1 Dead In Memphis Officer-Involved Shooting
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis police are at the scene of a fatal shooting Wednesday involving a police officer near a church south of downtown Memphis.Dozens of people gathered near St. Andrew AME Church, some screaming expletives at police. More than two dozen marked and unmarked police cars lined the streets. Dispatchers received a call just before 3 p.m. about the shooting. Police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph said no officers were shot but referred all other questions to the Tennessee Bureau of..>> view originalMemphis authorities investigate officer-involved shooting
© WTVC | Portions are © Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or distributed.WTVC News Channel 9 provides coverage of news, sports, weather and community events throughout the Chattanooga, Tennessee area, including East Ridge, East Brainerd, Ooltweah, Middle Valley, Cleveland, Georgetown, Hopewell, Dayton, Dunlap and Jasper, Tennessee, For Oglethorpe, Chickamauga and Dalton, Georgia, Bridgeport and Stevenson, Alabama.>> view originalEx-Tiger Michael Wilson weighs in on Memphis fans, Pastner ...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Ran across some interesting posts on Facebook by former University of Memphis forward Michael Wilson, who weighed in Tuesday night on Memphis fans, the perceived heat coach Josh Pastner is under and why he thinks Tigers great Penny Hardaway wouldn't be interested in the head coaching job if it opens. He wrote: Good game Tigers. Why does everyone keep talking about Pastner? Like Memphis is used to winning championships? They lost to ECU or whoever it was...it happens. Penny's t..>> view originalMemphis firefighter injured while battling Whitehaven fire
× Memphis firefighter injured while battling Whitehaven fire MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis firefighter is recovering after suffering a minor shoulder injury while battling a house fire in Whitehaven. The fire started just before 2 a.m. Thursday at a house at the corner of Sidney & Brownlee — which is just a few blocks from Elvis Presley & Raines. Lt. Wayne Cooke with the Memphis Fire Dept. says the firefighter suffered his injury while searching the house after the fire was put out. Cooke says..>> view originalMemphis Zoo President Talks Parking and Public Perception
Equal access to Overton Park is at the heart of the Greensward argument for Chuck Brady, president and CEO of the Memphis Zoo. Zoo visitors come from "every part of the city," and without Greensward parking, they'll be turned away, he said. Overton Park is not a neighborhood park for a few but a community park for all, which is basically how Brady justified the Zoo's decision earlier this month to remove some trees that had been planted on the Greensward by the Overton Park Conservanc..>> view originalMemphis opts out of county effort to solve schools' $1B burden
Hoping to find a way out of Shelby County Schools' $1.3 billion retiree benefits obligation, County Commission chairman Terry Roland has called for an ad hoc committee that will include officials with the school system and county government. But the Memphis City Council, in a letter from its chairman Kemp Conrad, declined the invitation to join that committee. In the letter dated Jan. 21, Conrad said he appreciated the continued dialogue and applauded Roland for initiating a study of the issue...>> view originalLee Harris Out, Steve Basar In?
Though University of Memphis law professor and state Senate minority leader Lee Harris seems to have opted out of a contemplated Democratic primary challenge this year to incumbent congressman Steve Cohen for the 9th District congressional seat, a replacement of sorts may be in the wings. That would be Shelby County Commissioner Steve Basar, a Republican, who confided to the Flyer on Monday that he is actively considering making a race for the seat. For decades, no Republican has finishe..>> view originalTime for Hillary to Get Real
click to enlarge Hillary Clinton is the Great Underestimator. Eight years ago, she underestimated Barack Obama, and now she has underestimated Bernie Sanders. We know this not only from what happened in 2008 and what is happening now, but from the pitiful confessions of her campaign staff who admit they never saw Sanders coming. That's understandable. It's not so much that Sanders was underestimated; it's that Clinton is overestimated. I come at this column as a Clinton supporter. I li..>> view originalMemphis men caught stealing bread racks in Corinth
Photo Courtesy of Purple Wave × Memphis men caught stealing bread racks in Corinth Photo Courtesy of Purple Wave CORINTH, Miss. — Two men from Memphis were arrested on Tuesday, accused of stealing bread racks from stores in Mississippi. According to the Daily Corinthian, police have been searching for the culprits since January 4 when they first began receiving complaints from local stores saying their bread racks were missing. During the course of the investigation, it was discove..>> view originalUnreadable license plate ends in multiple drug charges for Memphis ...
A Memphis woman has been arrested after the car she was riding in was stopped by police who found multiple drugs inside, according to the Memphis Police Department. Sandra Bigham, 50, was arrested Thursday morning and charged with 13 counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, 3 counts manufacture/deliver/sell controlled substance to wit crack cocaine, heroin and alprazolam, and possession of a controlled substance to wit THC, according to her arrest affidavit. Officers responded to a narcotics..>> view original
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