The Early Word: Mastry alleges racism in firing; xAI got MLGW cutoff notices
MSCS responds to new immigration rules, a Tigers jokester gets serious and JJJ is a vlogger.
MSCS responds to new immigration rules, a Tigers jokester gets serious and JJJ is a vlogger.
Meet Brandon LaGrone II and Redding Jackson. Both interns will work on general news assignments.
With more than 40 years in the homebuilding industry, Magnolia Homes is celebrating 15 years of its Showcase of Homes event, held the weekends of Sept. 19-21 and Sept. 26-28 in four of its communities.
According to copies of its bills, MLGW has sent xAI at least three notices that its electric and water service could be cut off.
Also happening this week, the City Council takes up its gun-control trigger ordinance and a new program for entrepreneurs launches.
Memphis River Parks Partnership officials announce plans to honor Lee, who on May 8, 1925, pulled 32 survivors of a capsized steamship to shore, making five trips and working by lantern light.
The latest incident began Thursday when jailers found an inmate unresponsive after experiencing a “medical emergency,” according to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. The inmate was taken to Methodist University Hospital and died Friday afternoon.
A violent week in Memphis left crime scenes across the city. Several of those had multiple victims.
A series of changes in the leadership of Memphis-Shelby County Schools may be giving way to a more gradual but no less profound series of changes within the district.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water, which serves the Memphis metro area, is TVA’s largest customer.
If ICE officials come to school campuses, Memphis-Shelby County Schools officials have directed principals to ask for identification, the purpose for visiting and whether the official has a warrant or other documents.
Shelby County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Anthony Buckner also said another inmate was found unresponsive at the jail Friday, Jan. 31, after experiencing a “medical emergency” overnight.
County wants more control over MSCS funds, broken jail doors will take two years to fix and another big live music venue is on the way.
Shelby County Commissioner Mickell Lowery said on “Behind The Headlines” that he would like to see the commission have line-item control of MSCS spending.
Throughout the past week, pairs of elected officials have toured FedExForum two by two, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
Memphis Mayor Paul Young discussed crime, blight and debt, but also called on Memphians to “say yes” to promoting the city and working toward goals of economic growth for all.
The Tennessee House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that creates a state Centralized Immigration Enforcement Division and makes it a class E felony for local officials to vote in favor of sanctuary city policies.
Germantown leaders submitted three names to administration before appointing Scotty Hendricks Jr. to school board. He was the only name to appear on the list of all five aldermen.
The 636 doors, which operate on a sliding mechanism, have failed repeatedly throughout the last year, leading to a rise in inmate-on-inmate assaults and assaults against jail staff.
The House and the Senate passed the Education Freedom Act, legislation championed by Gov. Bill Lee.
The Memphis-based PGA Tour event’s Positively Memphis Community Fund will aid local organizations with grants ranging from $1,000 to $25,000.
State lawmakers push ahead immigration bill, Tigers football coaches are in the money and a 10-year-old is Corky’s No. 1 fan.
Tennessee lawmakers fast-tracked Gov. Bill Lee’s $5.5 million proposal to create a state immigration division and allocate funding for training grants for local law enforcement agencies seeking immigration agreements to cooperate with federal authorities.
“Tennessee students did well relative to other states, and we did better than some of our neighbors,” Education Commissioner Lizzette Reynolds said.
A week before Thanksgiving, a local real estate agent got a call to look for a 16-acre site close to the Medical District.
Memphis police said, at 3:32 p.m., officers responded to a shooting in the 900 block of College Park Drive, north of the Soulsville area.