Jody Callahan graduated with degrees in journalism and economics from what is now known as the University of Memphis. He has covered news in Memphis for more than 25 years.
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Teenager charged with aggravated rape in one of two alleged assaults at St. George’s Independent School in recent weeks, becoming the second person arrested in the investigation.
Like You Children’s Film Fest brings both whimsy and education to the Pink Palace.
“It means we’re doing exactly what we need to do,” said Reaghan Hall, a shift supervisor who has worked at that location for five years.
The alternative/folk/country musician who launched his lengthy career from a long-gone Memphis bar more than 30 years ago died Friday. He was 59.
Jeffrey Allen Walker alleges he was fired after he reported questionable spending on an office credit card.
Memphis police arrested eight people, mostly for drug charges, in a Thursday, Nov. 13, sweep that also included agents from the Memphis Safe Task Force.
Curios, statues, Albrecht Durer and Elton John: How have Memphis museums been victimized by thieves in the last century?
Newby’s, a second home for college kids on the Highland Strip for 50 years, is not extending its lease.
More than 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers went on strike at 65 stores nationwide Thursday.
The U.S. Mint produced the last penny it’ll ever make Wednesday, but that still leaves 114 billion pennies in circulation.
This week, Ask the Memphian investigates reported sightings of ghosts at the South Main district bar. Oh, and we’ll also tell you about the abandoned cemetery right across the street.
“We have to eat,” one person in line at the mobile food pantry said. “We feel horrible because we have a government that’s not supplying our needs. And that’s what they were elected for.”
The latest death marks at least the third such fatality in the last 10 days and the 10th so far this year.
Two days after former Memphis Grizzly Tony Allen was arrested for drug possession alongside an Arkansas highway, a clearer picture has begun to emerge.
Cordero Ragland, who had all charges dismissed in a drag-racing death after being deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial, has been arrested again, records show.
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The arrest happened in Poinsett County, about 50 miles west of Memphis.
A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokesperson confirmed the officer who shot the suspect in the parking lot of the Dexter Ridge shopping center was with Homeland Security Investigations.
The football coach has been has been charged in a drug sting that led to the arrests of 20 people, including 14 current or former Mississippi law enforcement officers.
The first area School of Rock location opened in 2013.
About 45 food vendors were a highlight of the day for many attending the event at the Agricenter. But the spicy heat isn’t for the faint of heart.
He will succeed Gina Sweat, the first woman to hold the post of Memphis Fire Department chief, who retired after leading MFD for nine years.
A law enforcement officer shot a person in Cordova Friday, Oct. 31, after an apparent robbery and shooting at a nearby business, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Two federal judges ruled Friday that the government must continue to fund the nation’s biggest food aid program despite the shutdown, but local food banks are wary.
The incident happened in the University of Memphis area Thursday night, officials said.