Memphis Local News

Supt. Kriner Cash is framing what he hopes will be a hallmark of his administration in the idealism of college campuses.

It was volunteered information that explained a lot.

As an opener, the four-day inauguration of Overton Park's open-air band shell exceeded all expectations for those who helped make the $1.3 million renovation a reality.

With the late afternoon sun still shining, a dozen people from across Memphis ducked into a dark pub for cold drafts and a generous helping of God and religion.

Southaven Alderman Paul Ollar, the lone dissenting vote against a 2009 city budget that cuts property taxes and gives city workers a pay raise, says his opposition was based on the fact that there were changes in the budget proposal of which he wasn't made aware.

The mission was both exhilarating and heartbreaking, often at the same time.

A lecture on the Lincoln-Douglas debates is scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday at the University of Mississippi-DeSoto as part of the buildup to the Sept. 26 presidential debate at the university's main campus in Oxford.

Horn Lake is seeking applicants for its second annual Fall Festival Beauty Pageant, set for Oct. 4.

Rita Madden had just left the hospital where her mother had taken her last breath.

During last year's annual recycling event, DeSoto County filled so many trucks that organizers lost count.

Since mid-June, Ginger Turnmire and seven of her fellow inmates have been without the four-legged charges that have lifted spirits at a prison for women in Memphis. Dogs -- plucked from an animal shelter and delivered to the prison for six to eight weeks of training to make them more adoptable -- have been missed.

Name: Kendall Elaine McCoy

It's nearly 60 years since Riley B. King's first appearance on air as an unknown. His "Tonight Show" appearance in late August was seen by millions. These days, the entire world knows and reveres him as B.B. King, the last great icon of the blues.

Even one of the largest airplanes in the world, a gray Lockheed C-5 Galaxy behemoth, seemed dwarfed by its surroundings: A 28-acre sea of 14-inch thick concrete. Super-sized hangars. A facility that cost $245 million and required eight design firms, four general contractors and five different contracts over more than two years to put together -- in one of the largest Air National Guard projects in history.

They occupied one of the longest picnic tables, sat shoulder to shoulder and chatted over sweaty cans of cola, boxes of fruit juice, bags of chips and hot dogs decked in mustard and mayonnaise.

His arms shredded by a boat propeller, Dustin Maxwell collapsed on the muddy riverbank with his friend and waited for help.

In August, Mayor James F. Valley and the Helena-West Helena City Council unanimously created a 24-hour curfew zone in one of the city's poorest areas, a 10-block sector that has had its share of violence and drugs.

It was odd, I thought as I went last week with my mother to Gaisman Community Center, one of more than 20 local sites that served as a temporary home for people fleeing Hurricane Gustav.

The various groups of chalk-wielding artists huddled at the Memphis Farmers Market on Saturday combined to produce a picture of success for a local festival.

More than 76,700 DeSoto Countians are registered for the Nov. 4 presidential election, but the county Election Commission has termed an additional 11,983 people registered as "inactive voters."