MEMPHIS, TN (abc24.com) - An overturned car led to extended closures at several railroad crossings in East Memphis after a train derailed early Sunday morning.The car overturned at Poplar and...

Construction workers said that atabout 5:40 a.m., train cars slipped off the track on Poplar Avenue and a cart eventually toppled onto the roadway at Poplar and Mendenhall. Cranes lifteda lone cart...

(Memphis 2/5/2011) There are no serious injuries after a train derailement this morning in east Memphis. Several Canadian National Railway cars went off the rail near Mendenhall and...

09:26 AM ET 02.05 | A wealthy San Francisco hedge-fund manager and officials in the Seattle mayor's office have been working behind the scenes for eight months to bring an NBA team back to the...

10:27 AM ET 02.05 | League sources maintain one of the biggest hangups in the Dwight Howard saga is that Howard has yet to fully commit to a destination. "Dwight can't make a...

Utah had a 4-3 lead in the third period but a late onslaught by the visiting Ontario Reign doomed the Grizzlies to a 6-4 loss Saturday in front of 6,190 Maverik Center...

Aisha Patrick and Kayli Keough each led the Knights in double digits with 18 points.Gevenia Carter added 10 points and Andrea Hines recorded a career-high 10 rebounds. Erika Jones matched Hines'...

In general, critics see Haslam's legislative proposals as an unwarranted assertion of executive political power that undermines the independent operations of agencies. These agencies, they...

"The state map is an important tool for travelers, and this new feature will provide an added convenience by allowing motorists to quickly access real-time traffic information using their...

MEMPHIS, TN— The CEO of Mo’ Money Taxes offered an apology but says the refund delays aren't his company's fault. "I apologize for any inconvenience that you were caused....

Rebecca Sellers, an eighth-grade English teacher at Lester School, observes students in her class as they work on an assignment. Sellers, a 17-year veteran, taught in Shelby County schools, but...

More women in Memphis and across the nation are driving while drunk at a time when the number of DUI arrests for males is dropping, according to an FBI...

Design costs for the Beale Street Landing project shot up by more than a half million dollars as architects modified plans to deal with unstable soil along the Mississippi River, records...

Although their separatist demands may not serve the greater good of the entire county, the overwhelming majority of which is Memphis, Norris doesn't...

That mirrors a national trend, according to the FBI. From 2006-2010, auto thefts nationwide dropped 38.5 percent, according to the FBI's crime...

Lowrance Elementary student Valery Nguyen-Au, 12, correctly spells "oakenshaw" to become the winner of the Memphis-Shelby County Spelling Bee on...

With a stripped-down menu based on familiar comfort food, Kelly English, chef/owner of Memphis' Restaurant Iris, won the Memphis stop of the Cochon 555 cooking competition Saturday...

Reservist Jeff Brantley makes a pencil etching of Marvin G. Shields' name on the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall that was displayed in Bartlett last year. The Wall will be on display in...

The Memphis Horns celebrated 25 years together in 1992 with a concert at The Pyramid, attended by many of the artists they had performed and recorded with as a duo. Trumpeter Wayne Jackson (right)...

Browning's "science" may have been illusory, but the threat is real, and it includes DeSoto County, says Latham, Mississippi's Emergency Management...

Groundbreaking for the first of 200 Yoshino cherry trees to be planted Downtown will begin on the south end of Mud Island River Park Tuesday with the first blooms expected by...

The local Chamber of Commerce kicked off the speed networking events, called Biscuits & Business, several years ago for its members. The organization's executive director had seen it in...

Memphian Charles "Lil Buck" Riley, 23, an expert of the style that looks like a combination of Michael Jackson's Moonwalk and the funky robot, is slated to appear in the...

Because honestly, it sounds as if the East Shelby County residents living in the unincorporated rural suburb known as Fisherville, the folks who currently are urging the state legislature to decouple...

But Memphis' growth, indeed its economic survival, has always been predicated on its ability to gobble up adjacent territories and the sales and property tax revenue they could...

Online course: The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks (MDWFP) is offering an online Boater Education Course. Any person born after June 30, 1980, must have successfully completed...

People say Mo’ Money Taxes is withholding their tax refunds after a delay in getting their checks The owner claims the problem lies in a software glitch, but has been fixed He assures people...

MEMPHIS, TN— The CEO of Mo’ Money offers an apology but says the refund delays aren't his company's fault. "I apologize for any inconvenience that you were caused. Trust me...

Isaiah Canaan, Latreze Mushatt and Jewuan Long each scored 11 points and 10th-ranked Murray State remained the lone undefeated men's team in Division I, beating Tennessee-Martin 65-58 Saturday...

Isaiah Canaan, Latreze Mushatt and Jewuan Long each scored 11 points and 9th-ranked Murray State beat Tennessee-Martin 65-58 Saturday night. The Racers (23-0, 11-0 Ohio Valley Conference) brought...

A Memphis police officer was charged with assault and vandalism, arrested early this morning after she allegedly attacked her boyfriend and damaged Shelby County Sheriff's squad car while being...

A Raleigh woman was arrested Friday after police reported finding her three children left unattended in a car while she had her nails done. In the car, police reported finding a loaded handgun, but...

Police reported responding to the house in the 3900 block of Martindale Avenue off Raleigh-Millington Road shortly before 11 p.m., where the man was being held down by several family members and...

The Memphis Fire Department reported responding to the fire at 6201 Summer Hills Circle in the Summer Hills apartment complex shortly after 9 a.m., where about 42 emergency response personnel made...

Investigators from Memphis Police Department's Vehicle Theft Bureau reported that the vehicles -- mostly older model, broken down cars left unoccupied on the side of the road -- were taken in...

Hundreds pray around the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center Participants say only way to a better Memphis, is prayer Community prayer is the first of...

Jackson connected on all 12 of his free throws including six in the final 2:12, part of Memphis (16-7) closing the game with a 21-6 rally. Will Barton and Tarik Black finished with 13 points apiece...

Library of Congress Wagons like these in Atlanta were the favored form of transportation for Federal generals to bring their armies into East...

Modern historians agree that the battles of Forts Henry and Donelson, sometimes called the "Twin Rivers" campaign, were important dominoes that fell early in the conflict, playing a key...

Durant scored 36 points and hit the tiebreaking 3-pointer in the final minute to lift the Thunder to a 101-94 victory against Memphis on Friday night in a rematch of their epic Western Conference...

Memphis, TN (abc24.com) - More problems for Mo' Money Tax Service, as it continues to grapple with a computer glitch that has left many customers waiting on their tax refunds."We got to pay...

MEMPHIS, TN (abc24.com) - The City of Memphis is strapped for cash, but that doesn't stop it from handing out free money to fix up homes. Thanks to a Memphis city program, taxpayers picked up...

MEMPHIS, TN (abc24.com) – Memphis is getting better; at least according to Forbes Magazine. Forbes reports in its latest issue that Memphis is no longer among the ten worst cities in America. A...

Burglars have hit her home over and over and over. A security system hasn't stopped them. Neither have security bars. Now she's reached her breaking point. See the drastic step she's...

Tristan King and Geoff Irwin beat goalie Andrew Engelage in Utah's third straight shootout and Ontario escaped with a 3-2 ECHL victory at the Maverik...