allowed him to see.
“It was very important for (the board) to show appreciation for our folks in what has been a very difficult year,” Superintendent Gary Lilly said.
A special Memphis City Council meeting called to resolve a labor contract impasse was settled before the 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 14, start of the session.
Criminal Court Judge Paula Skahan took under advisement Tuesday, Dec. 14, two days of testimony in a hearing that will determine whether Pervis Payne serves two life sentences concurrently or consecutively for the 1987 murders of Charisse Christopher and her 2-year-old daughter, Lacie, in Millington
The seven-year-old venue beneath a manmade hill on Tom Lee Park’s north end is a separate project from the $61 million renovation of the park.
A proposed lake off Mud Island would be north of I-40 and the Hernando DeSoto Bridge.
Coronavirus closes a door at Southwest, we’ve got odds on a new city administrator in Germantown and four entire schools get transferred. Plus, pizza and cheesecake.
Southwest Tennessee Community College is focusing on rebuilding its enrollment after a 24% drop during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The inmate’s 1988 death sentence was set aside because of questions about his mental competency. The resentencing hearing continues Tuesday, Dec. 14.
The Tuesday afternoon meeting should be short with the labor contract impasse the only item on the agenda. The meeting technically continues last week’s meeting, which was recessed to allow for the special meeting.
Frayser Achievement Elementary School, Corning Achievement Elementary School, Georgian Hills Achievement Elementary School and Whitney Achievement School will rejoin SCS for the 2022-2023 school year.
Thousands more are without heat, water after tornadoes devastate area.
This weekend included a deadly tornado, the local emergence of Omicron and a devastating loss for the Tigers.
The Monday, Dec. 13, resentencing in Shelby County Criminal Court comes after prosecutors took the death penalty off the table in a retrial for a 1987 double murder in Millington. At stake is whether the life sentences will run consecutively or concurrently. If concurrently, Payne would be eligible for parole.