Memphis News

B. B. Cunningham Jr. was lead singer of the Memphis rock band the Hombres. The band scored a hit for 13 weeks in 1967 with the song "Let It Out ." The late Memphis musician B.B. Cunningham will be recognized with a place on the Beale Street Brass Note Walk of Fame, with a ceremony set for May 29 at 6 p.m. inside the recently opened Jerry Lee Lewis' ... (more)

Breakaway Running is the latest addition to Overton Square, as the speciality running store has signed a 2,346-square-foot lease at 2109 Madison Ave.

Memphis City Council member Lee Harris will propose Tuesday, May 21, exempting Memphis auto owners for two years from required auto emissions inspections.

Memphis police are investigating a shooting that left two injured and two dead Sunday night.

Two people are dead and two others are wounded after a shooting at 2323 Ketchum Road, according to police.Three victims were transported to The MED by ambulance, and one other by private vehicle.Two Two people are dead and two others are wounded after a shooting at 2323 Ketchum Road, according to police.Three victims were transported to The MED by ... (more)

The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development has tapped Gwyn Fisher to be the Greater Memphis regional director of economic and community development.

1973: On the front page of The Daily News, a study by Memphis State University's Bureau of Business and Economic Research concluded Shelby County would not have a majority African-American population for the next 50 years, as it did from 1880 to 1910.

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A Mid-South family pet was taken outside of a Memphis Home Depot Store. There are new leads in the case, but still no arrests.

A 35-year-old man who told jurors in November that he'd been in trouble since he was 9 was sentenced to 76 years in prison Friday for felony convictions stemming from a 2006 crime spree that involved three carjackings at gunpoint and several assaults on federal officers.

The head of the Beale Street Merchants Association says he doesn't think Club 152 should have been shut down as a public nuisance.

The man accused of trying to rob and kidnap an elderly woman at an east Memphis grocery store parking lot made his first court appearance Friday morning.

LaunchYourCity Inc., the Memphis-based economic development organization that created Seed Hatchery, has rebranded and changed its name to Start Co.

The man suspected of trying to kidnap an elderly woman in east Memphis has turned himself in to police.

May 15, 2013 - A no dumping sign is nailed into a tree by the driveway that leads to a massive illegal dump located on the 3400 block of Dillard Road in the Springhill neighborhood in Raleigh.

The Atlanta-based industrial real estate developer is plans to build a 430,212-square-foot building, called Crossroads Distribution Center Building D, and have it delivered by December.

With a full-ride scholarship for soccer, his goal became to play in the big leagues.

Police need help identifying a suspect who tried to kidnap an elderly woman at an east Memphis shopping center Tuesday afternoon.

Barbara Wooten was a victim of a 2007 home invasion shooting that damaged her heart and murdered her husband.

The countywide school board should have a budget proposal ready for the Shelby County Commission by the end of this week.