MATA Trolley Catches Fire...Again
A MATA spokesperson says six passengers were on board when the fire broke out. All of them made it off the trolley without injuries. The driver of the trolley was taken to the hospital for chest ...
View ArticleMemphis Police Investigate Former City Director
A recently released audit shows a former city director steered thousands of dollars to a company connected to his son and now Memphis police are ...
View ArticleYoung Autistic Boy Found Alone In Drainage Ditch
Police are questioning the mother of a young autistic boy found alone in a water-filled drainage ditch in Drummonds, Tennessee early Monday ...
View ArticleRDC To Consider Opening Bar Grill On The River
The Landing, long besieged by delays and cost-overruns, has restaurant space, and a bar is already inside, but the Riverfront Development Corporation, which runs Beale Street Landing, has been unable ...
View ArticleHaslam seeking federal disaster funding for nine counties including Shelby...
An early March ice storm shut down most of Memphis. Shelby County is one of nine counties Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has requested a presidential disaster declaration for because of extreme winter ...
View ArticleDenver Nuggets at Memphis Grizzlies 7 p.m. Miami Herald APR 4
(SportsNetwork.com) - The Memphis Grizzlies are battling for a playoff berth and that quest continues Friday night when they welcome the Denver Nuggets to FedExForum.The Grizzlies are in a fight with ...
View ArticleThe Fundamentals Difference between Grizzlies Blazers
Marc Gasol’s Grizzlies and LaMarcus Aldridge’s Blazers contrast in playoff experience.?(Sam Forencich/NBAE/Getty Images) The Grizzlies and Trail Blazers?are separated by just ...
View ArticleCountry musician Hunter Hayes fulfills dream in bringing show to Landers...
Hunter Hayes, left, and Katie Spira, executive officer of the U.S. Coast Guard, perform at ACM Presents an All-Star Salute to the Troops April 7 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) ...
View ArticleAttorney for Memphis child rape suspect asks to move trial citing newspaper...
An attorney for accused child rapist James Hawkins, 63, asked the judge to move Hawkins’ trial out of Memphis due to a front-page story in Tuesday’s edition of The Commercial ...
View ArticleTruck school bus collide in Millington no injuries reported
What!! You mean 50 ambulances weren't (needlessly) sent there? No screaming parents with cellphones? What a sorry job of mishandling this situation. Bet the TV attorneys can't wait to...
View ArticleWhitehaven Dilaudid Family brings 38 indictments on drug-trafficking charges
More than three dozen people, many of them part of the same family, were indicted Tuesday on charges related to an extensive drug trafficking ring that’s been in business for more than 15 ...
View ArticleGermantown Community Theatre prepares for Twelfth Night childrens play and more
The cast of Twelfth Night. Courtesy Germantown Community Theater. "Twelfth Night" opens as Germantown Community Theater faces a very busy few ...
View ArticleCollierville Town Administrator given public servant award
Collierville Town Administrator James Lewellen was selected to receive the 11th annual public service award from the Rotary Club. There is a lunch banquet at the University of Memphis on April 21 ...
View ArticleTennessee governor seeks weather disaster declaration that includes Shelby...
Gov. Bill Haslam has asked President Barack Obama to declare a federal disaster in nine Tennessee counties, including Shelby, as a result of extreme weather in early ...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood of Memphis offers day of free STD testing low cost treatment
Planned Parenthood of Greater Memphis will offer free testing for sexually transmitted diseases as well as low-cost treatments throughout April in honor of National STD Awareness ...
View ArticleMid-South Memories April 9
The Commercial Appeal files A delegation of Corinth, Miss., business leaders and city officials made a tour of The Commercial Appeal on April 9, 1953, while on a visit to Memphis. They are (from ...
View ArticleDeSoto teachers to vote on school start date
DeSoto County school leaders are ready to present teachers with two options for next year’s academic calendar and expect board members to approve the preferred option April ...
View ArticleNew state building code e-cigarette ban spark action by DeSoto supervisors
Stan Carroll/The Commercial Appeal April 8, 2014 — In his role as building inspector for DeSoto County, Randy Williams has seen his share of fire-damaged houses like this one in the Eudora ...
View ArticleSchool voucher bill en route to Tennessee Senate floor
Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris, R-Collierville, speaks in favor of Gov. Bill Haslam's limited school voucher proposal in the Senate Finance Committee in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, April 8,...
View ArticleBoard member says Memphis charter school held illegal meetings
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