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    Cohen questions FBI leader about National Guard in Memphis

    U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., asked FBI Director Kash Patel about the Memphis Safe Task Force, which President Donald Trump established Monday.

    See The Daily Memphian’s full coverage of the Memphis Safe Task Force 

    By Samuel Hardiman September 18, 2025
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Businessman, entrepreneur Walker Uhlhorn dies at 88

    Walker and Ann Uhlhorn had a love that endured for 65 years, even though he often found himself making the bed because she beat him — again — on the golf course.

    By Jody Callahan September 18, 2025
  • State Government

    Tennessee Supreme Court sides with police union — again

    The Tennessee Supreme Court had initially stayed the ruling while the case worked its way through the appellate court.

    By Samuel Hardiman September 17, 2025
  • Shelby County

    ‘I don’t want to see a tank in my neighborhood’— County Commission debates Guard deployment

    County Commissioners got their first look at two resolutions offering different responses to the coming deployment of National Guard troops to the city. 

    By Bill Dries September 17, 2025
  • Education

    Tennessee won’t say how many students are enrolled in new voucher program

    Months after Tennessee launched its first statewide voucher program, the Tennessee Department of Education won’t say how many students are using it to attend private school.

    By Melissa Brown September 17, 2025
  • Downtown

    Main Street will soon get new banners

    Four designs will be displayed on the Main Street Mall and will highlight and celebrate the city’s identity.

    By Dima Amro September 17, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    MLGW takes step toward buying Cordova property

    MLGW previously considered moving the utility’s headquarters to the same building, but backed off on that plan. 

    By Samuel Hardiman September 17, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    Council members to push Gov. Lee to reject Guard deployment

    The City Council could vote on the resolution, so far backed by a group of council members, at its meeting next week. It is not binding on Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee.

    By Bill Dries September 18, 2025
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    The Early Word: More on the National Guard; Midtown’s Parkview is back

    Midtown Chick-fil-A is back, Arlington traffic may improve in a roundabout way and Thursday is for throwback movies.

    By Bianca Phillips September 17, 2025
  • Public Safety

    The AM/DM podcast: How a new MPD position rankled the department

    In the wake of Tyré Nichols’ death, the Memphis Police Department decided it had an absence of supervision in the field, and set out to fix that problem by creating a new position — the second lieutenant. But that solution caused a string of other problems. 

    By Mary Cashiola September 17, 2025
  • Premium Public Safety

    Memphis task force ‘evolving,’ local leaders say

    The state National Guard is also being sent to Memphis, although exactly what its job will be and where they will be deployed remain some of the biggest unanswered questions.

    By Jody Callahan September 17, 2025
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    How D.C. federal law enforcement efforts could inform what happens in Memphis

    President Donald Trump said Memphis will be a “replica” of D.C. with the National Guard. What has it looked like in the nation’s capital?

    By Aarron Fleming September 17, 2025
  • Public Safety

    Do residents think National Guard is the answer to crime?

    Daily Memphian reporters talked to Memphis residents to find out if they support President Donald Trump’s new task force.

    See The Daily Memphian’s full coverage of the Memphis Safe Task Force

    By Lydia Williams, Laura Testino September 17, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    Substation fire left thousands without power in Memphis

    Many residents in the Midtown and Downtown area were left with no power when an MLGW substation caught fire.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff September 16, 2025
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    National Guard should be ‘force multiplier’ for MPD, Lee says

    Gov. Bill Lee described the Memphis Safe Task Force as a “long-time” mission that could last six months or longer.

    By Samuel Hardiman September 17, 2025
  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: Guard will be under Lee’s control; Tops catches fire — again

    City questions legality of its employee unions, Good Fortune learns its game-show fortune and Wiseacre OG gets in the sandwich game.

    By Bianca Phillips September 16, 2025
  • Food News

    Memphis has Good Fortune Co. in ‘Great Food Truck Race’ finale

    Memphis’ very own Good Fortune Co. brought their handmade noodle and dumplings and faced off against Nishaan, a Pakistani-American fusion food truck based in New York City.

    By Lydia Williams September 16, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    XAI subsidiary to lease 500-plus acres to energy cooperative

    The EDGE resolution includes “solar as an eligible use of property.”

    By Dima Amro September 15, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    President Trump creates ‘Memphis Safe Task Force’

    “This task force will be a replica of our extraordinarily successful efforts here (in Washington D.C.), and you’ll see it’s a lot of the same thing (in Memphis),” the president said. 

    By Samuel Hardiman September 19, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    Memphis-area leaders take to national airwaves to talk National Guard

    A “threat to democracy” vs. making Memphis “the most safe city in America,” area leaders give their thoughts on what the National Guard deployment can mean for the city. 

    By Bill Dries September 16, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    City of Memphis questions legality of its employee unions

    The city argues that there’s nothing in its charter that gives city employees the right to collectively bargain as a union. 

    By Samuel Hardiman September 15, 2025
  • Public Safety

    Sunday Tops Bar-B-Q fire suspected as arson

    The Tops location, which suffered another fire in February, had been within four weeks of reopening after a major reconstruction. 

    By Ellen Chamberlain September 15, 2025
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    The Early Word: National Guard is coming, and so are MPD demotions

    Food truck puts greens on a grilled cheese, the Tigers football team is undefeated and we take a trip down memory lane to the “beach within reach.”

    By Bianca Phillips September 15, 2025
  • Metro

    The AM/DM podcast: B.B. King and The Daily Memphian have birthdays

    In this episode of The AM/DM, newsletter editor Bianca Phillips and columnist Chris Herrington talk about the week ahead, which includes The Daily Memphian’s upcoming anniversary.

    By Bianca Phillips September 15, 2025
  • Premium City of Memphis

    National Guard not needed in Memphis, former police director says

    Buddy Chapman led the police department in 1978, when the National Guard came as police and fire strikes left the city burning. This time, he says, it’s different.

    Related content: 

    Full coverage: The National Guard is coming to Memphis

    By Aarron Fleming September 15, 2025

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