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Tennessee Republicans tell Memphis to abandon gun reform or risk funding cuts

By Marianna Bacallao

August 26, 2024

In a joint statement, House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Senate Speaker Randy McNally said that the legislature “will not tolerate any attempts to go rogue and perform political sideshows.”

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Cameron Sexton, Elections 2024, General Assembly, memphis, Randy McNally, tnleg, Tyre Nichols

A 2nd ex-Memphis officer pleads guilty to civil rights violations in the killing of Tyre Nichols

By Jonathan Mattise, AP

August 23, 2024

Prosecutors recommended Friday that Emmitt Martin spend 40 years in prison for his part in Nichols’ killing.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press, memphis, Tyre Nichols

NashVillager Podcast: Going backwards on disease prevention

By Nina Cardona

August 13, 2024

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Why are HIV and syphilis on the rise among teens in one Tennessee city? Plus the local news for August 13, 2024.

Filed Under: Health Care, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: memphis

Tennessee will remove HIV-positive people convicted of sex work from violent sex offender list

By Kimberlee Kruesi, AP

July 22, 2024

HIV-positive people who were convicted in Tennessee of sex work under a decades-old aggravated prostitution law will no longer be required to face a lifetime registration as a “violent sex offender” under a lawsuit settlement finalized last week.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: HIV, lgbtq, memphis, sex work, shelby county

How Tennessee has been impacted by the fossil fuel byproduct ethylene oxide

By Caroline Eggers

June 21, 2024

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Sterilization Services of Tennessee, a simple brick building nestled between a railroad and interstate in Memphis, quietly raised cancer risks in nearby communities for nearly five decades before shutting down this year. 

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: ethylene oxide, fossil fuels, memphis, Military, pollution, war

Is Elvis’ Graceland actually up for sale? His granddaughter, alleging fraud, says no

By Rachel Treisman

May 21, 2024

Riley Keough, Elvis’ granddaughter and sole heir, says in a lawsuit that the company advertising a foreclosure sale of his Graceland property is using fraudulent documents — and may not exist at all.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Elvis Presley, Graceland, memphis

Should environmental racism be a factor in allowing industries to pollute? Tennessee’s attorney general says no.

By Caroline Eggers

April 23, 2024

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti joined a petition last week to prevent EPA from considering race when regulating pollution. 

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: cancer, chemicals, environmental justice, fossil fuels, memphis, pipeline, pollution

The country’s largest producer of eclipse glasses is in Tennessee

By Katie Riordan

April 7, 2024

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Millions of people will be wearing glasses next week to watch the total solar eclipse, and it’s likely they were made by a small business in Memphis.

Filed Under: Science, WPLN News Tagged With: memphis, solar eclipse

Tennessee rolls back police reform passed after the death of Tyre Nichols

By Marianna Bacallao

March 28, 2024

Police reform passed in the wake of Tyre Nichols’ death at the hands of Memphis police is now null and void. Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed into law a measure Thursday that prevents local governments from passing anything that would interfere with police stopping crime.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, John Gillespie, justin j. pearson, London Lamar, memphis, tnleg, Tyre Nichols

Tennessee poised to undo police reform Memphis enacted responding to Tyre Nichols’ death

By Blaise Gainey

March 14, 2024

Legislation designed to undo police traffic-stop reform in Memphis is heading to Governor Bill Lee’s desk.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, Joe Towns, John Gillespie, justin j. pearson, memphis, tnleg, tnpol, Torrey Harris, Tyre Nichols

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