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I’ve watched two American cities make opposite choices about the same problem.As a young man, I worked in Memphis: first as a traveling salesman, then as a law student, and finally as an attorney at a Memphis law firm. As an associate lawyer, I dreamed of escaping the daily grind by writing a great American novel. A fellow named John Grisham beat me to it, writing a book called “The Firm,” which was loosely based on my then-Memphis law firm, Baker Donelson. I guess that is why, many years later, I’m still a practicing attorney and John Grisham has written...

ELON JUST CALLED MEMPHIS ENVIRONMENTALISTS' BLUFF WITH 550 ACRES OF SOLAR xAI announced 88 acres of solar panels around the Colossus supercomputer in Memphis. Environmental groups have been screaming about grid load and gas generators for months. Now they're getting 550 acres of renewable energy. Environmental activists claimed xAI would "strain the grid" and "rely on fossil fuels." Elon's response? Deploy more solar capacity than most cities see in a decade. The local state rep who complained loudest said xAI "does not care about the people who live here." Those people are about to have the most advanced solar infrastructure...

A Tennessee state court judge temporarily blocked on Monday Republican Governor Bill Lee's deployment of National Guard troops to the city of Memphis, ruling that the use of troops was likely not legal under the state's militia law. Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal of the Davidson County Chancery Court in Nashville said the militia law required Tennessee's General Assembly to call in the National Guard for public safety. She ruled that crime rates in Memphis were not a "grave emergency" or "disaster" that would authorize Lee to send troops in his role as commander-in-chief of the state’s military forces. Her order...

The U.S. Marshals Service has located and returned dozens of missing children in Memphis, Tennessee, over the past several weeks, the law enforcement agency announced. While few details were provided, the service said that 101 children were safely returned over a 40-day operation, according to a brief Nov. 8 press release issued by the agency. “We are happy that we have been able to use our fugitive hunting skills to assist local and state authorities with finding these missing children,” Emily Williams, a U.S. Marshals spokeswoman, said in a statement. “What a testament to our partnerships to be able to...

XAI: TODAY, ON SITE, WE HAVE OVER 2,000 WORKERS BUILDING THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL COMPUTER “Today, on site, we have over 2,000 workers building the world’s most powerful computer. Thank you to the amazing, hard-working men and women of Memphis for all you do!” Source: xAI

President Donald Trump declared that he will escalate his military deployments in major cities to curb crime, a move that has met with controversy. The president addressed American service members in Japan on Monday, touting the strength of the U.S. military and his administration’s approach to foreign and domestic security. “We’ve just approved the biggest budget in the history—one over a trillion dollars,” he said. Trump further highlighted the excellence of the U.S. Navy and celebrated the longstanding alliance with Japan’s government. A core theme of the president’s speech was restoring law and order and protecting public safety it American...

“Crime has slowed down. It look like a totally different city..” I voted for this!! 🔥👇🏼

After decades of dead ends, Austin, Texas, police on Friday named deceased serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers as the suspect in the city’s infamous yogurt shop murders. The announcement follows decades without answers in the December 1991 killings of four teenage girls—Amy Ayers, Eliza Thomas, and sisters Sarah and Jennifer Harbison—at the “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt!” shop in Austin. The girls, aged 13, 15, and 17, were bound, gagged, and shot, before the shop was set on fire. The breakthrough comes with notable advancements in forensic DNA testing and renewed attention from an HBO docuseries about the case. Not...

AUSTIN, Texas — More than three decades after four teen girls were found dead inside a burned-down yogurt shop in North Austin, investigators say they finally know who killed them. Law enforcement sources confirmed to KVUE Senior Reporter Tony Plohetski that the 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders have been solved using genetic genealogy technology. The perpetrator has been identified as American serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers, who died by suicide in 1999. Brashers’s DNA profile has previously been connected with a 1990 murder in Greenville, South Carolina; the 1997 rape of a 14-year-old in Memphis; and the 1998 double murder of...

President Donald Trump signed a memo Monday establishing a task force in Memphis, Tennessee, that would mobilize the National Guard and other federal law enforcement agencies to crack down on crime, similar to steps taken in Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump appeared to announce that his crime crackdown will spread to the very blue city of Memphis, in the red state of Tennessee. During his appearance on Friday on "Fox and Friends," President Trump talked about the success his administration has had after enacting a 30-day federalization of local law enforcement in Washington, D.C., before he revealed the next Democrat-run city that could see a surge of officers. "Look at what we did in D.C.," Trump said. "We took D.C., probably the single-worst place in the country in terms of crime. There's no crime. It's a crime-free area."...

President Trump announced Friday that Memphis would be the next city to get a federal policing surge — and the second following Washington, DC. “We’re going to Memphis. Memphis is that’s the next — deeply troubled and the mayor is happy. The Democrat mayor, the mayor is happy. And the governor, Tennessee, the governor is happy,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends.” “Deeply troubled — we’re going to fix that, just like we did Washington. I would have preferred going to Chicago,” Trump said. Trump said the move was pitched to him by a railroad executive, serving on the board...

MEMPHIS — For decades, this storied American city has watched companies come but mostly go, its vacant storefronts and blighted buildings a reminder of its days as a thriving manufacturing hub and the painful decline that followed as those jobs vanished.As Paul Young, the city’s mayor, puts it, Memphis has been “the city people forgot about.”Then last summer, Memphis landed what Young and local business leaders called the city’s largest corporate investment in a generation — a “transformative” development for a place that has struggled to convince outsiders of its continued potential.The project was something every city dreams of, Young...

U.S. Fire that destroyed historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis was intentionally set, investigators say By Updated on: May 21, 2025 / 6:11 PM EDT / CBS/AP The fire that destroyed the Clayborn Temple, a historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign in 1968, was intentionally set, investigators said Wednesday. The Memphis Fire Department said the fire on April 28 was started on the interior of the church, and authorities are searching for a person of interest. Memphis Fire Chief Gina Sweat last month described the inside of the church...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A court affidavit identifies the two Booker T. Washington High School students who were killed in a broad-daylight shooting in South Memphis — Christian Brown, 17, and Darrius Wadley, 18. One of four suspected gunmen was arrested after he was shot and dropped off at a hospital, according to new information from the court system. Valdemar Patterson, aka Valdemar Richards, 18, is so far the only suspect in custody. He is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Police say last Thursday, an Infiniti pulled into the South City apartment complex at Mississippi Boulevard and Lauderdale. Surveillance...

A man in Memphis, Tennessee, was accidentally shot by his own dog earlier this month. The incident, which occurred in the early hours of the morning on March 10, came as a nasty shock when the man was sleeping, according to WHBQ-TV in Memphis. The man was identified as Jerald Kirkwood by WJW-TV in Cleveland. The one-year-old pit bull known as Oreo jumped up to join the man and his girlfriend as they were asleep. But the animal’s paw jammed in the trigger.

Police in Memphis, Tennessee, arrested five men on Monday accused of blocking traffic while dancing — and even twerking — according to reports. The police report describes seeing a 2016 Chevy Malibu stopped at a downtown intersection. Despite it being a green light, the vehicle was stopped. Police then observed four men twerking around the vehicle and one man dancing on the hood.

He built the world’s fastest car. He sends starships to space faster – and cheaper – than NASA. But what the world’s richest man is planning at a remote facility in Memphis may be his greatest achievement to date. Recently, earth’s most powerful billionaire revealed a giant AI supercomputer 10 times more powerful than the technology used to create ChatGPT. Some are even calling it a “ChatGPT killer.” The crazy part? He has plans to double its power in a matter of weeks … and double it again by this summer. It’s the new pinnacle of AI technology. World-famous venture...

A 26-year-old Memphis woman was arrested on Christmas Eve after allegedly assaulting a nurse at Methodist South Hospital, stating she did not want to be treated by a white attendant. The incident occurred on Tuesday when the woman, Dashawna Williams, reportedly punched a nurse in the face with a closed fist while receiving treatment at the hospital. According to law enforcement, Williams admitted to striking the nurse because of her race. Officers responded to the scene and took Williams into custody. She has been charged with assault. Authorities noted that Williams is believed to have mental health conditions, and crisis...

Another day, another campus hate crime hoax. This time it is at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. “Thanks to the tireless efforts of our Campus Safety officers and the Memphis Police Department, the investigation into the hate crime that occurred recently on our campus has ended with the identification of the perpetrator and the conclusion this incident was fabricated,” Rhodes College told The College Fix via email on Thursday. “This individual has admitted responsibility,” the media team told The Fix. “This matter has caused enormous pain to our community, and we are taking the appropriate steps to hold this individual...