Starting Monday, Dec 20, candidates in the May 3 Shelby County primaries can begin filing qualifying petitions to get on the ballot. And there are some changes in the partisan primaries this year.

Pianist who survived being shot five times holds recitals in hopes of inspiring people to see something positive beyond the violence in the city. 

Families deal with grief as homicides of loved ones have not been solved. 

The proposed political map, which was unveiled Friday, Dec., 17, takes one seat away from Shelby County, while adding three to Middle Tennessee. 

The MPD has gone from 2,449 officers a decade ago to slightly more than 1,900 today. The problem is national but also unique to Memphis in some ways.

For many people, the expectations of the holiday season are simply too much. And if they become overwhelmed, they might just call the Memphis Crisis Center, where volunteers are waiting and listening. 

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.