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FILE – Denny Hamlin looks on prior to a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025, in Concord, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley, File)

Father of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin dies after house fire, mother critically injured

December 29, 2025 at 8:54 p.m.

Officials say the father of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin died and his mother was critically injured after a weekend fire heavily damaged the North Carolina home where they lived.

FILE - Guitarist, songwriter and record producer Steve Cropper poses Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey,File)

Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records’ Booker T and the M.G.’s, has died at age 84

December 3, 2025 at 4:12 p.m.

Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.’s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics “Green Onions,”...

FILE – Tennessee National Guard troops leap out of a truck at the Memphis Armory after being ordered into the city by Gov. Buford Ellington at the request of city officials, March 28, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. The guard was ordered after rioting and looting erupted midway through a march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in support of striking garbage workers. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell, File)

As the National Guard enters Memphis, memories of MLK and 1968 unrest resurface

October 11, 2025 at 4:15 p.m.

The city is a majority Black epicenter for civil rights, where residents remember the Guard responding during more than one period of unrest.

Smoke fills the air as debris covers the ground and vehicles after a powerful blast ripped through a military explosives manufacturing plant in Hickman County, Tenn., on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. (WTVF-TV via AP)

16 people died in a blast at a Tennessee explosives factory early Friday, the sheriff says

October 11, 2025 at 7:23 p.m.

A blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors, authorities said.

Personnel walk inside an immigration processing facility in Broadview, Ill., Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

National Guard troops seen patrolling in Memphis alongside local police

October 10, 2025 at 9:24 a.m.

National Guard troops were seen patrolling in Memphis for the first time on Friday, as part of President Donald Trump’s federal task force, which faces multiple legal challenges.

People demonstrate above Interstate 40 in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, against the deployment of the National Guard in Memphis. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Bondi and Hegseth rally federal agents and troops in Memphis as part of crime task force

October 1, 2025 at 6:35 p.m.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Wednesday rallied members of a federal law enforcement task force that has...

FILE – A portrait of Tyre Nichols is displayed at a memorial service for him on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023 in Memphis, Tenn. Nichols was killed during a traffic stop with Memphis Police on Jan. 7. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz, File

3 former Memphis officers acquitted in fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after he fled a traffic stop

May 7, 2025 at 4:12 p.m.

Three former Memphis officers were acquitted Wednesday of all state charges, including second-degree murder, in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after he ran away from a traffic stop, a...

Jamal Dupree, left, and La'Toya Yizar, right, comfort each other during a prayer vigil outside the federal courthouse as jury deliberations begin for the trial of three former Memphis police officers charged in the 2023 fatal beating of their brother, Tyre Nichols, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

3 officers convicted in Tyre Nichols fatal beating but 2 are acquitted of civil rights charges

October 3, 2024 at 5:16 p.m.

Three former Memphis officers have been convicted of charges of witness tampering in the 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.

FILE – The Rev. James Lawson Jr. speaks in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2015. Lawson, an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the civil rights movement gained traction, has died, his family said Monday, June 10, 2024. He was 95. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader’s family says

June 10, 2024 at 4:40 p.m.

The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has died, his...

FILE – Fans wait in line outside Graceland Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, in Memphis, Tenn. The granddaughter of Elvis Presley is fighting plans to publicly auction his Graceland estate in Memphis after a company tried to sell the property based on claims that a loan using the king of rock ’n’ roll’s former home as collateral was not repaid. A public auction for the estate had been scheduled for Thursday, May 23, 2024, but a Memphis judge blocked the sale after Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough sought a temporary restraining order and filed a lawsuit, court documents show. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill, File)

Graceland is not for sale, Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough says in lawsuit

May 21, 2024 at 3:42 p.m.

Elvis Presley’s estate is fighting what it says is a fraudulent scheme to auction off Graceland to the highest bidder.

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