Germantown financial status gets top marks from rating agencies
Germantown had its top-level bond rating reaffirmed by the two major rating companies last week, one of a small percentage of governments in the country to hold the distinction from both ...
View ArticleMississippi briefs Ricin defendant gets new lawyer
ABERDEEN, Miss. -- A federal judge has appointed a new lawyer to represent a Mississippi man charged with sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other officials after two public...
View ArticleAuthor of true-crime thriller The Good Nurse has Memphis date
In "The Good Nurse," Brooklyn-based journalist Charles Graeber describes a serial killer who committed his crimes while working in plain sight for 16 years in Pennsylvania and New...
View ArticleOlive Branch Police Using Facebook To Keep Public Informed
MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com) - Don't get busted in the branch, or your face could be posted for the world to see. Olive Banch police have started something they call ';Busted In The...
View ArticleGOP women meet in Nashville to plan election strategies
NASHVILLE -- Women comprise a slight majority of the U.S. and Tennessee populations, but only about 17 percent of the Tennessee legislature and about 23 percent of state elected officials ...
View ArticleFamily Outraged After Officer Sentenced To Only 6 Months In Jail
MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com) - A former Memphis police officer will spend six months in jail for causing a crash that killed two people.Former MPD rookie cop Alex Beard pleaded guilty Tuesday to...
View ArticleMemphis Music Hall Of Fame Announces Second Class Of Inductees
MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com) - The Memphis Music Hall of Fame has announced more than a dozen members who will make up its second class of inductees.This year's class is headlined by the...
View ArticleBartlett officer cleared in Walmart shooting
An internal Bartlett police investigation has cleared the officer who fired six shots at a car occupied by three accused Walmart shoplifters, saying his life was in danger when they struck him with the...
View ArticleLinebarger settles suit on fees for delinquent Memphis taxpayers
"Thousands" of taxpayers are expected to get bonuses before Christmas as a result of a $7.4 million settlement with a former collection agency for the city of ...
View ArticleLaunch Tennessee road show stops at Scripps Knoxville Entrepreneur Center
Ashley Capps, founder of Knoxville-based AC Entertainment, told a group of business owners at the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center about the ups and downs of the music business. The visitors were on a...
View ArticleAlex Beard Accepts Plea Deal Gets Six Months Sentence
Alex Beard, the Memphis police officer that was on duty when he was involved in a traffic accident that killed two, accepted a plea deal from the Shelby County District Attorney's Office and...
View ArticleFormer MPD Officer Accepts Plea Deal
Alex Beard, the Memphis police officer that was on duty when he was involved in a traffic accident that killed two, accepted a plea deal from the Shelby County District Attorney's Office and...
View ArticleResidents Happy About Signs Of Progress At Raleigh Springs Mall
MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com) - After years of decline there is visible progress is taking place at the Raleigh Springs Mall.The last standing portion of the old JC Penney store was finally demolished...
View ArticleChristian Brothers University in Memphis ranked one of best in South
Christian Brothers University was named one of the 25 best Southern universities in U.S. News & World Report's 2014 edition of "America's Best ...
View ArticleShelby County school board changes venues
Instead of meeting in the auditorium of what was formerly referred to as the Memphis City Schools Teaching and Learning Academy, the board will meet on the next to last and last Tuesday of each month...
View ArticleGeorge Lapides to give public talk in Germantown
Longtime Memphis journalist and sports radio pioneer George Lapides will be the featured speaker Sunday at the meeting of the Jewish Historical Society of Memphis and the ...
View ArticleGirl 12 describes frantic escape after father opened fire in Memphis familys...
September 10, 2013 — Fredrick Thomas listens in court as his daughters testify in court on Tuesday. Thomas killed his wife, Tiffany Thomas, in an attempted murder suicide in which he...
View ArticleNeighbors shocked by sex trafficking charges near Millington
Cars stopped in front of the house in the quiet Shelby County neighborhood on the fringes of Millington Tuesday. "Is that the house where it happened?" one man ...
View ArticleAmeriCorps group spends time in Vollentine-Evergreen fixing the VE Greenline
Sep 10, 2013 — An AmeriCorps team from Vicksburg, Miss. is working in the Vollentine Evergreen community on the Greenline. From left laying gravel on the Greenline are Lindsey Mancari, of...
View ArticlePFT Locker says some Terrible Towels made the trip back to Tennessee
Getty Images In 2008, some Titans desecrated a Terrible Towel or two after a late-season win over the Steelers gave Tennessee the top seed in the AFC playoff field. Some say it sparked a curse that...
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