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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In a contentious and confusing meeting Tuesday night, the Mason Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted to reopen the 600-bed West Tennessee Detention Facility for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to use for immigrants. Tennessee town considers deal to turn closed prison into immigration detention facilityRelated content:
“(Rescue groups) like these are typically overwhelmed with a lot of dogs,” said Jane Jayakumar, who brought her Streetdog foster Gabriel to the event. “Events like these help promote that we’re a presence in Memphis.”
Whitlock, who grew up in Millington and got his start at Stax Records, will forever be known as a member of Derek and the Dominoes.
As the golf tournament resumes, MLGW crews are slowly whittling down the number of customers without power after a summer squall dumped an inch of rain on the city Friday afternoon.
Heavy rain Friday afternoon leaves more than 11,000 in the dark and causes play to be suspended at the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
Julian Bolton, an attorney who also mentored younger politicians in the community after leaving the County Commission in 2006, died Monday. He was 75.
In February, In-N-Out vice president of store development Mike Abbate told The Daily Memphian that a local store was years away.
John Larkin was a tireless advocate for the Overton Park Shell, and if not for him and those like him, the Shell might have been torn down and replaced by a parking lot years ago.
In a Memphis August, there’s no such thing as a “cold front.” But temperatures are expected to be 10 degrees cooler on Friday than on Thursday.
The pool party, hosted by an Ole Miss student at his parents’ house, charged attendees $10 a person.
‘Sneakerheads’ willing to buy, trade or sell their soles descend on the Agricenter International for SneakFest Sneaker Expo.
Former Shelby County Sheriff and Mayor Bill Morris, who died July 25 after a fall suffered several weeks before, shaped the lives of Memphians through his work over the past 50 years.
GloRilla was arrested in Atlanta days before her Glo Bash in Memphis, but the show is still on for Friday night.
More than half the money raised will go toward other university operations.
One of the first three buildings erected at the University of Memphis will soon get a structural refresh and new amenities.
It was on May 15, 1984, in Memphis, that an incident happened that made Ozzy Osbourne famous for something other than his music.
University of Memphis guard Sincere Parker, who was charged with domestic violence in an alleged assault on his girlfriend, remained in jail late Sunday.
Corey Adams was a freshman who signed with Ole Miss after helping lead his high school football team to a Louisiana state championship last season.
Middle schoolers and high school students got to explore computer science and coding during a three-day event at the University of Memphis.
This comes after both houses of Congress narrowly approved a measure this week that will “claw back” about $9 billion from the budgets for public broadcasting and foreign aid. How Memphis' two Congressmen voted on the $9B federal funding takebackRelated content:
The group was the final act in this year’s Live at the Garden lineup.
“This is a complete case of abandonment of 185 students on scholarship,” said one student. “It’s a break of trust. It comes as a betrayal.”
The nearly 200-year-old Davies Manor marks its 50th year as a museum. Officials don’t dodge the story of 22 enslaved people who lived there, but the tour also includes light-hearted moments.
“These students face academic dismissal, visa complications and loss of housing and support, through no fault of their own ...” the university said in a statement.
“Gross, gross.” “It’s OK to make a mistake.” “Yikes!” Memphians react to a Redbirds ad for a Fourth of July celebration.