Memphis TN

Shelby County Commissioner Michael Whaley and Memphis City Council Member Janika White join host Eric Barnes and Daily Memphian reporter Bill Dries. Guests discuss city and county budget priorities, potential cuts, funding for MATA, property tax rates, and other key issues facing Memphis and Shelby County.

Tennessee has always known how to do comfort food right, and nowhere is that more obvious than in its old-school sandwich shops. These places aren’t chasing trends or trying to reinvent the wheel—they’re just making honest, delicious sandwiches the way they’ve been doing it for years.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — One person was left injured after police say a car was hit by a train in Raleigh overnight. Officers say they responded to the crash on Chiswood Street and Raleigh Lagrange Road a little after midnight, where one person at the scene was injured. The person...

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (WMC) - A DeSoto County jury convicted a man for a shooting at a hotel in Olive Branch in 2023. Alvin Myles Jr. was sentenced to 40 years in prison and 5 years of supervised release after he was found guilty of attempted murder. The conviction stems...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Hernandez Govan, the man acquitted of being the mastermind behind the murder of Memphis rapper Young Dolph, is in federal custody, charged with cyberstalking. His attorney, Claiborne Ferguson, said the timing of the federal charges is “highly suspicious” following Govan’s acquittal in the Young D

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Memphis police are responding to a shooting near East Shelby Drive and Tulane Road in Whitehaven. Officers responded just before 3 a.m. Friday to the Sunoco gas station at that intersection. Officers located a man suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - An overturned semi-truck is causing traffic delays on Interstate 40 Friday morning, according to the Tennessee Department of Transportation. MPD says the crash involving the semi truck happened Thursday night just before midnight on I-40 West and North Watkins Street. The westbound right lane, th

LAKELAND, Tenn. — A man was killed after his car flipped during a crash late Thursday night in Lakeland, the sheriff's office said. According to the Shelby County Sheriff's Office (SCSO), deputies responded just before 10 p.m. Thursday to a one-vehicle crash on Memphis Arlington Road off Chambers Chapel Road. There, th

After producing an incredible 18 to 24 inches of rainfall across portions of Louisiana, southern Mississippi, and Alabama, Tropical Storm Arthur is now moving out of Georgia. Closer to home, a cold front is stretched across the Mid-South this morning. That front will drift a little farther south today, stall south of o

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis City Council has passed a resolution to rename a street near a local middle school after Memphis wrestling Hall of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler. Lawler was born in Memphis and is a graduate of Memphis City Schools. A street near Treadwell...