This Week in Memphis: Museum honors MLK and interstates get tidier
Also happening this week: There’s a new face on the Shelby County Commission.
Also happening this week: There’s a new face on the Shelby County Commission.
Amid the phase-out of the penny, a resolution seeks help from the Tennessee Legislature to change state laws that don’t allow court clerks to round up or down the amounts they collect in court fines and fees.
After more than a year of back-and-forth on a controversial proposal to track the immigration status of Tennessee students, two dueling versions of the bill have stalled in the General Assembly.
The march began peacefully at Robert R. Church Park, but confrontations with police at the end of the day led to arrests. Two of the arrested marchers have been released, but two others remain in custody.
More than 1,000 bowlers of all skill levels gathered over the last two weekends to raise funds for Junior Achievement at the organization’s annual “Bowling on the River” Bowl-A-Thon.
Attorneys for RowVaughn Wells, Nichols’ mother, filed a motion to dismiss the five officers from the nearly 3-year-old civil rights lawsuit.
Guests were evacuated from the Peabody Hotel Downtown on Saturday morning after a fire was reported in the laundry room.
The change in who runs the detention center on a daily basis began this past October — about the time the Memphis Safe Task Force began operations locally.
Danell Maxwell is accused of wounding Memphis police Oscar Torres-Molina.
SCO’s history dates back to 1932, and it is the only optometry school in Tennessee.
Airport board isn’t worried about a takeover, Frayser is turning 200 and we sample almost everything at Kuya.
This weekend brings a lot of opportunities to get outside. But it starts with a focus on the interior.
Two Memphis Republicans are backing legislation to block Tennessee school districts from funding lawsuits that oppose accountability measures like state interventions.
The appraisals for the two data centers help to determine how much Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company will pay in property taxes.
The approval comes days after a crash at LaGuardia Airport in which an Air Canada plane taxiing down the runway struck a fire truck, killing the two pilots on board.
Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Ray Lepone sentenced Julio Hernandez, 21, to five years in prison for vehicular homicide.
Two more resign from UTHSC, a “headquarters-worthy property” is up for grabs and you can help name the new hockey team.
Regional One, which many longtime Memphians may still call the Med, can trace its roots back to 1829.
About a dozen campuses run by Memphis-Shelby County Schools will be subject to more academic scrutiny over the next year as officials work to improve the schools’ F letter grades.
The incident happened in July 2023, when Hernandez, behind the wheel of a stolen car, blew through the red light going an estimated 88 mph.
This fourth-annual showcase helps students “get on the road to success financially and in their adult life.”
The number of people who have resigned from the program grows amid abuse allegations that school officials allegedly refused to address.
The 2023 lawsuit, filed by Friends for our Riverfront and others, challenging the new Memphis Art Museum Downtown has hit another barrier.
Local control of Tennessee’s airports would be grounded if a bill that would give airport-board appointment power to a handful of state lawmakers glides through both chambers.
“I heard three to four. And then another burst and then another. It was probably about 15-20 shots. It was a lot. And everybody was running,” said a resident.