As parts of the Mid-South continue to recover from devastating storms, people still found ways to make great things happen across the Mid-South this week. Here are five.
We’re taking a look at some of this week’s biggest business headlines impacting the Mid-South with Jacob Steimer, reporter for the Memphis Business Journal.
A handsome face graced the WMC Action News 5 newsroom Friday morning with a special visit from Arlo with the Humane Society of Memphis and Shelby County.
Local and state law enforcement officials gathered Friday to present an update regarding Memphis crime data of 2019 and violent crime reduction strategies and operations.
To kick off this Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, pioneers in civil rights history are being honored in Memphis. Nearly 60 years ago, three young African American students helped integrate Memphis City Schools by attending Bruce Elementary School.
A 13-year-old teen from Oxford, Mississippi who also happens to be a football player received a special surprise Friday morning on “Good Morning America.”
Recovering from abdominal surgery is tough. It takes the average person at least six weeks to get back to work. Now, there’s a new way to manage pain and get patients back to work much faster. The CDC said prescription opioid overuse for pain management costs the U.S. at least $78 billion a year.
A Tennessee lawmaker who burned a red light camera ticket and went viral for it, introduced a bill that would protect thousands of drivers from citations.
More than 5,500 hundred volunteers in 10 Mid-South counties took part in last year’s MLK Days of Service. This year, the number’s supposed to be even higher.
A day on the job ended in terror for workers inside a home near Binghampton. They were robbed at gunpoint as thieves took their tools, phones and even their clothes.
At a time in their lives when kids just wanted to be kids, a group of first graders known as the “Memphis 13” took the first steps toward integrating Memphis Schools. Now they’re being honored for their heroism.
With rail lines stretching coast to coast, Amtrak is pitching plans for a wider rail network in Tennessee. The plans include more trains and potentially two new routes.
Plans to remove a Confederate monument on the campus of Ole Miss were delayed Thursday, after the state’s Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) Board halted a vote planned for a morning meeting.
More donations are pouring in for the victims of two tornadoes that hit DeSoto County last weekend. Barely a shopper at the Southaven Superlo Foods went by without dropping a little something into the bucket.
Lakeland is making a big decision that will impact students and parents. Soon, high school students in Lakeland won’t have to wake up as early for school.
Your checklist for a good piece of luggage is probably pretty simple: It should hold what you need and be tough enough to survive baggage handlers when you have to check it. A Consumer Reports survey of more than 38,000 members reveals which brands to pick before you pack.
The New Orleans Police Department said it has obtained an arrest warrant for simple battery after Odell Beckham Jr. was seen in a video making contact with a security guard.
According to the district, they started the day anticipating repairs would be complete, but the ongoing outage prompted SCS to send students home at 11:30.
New video has been released of the suspects in a road rage shooting that shut down Sam Cooper Boulevard. Now a local lawmaker is vowing to PASS a bill to toughen sentences for road rage shootings.
Mississippi doesn't require preschool.But the state is pouring more money into those programs. Wednesday's day at the Capitol for the advocates was also about raising awareness of the work being done with the state's little ones.
In the first legislative session of 2020, the Tennessee state Senate passed its first bill of the year that would allow adoption agencies to deny LGBTQ couples based on religious beliefs, WTVF reported.
