A new plan for a local crime lab would focus on three specific areas with an estimated annual cost of $5.5 million. Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and District Attorney General Steve Mulroy took the plan to Shelby County Commissioners Wednesday, June 4.

Collierville won’t stop the party, FedEx pilots are “fed up,” and one man made a difference at Barksdale.

Memphis came in second behind San Francisco, which saw 764 car thefts per 100,000 people.

The century-old congregation would move from its current sanctuary to a new church at the corner of Poplar Avenue. 

A man who robbed a woman in an Olive Branch park a year ago has pleaded guilty to numerous charges and faces a sentence totaling 35 years.

One determined diner with a handmade sign helped bring all-day breakfast back to Barksdale.

Kyree, who competed for the U.S. at the 2024 Paris Olympics, captured the 200 title at the 2021 Ed Murphey Classic.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has operated the West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center since 2014. 

The city has hired a Sherton hotel consultant, and it wants to shield DOJ records from the Tyré Nichols lawsuit. Plus, we’ve got a look at what to eat at the Germantown horse show. 

For the past several months, Memphis City Councilman Jeff Warren has been giving tours of Methodist University Hospital. His goal is simple: Convince the community it doesn’t need to spend $1 billion on a new campus for Regional One. 

Last year, the City of Memphis issued about $30 million in debt to buy the hotel — and is already making payments — but the sale hasn’t been finalized. 

The city wants to use the Department of Justice’s retreat from its civil rights investigation of the MPD as a tool to fight the lawsuit stemming from Nichols’ January 2023 beating and death at the hands of five now-former Memphis police officers. 

The full commission has one more voting meeting on June 23 to approve an operating budget, a capital budget and set the county property-tax rate before the fiscal year begins.

The claims offer the 18-month, $487,500 payout described in Feagins’ contract as an alternative outcome to returning her to the school district’s superintendent seat. 

The sentencing dates come less than a month after Bean, Haley and Smith were acquitted of all charges at the state level.

Man’s body was recovered from the Wolf, the West Tennessee forensic center’s future is uncertain and Jerrod Smith is not throwing away his shot.

Sand, silt and clay is essential to rebuilding — or, at this point, maintaining — the fragile coastline that has been receding for decades. But less than 10% of the Mississippi River’s sediment reaches the critical Bird’s Foot Delta. 

Wherever you go, be safe, watch out for others and make sure to do at least one cannonball off the diving board.

John Zeanah’s new role with the City of Memphis boils down to an essential question: “How do we best pull the levers of city government in order to advance goals for housing, for community development, for economic development?”

Smiley jumped in the river to rescue a drowning child on Friday before being swept away by currents that officials estimated were as fast as 6 mph.

Also happening this week: The Shelby County Commission meets, but don’t expect any major decisions about the county budget.

About half of those incarcerated in the Shelby County Corrections Center don’t have high school diplomas, according to The Goodwill Excel Center, which is expanding its adult learning programs into the prison. 

Five cars were involved in the deadly collision on Interstate 240 near the Hollywood exit that backed up traffic for four hours, police say.

A grassroots organizer emerged as the winner over a retired businessman and party activist.