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  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: Halbert’s late on her rent, and Cordova history is up for sale

    Ford Jr.’s trial has been pushed back, Max’s Sports Bar goes hard on sports and Hardaway says his team is “second-best.”

    By Bianca Phillips September 26, 2025
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    Millington says Halbert owes more than $30,000 in rent for clerk’s office

    The Millington city manager says Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert hasn’t paid rent since 2023 for an office at City Hall. But Halbert says the lease must have been signed by a different county government team.

    By Michael Waddell September 27, 2025
  • Shelby County

    Ford Jr.'s federal trial pushed back

    Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr.’s trial on bribery and tax evasion charges has been moved back two months.

    By Samuel Hardiman September 25, 2025
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    The Early Word: Where the cops are and where to find pumpkin everything

    New Monopoly game trades Park Place for Tom Lee Park, a local Supreme Court justice is retiring and we’ve got eight Grizzlies storylines to watch.

    By Bianca Phillips September 25, 2025
  • Metro

    The AM/DM: Commission votes to align school board terms, but it’s not a recall. Or, is it?

    Today, Mary Cashiola talks with Bill Dries about the 7–5 vote, the backstory to the clash and what might happen next. 

    By Mary Cashiola September 25, 2025
  • Business

    Instead of Park Place, Memphis Monopoly players can buy the U of M

    Monopoly: Memphis Edition trades in Mediterranean Avenue and Boardwalk for Elmwood Cemetery and the National Civil Rights Museum as well as other top local attractions.

    By Sophia Surrett September 25, 2025
  • Public Safety

    New police shift targets speeding, reckless driving and drag racing

    The Memphis Police Department has created a permanent traffic enforcement shift as part of an effort that is targeting four of the city’s main traffic arteries.

    By Jody Callahan September 25, 2025
  • State Government

    Tennessee Supreme Court justice from Memphis to retire

    Holly Kirby served as chief justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court for three of her 12 years on the state’s high court.

    By Bill Dries September 24, 2025
  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: Five MSCS schools may close, but Rhodes is firmly rooted

    Council votes down National Guard opposition, Downtown’s gone country and a vacant Midtown dry cleaners is “kleaning” up.

    By Bianca Phillips September 24, 2025
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: For 100 years, Memphis and Rhodes have needed each other. That’s truer than ever today.

    Rhodes moved from Clarksville to Memphis in September 1925. A hundred years later, the college and the city still rely on each other to thrive. 

    By Geoff Calkins September 24, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    City Council is on board with free MATA bus ride trial period

    The Memphis City Council is asking MATA to figure out the details of a month-long trial run at no fares and reports on the impact it has on ridership.

    By Bill Dries September 24, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    City Council gives MLGW go ahead for new operations center

    The resolution the City Council passed authorizes MLGW to buy a Cordova property for up to $31.4 million. 

    By Samuel Hardiman September 23, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    City Council votes down National Guard resolution

    The resolution opposing the guard deployment as part of a larger anti-crime initiative by the Trump administration was defeated on a tie vote.

    By Bill Dries September 23, 2025
  • Education

    MSCS recommends five schools close at the end of the 2025-26 year

    About 1,200 students will have to attend a new campus in the fall if the board approves Memphis-Shelby County Schools' plan to close four buildings and transfer a fifth.

    By Laura Testino September 23, 2025
  • Public Safety

    Prosecutors appealing new trial for former cops charged in Tyré Nichols’ death

    The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, if it hears the case, will decide whether Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith will face a jury again or remain convicted of the various charges they were convicted of at trial last year.

    By Aarron Fleming September 23, 2025
  • Public Safety

    Woman sentenced for Graceland sale scheme

    The woman accused of attempting to sell Graceland in a fraudulent auction last year will now spend more than four years in federal prison for her crimes.

    By Aarron Fleming September 24, 2025
  • Public Safety

    Bond set on day two of hearing for DeAndre, Vinessa Brown

    “I’m absolutely befuddled why the city government, why the county government and why the state of Tennessee would give money to a person to run a nonprofit organization when they had been convicted of stealing money from a nonprofit organization in the past,” said Criminal Court Judge Lee Coffee.

    By Jody Callahan September 24, 2025
  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: MSCS board shakeup and a Central High kazoo rebellion

    Something sweet is coming to East Memphis, the Tigers basketball team signs a new player and we look at what it would cost to fix every MSCS school.

    By Bianca Phillips September 23, 2025
  • Premium Education

    How much could it cost to upgrade each MSCS school?

    Assessments of Memphis-Shelby County Schools' buildings estimated repair costs throughout the next 10 years. Costs to keep buildings in shape are expected to be among the factors that determine which Memphis schools may close.

    By Laura Testino September 23, 2025
  • Shelby County

    Resolution opposing National Guard deployment fails to pass County Commission

    After much debate, the commission failed to pass any resolution on the National Guard. Discussion moved on to a new jail, grants and the county reserves.

    By Bill Dries September 23, 2025
  • Sports

    Breast cancer awareness golf tourney close to one Memphian’s heart

    With FedEx as a backer, the Pink Ribbon Open has quietly brought LPGA players to Memphis for more than three decades.

    By Tim Buckley September 23, 2025
  • Shelby County

    County Commission approves moving all MSCS board seats to 2026 ballot

    The vote effectively shortens the four-year terms of office that five school board members were elected to in 2024.

    By Bill Dries September 22, 2025
  • Premium Spirit of Memphis

    Calkins: The Central High band was banned from a game. So they fought back — with kazoos!

    The Central High band was banned from a football game Friday night. So how did they respond? With kazoos! A protest story for our time. 

    By Geoff Calkins September 22, 2025
  • Spirit of Memphis

    When NICU patients, parents and medical staff meet again, the reunion has all the emotions

    Nurses, patients and more gathered at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Saturday, Sept. 20, for a neonatal intensive care reunion.

    By Jody Callahan September 22, 2025
  • Health Care

    At Saint Francis Hospital, a team of heroes hand-crafted hope

    The plant operations team at Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis walked into the conference room expecting a meeting. Instead, the team was met with a room full of people waiting to congratulate them. 

    By Lydia Williams September 22, 2025

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