Today, editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips discuss the Greater Memphis Chamber’s Annual Chairman’s Luncheon, one of the best local networking events of the year — if you ask Cashiola.
Operation Viper preceded Task Force, Jelly the pittie needs a forever home and we share the St. Jude Marathon origin story.
Also in this roundup, the first forum among contenders for Shelby County sheriff and the race to succeed Wanda Halbert is filling up.
Educator advocates say unpaid student teaching requirements can be a barrier for aspiring teachers. The Tennessee House speaker wants to start providing state-funded stipends for those internships.
How did such a small-time endeavor grow into a massive phenomenon that requires 4,000 volunteers and the cooperation of an entire city for a safe and well-organized event?
Stripped naked and doused with pepper spray. “Bugs galore.” Fellow inmates vomiting and defecating on themselves. Three people recently incarcerated at Shelby County Jail spoke to The Daily Memphian about their experiences.
Also happening this week: A Memphis Christmas rom-com airs on BET+, and Santa helps people cross Union Avenue.
Jelly has spent nearly 1,500 days in a kennel at the Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County. Can you give him his forever home?
This spring, FBI Director Kash Patel singled out Memphis’ violent crime rate during an interview with Fox News. When his comments were publicized, law enforcement was underway on what would become Operation Viper.
More than 22,000 runners took part in the St. Jude Memphis Marathon Saturday, which officials hope will raise $16 million for the hospital
Children checked in at Memphis International Airport, received special boarding passes and boarded a plane bound for the North Pole.
On “Behind The Headlines,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said he has tried to meet with federal officials from the Memphis Safe Task Force to talk about his concerns ICE agents are racially “profiling” Memphians.
The Memphis teenager was shot and injured during the school day in a park adjacent to Overton High School in East Memphis, according to police and the school system.
Federal prosecutors in Memphis have charged members of a national drug-trafficking operation, Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, said.
A coalition of Tennessee medical professionals is urging Gov. Bill Lee to pause all state executions “to allow the courts to consider active litigation concerning the protocol.”
This weekend is St. Jude Memphis Marathon weekend, but that doesn’t mean the fun stops. It some ways, it just keeps going ... for 26.2 miles.
Young shares a plan for Task Force aftermath, a new effort may derail cargo theft and the Renaissance building has new owners.
The “debt cliff” refers to how much city bond payments are expected to decline in the future — essentially, the city’s annual payment on its never-ending mortgage.
Sheriff Floyd Bonner faults Mayor Lee Harris for problems at the County Corrections Center and not being responsive in assisting with problems at the jail.
Memphis Mayor Paul Young said he wants to sustain the drop in crime.
“I’m just running a little race,” said a St. Jude Memphis Marathon weekend participant about the organization’s annual fundraiser to help end childhood cancer.
The criticism of DeSoto County School Board member Michele Henley continued Thursday as two speakers again called for her resignation at the board’s monthly meeting.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, the Tennessee Republican running for governor, is proposing bipartisan legislation that would give Memphis additional law enforcement resources and funding for technology to combat cargo theft.
As news spread of the death of Stax legend Steve Cropper on Thursday, Dec. 4, musicians and others who knew the giant took to social media to pay tribute.