Leon Phillips grew up in a hard-scrabble family in rural Ohio, where his grandmother, known affectionately and a little ...

She’ll be pumping gas or buying groceries, at a community or other sundry event, doing everyday things. A person in the near ...

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As seen through the window of a MATA bus, passengers wait at the Hudson Transit Center in downtown Memphis in October 2024.

A photograph found in Ariel J. Cobbert’s family’s archive sits on an old photo album. Photo by Ariel J. Cobbert for MLK50 ...

So Davis filed the commitment paperwork herself, writing that Sydney Jones “should be taken to DeSoto County jail” while awaiting further evaluations, a court hearing and eventual treatment.. On ...

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland speaks at graduation of union pre-apprenticeship class at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Hall on Madison Avenue. Photo by Ariel Cobbert for ...

Vera Holmes (right) flips through a copy of the George Washington Carver High School class of 1982 yearbook with a classmate at the All Classes Annual Red & White Picnic at MLK Riverside Park in ...

The explanation given was “lower US oil production resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic,” but at least one environmental activist gave the credit to pipeline opponents, including the grassroots ...

Last month, officials from TransPro, the consulting firm leading the Memphis Area Transit Authority, announced two major revelations: prior leadership made route cuts that it concealed from the public ...