“Once it passes into history,” said a fan, “we will have lost another unique part of what makes Midtown, Midtown.” 

Memphis City Council member Dr. Jeff Warren dipped his toe across the city-county dividing line when he waded into a discussion about building a new jail instead of a new Regional One Health campus.

Operation Rolling Thunder resulted in 160 arrests, including 50 known gang members, according to the Memphis Police Department. But MPD only revealed names of 49 people who it said were arrested during the operation.

A three-hour weather delay before the start of Saturday’s game and a loss to the Arlington Renegades didn’t deter fans who say Showboats are the best entertainment value in town.

Medals will be sent out for the top times, but the cash prizes will not be given.

Following the U.S. Department of Justice’s scathing report highlighting police abuses of power, Memphis Mayor Paul Young said the city would not enter into any federal consent decree with the DOJ.

The Memphis Area Association of Realtors Commercial Council Make-A-Wish Golf Tournament is the largest donor event to Make-A-Wish Mid-South outside of events curated by the nonprofit. 

The Orpheum High School Music Theatre Awards took place Thursday, May 22, at the Orpheum Theatre in Downtown Memphis.

TBI’s investigation into the shooting is still ongoing, at the request of Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy.

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The man accused in a citywide shooting spree in September 2022, in which he allegedly killed three people and wounded three others, will return to court in July to receive a new trial date.

The summertime Art for All digital pass gives kids free, unlimited entry to a dozen Memphis area museums. It joins the physical Art for All card that offers one-time admission to 30 attractions all year long.

City Council wants to slash MATA funding, Riverside Drive is going on a diet and we’ve got the tea, er, juice on a new shop at Crosstown. 

New budget proposal relies on rosy projections, cutting MATA funding in half and extending ongoing hiring freeze.

A Thursday evening confrontation between a person armed with a knife and Bartlett police led to a fatal shooting, officials said.

The closure, which was a surprise to at least one group planning an October event at the hotel, comes as the school’s contract with the current hotel vendor comes to an end. 

Tennessee has executed Oscar Smith for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife Judith Smith and her sons Jason and Chad Burnett.

The scorecard tracks how the city’s representatives voted in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill now goes to the U.S. Senate where the state’s two U.S. senators have already indicated they favor it.

Before the April 28 fire at the Downtown church, there were fires at the Memphis home of the nonprofit’s leader and another in East Tennessee at a property owned by her family.

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A stretch of Riverside Drive will be closed to allow for the construction of what it is calling a road-diet conversion.

Patel calls Memphis the ‘homicide capital,’ cops bring the Thunder in crime crackdown and the new Regional One is a few steps closer.

Construction begins on the public Montessori school’s $7.5 million expansion, revamping Southwest Tennessee Community College’s former Gill Campus building into a middle school with a kitchen and workshop for students.

The Memphis and Shelby County Economic Development Growth Engine committed the money to build an economic development plan for South Memphis neighborhoods. 

Shelby County has closed on the office building and warehouse on the site of The Commercial Appeal’s former 16-acre campus at 495 Union Ave.

Lausanne is among a handful of K-12 schools in the U.S. responding to international demand for Western partners in education.

The fire that destroyed the Clayborn Temple last month was set intentionally, the Memphis Fire Department said in an X post Wednesday afternoon.