A Circuit Court judge has issued a gag order to prevent DeSoto County’s Matthew Barton from speaking publicly about an inmate who escaped from custody and remains at large.

The original principal of Forest Hill Elementary is, in some ways, following in his father’s footsteps. 

Two Collierville officials plan to run for mayor. But, first, they’ll have to step down from their current elected positions. 

Alderman Don Lowry is asking the Millington Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors to take action against Chamber Executive Director Terry Roland because of a dispute with USA Stadium Directing Manager Kevin Kennedy.

Germantown’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen have long discussed rules for temporary-parking spaces and signage, but on Monday, the Memphis suburb’s leaders are scheduled to consider official guidelines.

The Rev. Dorothy Sanders Wells, former rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Germantown, is a graduate of Rhodes College. She earned a law degree from the University of Memphis and practiced law for 18 years before attending Memphis Theological Seminary and becoming a priest.

When the YMCA first partnered with the city, the expectation was that $750,000 in new equipment and upgrades would be provided.

Cxffeeblack has slowly produced Gold Brew coffee cans to test the demand. Now, co-owner Bartholomew Jones said they can’t keep them in stock.

A roundabout is being planned for the problematic intersection at Seed Tick Road and Memphis-Arlington Road.

Redistricting is always a bit tricky, and in Mississippi, it’s a bit of a tangled mess that dates back two years.

The U. S. District Court of the Southern District of Mississippi ruled on Tuesday, July 2, that some of the districts drawn in 2022 violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

All-star running back Geron Johnson and plenty of other talented returnees have Coach Chris Smith excited heading into year two.

Speaking to The Daily Memphian on Wednesday, July 17, Young said he is running as the “only conservative in the next election.”

The project will widen Snowden Lane, among other improvements, and upgrade fixtures at Autumn Woods.

Wanda Gibbs was appointed to the Collierville Board of Education in 2019. She pulled a petition Wednesday for her second four-year term.

“We’re probably the first restaurant in the world that was doing good but closed,” said Stafford Houston, who recently signed over ownership of the restaurant to two local chefs.

The freestanding restaurant had sat vacant since the pandemic, but local leaders were disappointed to see the property become a car wash. 

“This is the best-case scenario for this site,” Arlington’s town planner said of the Dunkin’. “It does have indoor seating. It has everything we’re asking for.”

“The Mississippi Legislature effectively cracked the majority-Black community in Horn Lake across three districts and split Horn Lake and the historically Black town of Jago rather than keeping them together,” a federal court wrote.

Three candidates have already pulled petitions to run for Collierville mayor while three others are planning to run for the seat being vacated by Alderman John Worley. 

“Sometimes it takes a second term to see things fully to fruition,” Mayor Ken Adams said, who says Olive Branch is on its way to becoming the largest city in DeSoto County.

Earlier this month, a federal court affirmed that new state House and Senate districts drawn in 2022 diluted the power of Black voters. 

The wall is a three-fifths scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

This nonprofit creates space for healing and second chances for people with autism, trauma or other diagnoses, and also for horses that had careers in the show ring, on the polo field or elsewhere.

Arlington, Bartlett and Germantown have races specific to their suburbs on the August ballot.