Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris says the number of jail deaths calls for dramatic change that could include the county or the state taking over the county jail currently run by Sheriff Floyd Bonner.

Board members said the company recommended by MSCS leaders has a history of poor service. It’s not the first time custodian contracts have caused issues.

There were some sparks and plenty of claims disputed Wednesday, Dec. 3, during the forum at LeMoyne-Owen College. The same five contenders who showed up last month for a Germantown forum took the stage in Soulsville.

With his bushy mustache and a Stetson on his head, James Wallace didn’t exactly look like a man who literally willed a museum to life, then nurtured its continued existence for nearly three decades afterward.

A founding member of Booker T. and the MGs as well as a songwriter and producer, legendary guitarist Steve Cropper has been inducted into just about every music hall of fame imaginable.

The Memphis City Council addressed its YouTube stream not showing the entirety of the body’s Dec. 2 meeting where a council member compared a proposed firefighter pay raise to rape.

A TBI audit of MPD’s crime statistics yielded no real findings, TBI Director David Rausch wrote in a letter to two Memphis-area legislators. 

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating a shooting by a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper that occurred Wednesday morning, Dec. 3, in the Raleigh-Bartlett area of Memphis.

Library workers may have to reapply for their jobs, the Grizzlies’ luck runs out and The Lobbyist’s tubers are yam good.

Public safety reporter Aarron Fleming recently got an inside look at the day-to-day operations during a ride-along with Warrant Team Bravo, as they moved to find and arrest a homicide suspect. 

MATA’s trustee said rider numbers are up. In other action, council members took steps to stop dumping in the Wolf River Bottoms, but balked at some strong limits suggested for city contracts to manage city parks.

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The comments came as the City Council debated an additional 2% raise for the Memphis Fire Fighters Association.

Dr. Sanjeev Kumar is charged with dozens of medical-related crimes and then billing Medicare and Medicaid to get reimbursed.

The move from being appointed to becoming civil servants would change library employees’ status.

Food writer Jennifer Chandler has brought her “Recipe Exchange” back to The Daily Memphian. 

Big changes are coming to Frayser schools, an ex-Memphis cop is sentenced for murder and the DA’s office remembers lives lost.

The changes could be an example of what’s to come for other families as Memphis-Shelby County Schools makes plans to close, consolidate, repurpose and build new campuses.

The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office honored 178 victims of violence Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, at the 15th annual “Season of Remembrance” event.

“The whole world is watching Tennessee right now, and they’re watching your district,” the president said.

The council also gets an update on the Memphis Area Transit Authority’s three-month, no-fare experiment.

High school students can get a taste of higher education, expand their horizons and maybe shave off a semester of their college career with help from the Mississippi University for Women.

Sometimes a La Nina winter can produce a decent snow event, but Monday’s forecast calls for a mix of sleet and rain. 

Patric Ferguson was sentenced in the January 2021 death of Robert Howard, whom he killed while on duty.

The two sides have fought in court since early 2024.

In advance of GivingTuesday, editorial director Mary Cashiola and Sarah Leach, The Daily Memphian’s director of fundraising and development, talk about the news site’s role as a nonprofit, the free content the site provides and goals for the day.