A presidential election that included two assassination attempts and a last-minute candidate change. People flocking to the “path of totality” — and then residents within the totality worried about that. International upheaval and mass casualties due to multiple wars. Questions about the Seine’s bacteria during the Paris Olympics. The Hawk Tuah girl. 

Those were some of the topics that dominated 2024, in both traditional news and on social media. 

Locally, the year started with the inauguration of a new Memphis mayor and continued with a plot to steal Graceland, turmoil at the Memphis-Shelby County Schools system and enough restaurant closings to make local diners more than a little nervous. 

Here is a sampling of 2024’s top storylines from The Daily Memphian, in no particular order.