Sunday, September 18, 2016

Memphis police: Mother dead following domestic violence incident and other top stories.

  • Memphis police: Mother dead following domestic violence incident

    Memphis police: Mother dead following domestic violence incident
    Please enable Javascript to watch this video MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Friends and family are mourning the loss of a 23-year-old Raleigh mother after police say she was shot and killed overnight in her home on Sun Ridge Cove in a case of domestic violence. They've charged Kadarrin Johnson, 22, with the murder of Darneshah Qualls and for giving deputies a scare while arresting him. "What happened last night, she didn't deserve that," said Quall's friend Champagne Cathey. "She was all about her ba..
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  • South Memphis fire survivor Cameron Jett still fighting

    South Memphis fire survivor Cameron Jett still fighting
    Please enable Javascript to watch this video MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Zipporah Bunting broke down talking about Cameron Jett. He’s the sole survivor of the deadly house fire that killed 9 people early Monday morning. "Sweetest. Football all of them everyday, all of you saw was my babies out here," said Bunting. "Cam was the ring leader just a little soldier," added Bunting. She said Cameron is a team player known for bringing his siblings together. He's a true lover of sports and everything out..
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  • Crosstown secures bonds for community theater

    Crosstown secures bonds for community theater
    Lost in the Cosimos LLC, a wholly-owned entity of Crosstown Arts, has gained a necessary approval to secure $11 million in tax-exempt revenue bonds to build a 450-seat community theater at Crosstown. The Center City Revenue Finance Corp. (CCRFC), an affiliate board of the Downtown Memphis Commission, approved the issuance of up to $11 million in tax-exempt revenue bonds for the construction of a 450-seat community theater on the property it owns near Crosstown Concourse. The CCRFC lea..
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  • New program to find paid work for Memphis panhandlers

    New program to find paid work for Memphis panhandlers
    By Ryan Poe of The Commercial Appeal Instead of begging on Memphis street corners, some panhandlers could soon clean them for cash thanks to a new city-funded day work program launching this fall, officials announced Wednesday.As part of the new Work Local program, Downtown-based homeless resource center Hospitality Hub will send a van to pick up about 10 panhandlers in Downtown and Midtown to work for the city on Tuesdays and Thursdays cleaning up blight. Workers will be paid a living wage of ..
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  • Forget Big 12, Memphis may be in running for college cookies

    Forget Big 12, Memphis may be in running for college cookies
    By Thomas Bailey Jr. of The Commercial Appeal There's about 90 of them in the U.S., including one on Cumberland Avenue in Knoxville, on Lamar in Oxford, on Cotton Mill in Starkville, on Chimes in Baton Rouge, on 11th in Birmingham, on University in Tuscaloosa, and on Hardy in Hattiesburg. And now Insomnia Cookies has filed for a building permit that indicates possible plans to locate at 545 S. Highland on the Highland Strip. That site cozies up to the University of Memphis just like those other..
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  • Police identify victim who was shot in South Memphis

    Police identify victim who was shot in South Memphis
    Police identify victim who was shot in South Memphis Updated: Sep 14, 2016 - 11:29 AM UPDATE on Wednesday at 8:35 p.m.: Police identified the victim as 51-year-old Kenneth Griffin. ---- One person is dead and the gunman is on the run after an overnight shooting in South Memphis. The reported shooting happened in the 900 block of South Wellington. We’re working to learn if there is any suspect information.    Š 2016 Cox Media Group.
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  • Officials: Power cord malfunction caused Memphis deadly fire

    Officials: Power cord malfunction caused Memphis deadly fire
    MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A house fire that killed six children and three adults in Memphis was caused by an electrical malfunction in an air conditioning unit's power cord in the living room, authorities said. The Memphis Fire Department released the cause of Monday morning's deadly fire as relatives and friends mourned their loved ones by hugging, crying and holding hands in prayer outside the house in a working class neighborhood in south Memphis. Meanwhile, a 10th victim of the fire, a child, is fig..
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  • City, COGIC join hands for affordable housing project in South ...

    City, COGIC join hands for affordable housing project in South ...
    By Ryan Poe of The Commercial Appeal Updated: Yesterday 1:21 p.m. 15 The Church of God in Christ announced Tuesday that it plans to begin construction next March on the Mason Village multifamily development in South Memphis. The city of Memphis is loaning $4 million for the $10 million project, which will bring 77 "affordable town homes" to the 6.3 acres that was the vacant site of Fowler Homes, a public-housing project at Fourth Avenue and Crump Boulevard torn down in 2004.  CO..
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  • US education chief to focus on college opportunity in Memphis ...

    US education chief to focus on college opportunity in Memphis ...
    When John King makes his first visit Wednesday to Memphis as the nation’s education chief, he’ll highlight college opportunity in a school district with a sagging ACT composite but a rising number of students applying for financial aid for college. King will visit Craigmont High School as part of a back-to-school bus tour across the South touting education initiatives of the Obama administration, including streamlining the process for completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or ..
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  • Woman gets 15 years in prison in Memphis pastor's death

    Woman gets 15 years in prison in Memphis pastor's death
    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Mississippi woman has pleaded guilty in the robbery and fatal shooting of a Memphis pastor. The Shelby County district attorney's office says 25-year-old Lashonda Williams pleaded guilty Monday to facilitation to commit first-degree murder in the death of 57-year-old Don A. Smith. She was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Smith was a pastor at Prospect Park Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis. He was found shot to death in November 2014. Investigators say..
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