Crime data and student voices suggest campus safety initiatives are making a measurable impact.

As a child, Marquinne Yancey struggled to learn how to swim. Decades later, she not only has overcome that hurdle, but is headed to the Senior Olympics regional competition.

Also happening this week: Germantown wraps up budget season, and Lamar Alexander is in town.

Lowery in Eads, Taylor in Piperton. The political roundup is on the campaign trail and includes a D.C. roundup with reaction to the memorandum of understanding with Iran.

Where the pavement ends on Memphis’ western edge, a police Harbor Patrol Unit navigates the unpredictable Mississippi River as the city’s last line of defense.

The White Station High alumnus took an unconscious, face-first fall into a fire pit with a vat of boiling water hovering over the flames. Now he’s recovered and grateful for the adventure.

The Shelby County Commission is looking at a possible tax increase while the Memphis City Council is expected to keep the city’s tax rate the same. 

Memphis police officer Daniel Adams killed in single-vehicle accident, officials say

The festival included local food from Robinson Smokehouse (a local BBQ food truck), health education from Baptist Health Sciences University, Baptist Memorial Health Care and Vitalant with the Sickle Cell Foundation and live music from local artists like Ekpe and the African Jazz Ensemble.

The Local Card will help generate publicity for Memphis-area restaurants and offer deals for customers, “creating a win-win for everybody,” said This is Memphis co-founder Gabriel Kisber.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools and Shelby County government allege Tennessee’s school takeover law unconstitutionally targets Memphis.

A Memphis music producer is found dead, an aviation school is flying into Millington and a state department is fighting AI fakery.

This weekend feels like a solidly summer affair, with a screening of “Jaws” at the Orpheum Theatre, a car show at Graceland and Memphis Brewfest at Shelby Farms Park. 

The new board overseeing Memphis-Shelby County Schools convened for the first time Thursday — in Nashville, with little notice, at 8:45 a.m. If the hope was to win over conflicted Memphians, this was a bizarre way to start.

Alvin Myles Jr. was sentenced after a four-day trial.

Only one in 20 travelers could identify a real photo of a Tennessee outdoor tourism spot when shown alongside an AI-generated image. Here’s how the state’s Department of Tourist Development plans to counter that.

Hardaway, who was appointed to the District 93 seat in time for May’s special legislative session, announced his bid for a full two-year term.

The election is Aug; 6. The Shelby County Election Commission is preparing to mail out notices to inform county voters of their new congressional districts.

Appointees have sweeping powers over decisions of the elected board and the district until 2030. But Thursday’s decisions focused more on establishing the new board’s own systems and operations rather than decisions about MSCS business — including who will lead the district.

Collierville’s chicken fight continues, MLGW is trying to keep our lights on and a Binghampton cafe says goodbye.

And, also, what does the Shelby County General Sessions Court Clerk do? 

Pitt and Barbara Hyde didn’t want their name on the new Memphis Art Museum. That didn’t stop Memphis mayor Paul Young from highlighting the couple’s astounding work. “For a generation you have led with generosity and vision,” Young said. “And your mark on the city — on Downtown in particular — is everywhere.”

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The Daily Memphian’s Geoff Calkins sat down with Barbara and Pitt Hyde to talk about the new museum, their hands-on approach to civic projects and why Memphis continues to be — in their words — their “big bet.”

Memphis Light, Gas and Water is taking steps to make the broader electric grid more resilient. 

General Sessions Court judges suspended their clerk with pay two days after she made her first court appearance on federal theft, wire fraud and money laundering charges.

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