Update

Former Shelby County Sheriff Gene Barksdale dies at 99

By  and , Daily Memphian Updated: March 09, 2022 8:44 PM CT | Published: March 09, 2022 5:31 PM CT

Barksdale served as sheriff from 1976 to 1986.

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Yolanda Jones

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Yolanda Jones covers criminal justice issues and general assignment news for The Daily Memphian. She previously was a reporter at The Commercial Appeal.

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Bill Dries

Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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