Crime and Memphis seem to be said in the same breath more often than they should. Former Memphis resident Amber Mitchell said she moved out of the city to Bartlett after having her first child, when she felt it was time to stop fighting a losing battle. "In the few years I lived in Midtown, my car was ...
In May 1890, Izey Eugene Meacham purchased a tract of land from the John George Deaderick Plantation, divided the land into plots and began selling them to African-Americans. The community that formed was Orange Mound, a moniker earned from the mock orange trees that grew by the Deaderick plantation ...
As fall creeps into winter the days are growing shorter, colder and darker. It’s enough to put anyone in a bit of a funk, but for many people, it’s more serious than that. According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, 4 to 6 percent of the United States suffers from winter depression, ...
After more than 20 years of marriage and two children, the discovery of a little black book in her husband’s car shattered Sandra Lee’s world. The address book belonged to another woman and led Lee to a string of women that her husband had been having affairs with across the small Maryland community ...
On Halloween night just after 11:00 p.m. students at the University of Memphis were alerted by text message and e-mail to an attempted robbery that happened earlier in the evening near campus. The Clery Act is the main reason for that. Attempted robbery falls into one of the seven current categories ...
Recent commercials by satellite television provider DirecTV have faced harsh criticism from one advocacy group claiming the ad depicts suffers of a serious condition in a negative way. The ad in question features Rob Lowe and a self-described socially awkward version of himself with a variety of problems, ...
Early voting in Tennessee’s midterm elections has started, and voters are being asked to do more than select elected officials. Tennesseans will be voting on four proposed amendments to the state constitution. In order to break down the amendments, The Daily Helmsman talked to Brian Fitzpatrick, a ...
Malala Yousefzai was just 14 years old when she learned that Taliban forces in Pakistan had put a price on her head, and last week she became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. She learned the news where any 17-year-old activist for children’s education would be—in school. “However, ...
The last two years have seen some drastic shifts in the public school landscape of Shelby County. In 2011, the Memphis City Schools Board voted to abandon their special district charter and have the administration of the city schools fall back to Shelby County Schools. The issue was put to a ballot, ...
Sept. 13 marked the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Violence Against Women Act, a congressional bill that aims to decrease the rate of domestic violence across the United States. Since the adoption of VAWA in 1994, the whitehouse.gov website reports that the rate of intimate partner violence ...
