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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Raymond James tower at 50 N. Front St. — still known to many as the Morgan Keegan building — will be converted into a mixed-use development with almost 300 residential apartments, its owner said. The building’s possible new name will be “Memphis Waterfront Tower,” according to information sent to WREG by […]

Newest Restaurant Report Card | If you want the latest Shelby County restaurant scores sent directly to your inbox, sign up for it today on WREG’s Newsletter here. Each week WREG is rounding up the highest and lowest scores from Shelby County restaurant inspections. Find more scores from Shelby County and other Tennessee counties here. Lowest: JJ’s Tropical Mexican Bar […]

UPDATE: A Memphis Airport representative said Friday that the airport is not affected by the 5G rollout. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — AT&T and Verizon will delay launching new wireless service near key airports after the nation’s largest airlines said the service would interfere with aircraft technology and cause massive flight disruptions. The decision from the telecommunication […]

RIPLEY, Miss. (AP) — An airport worker who knew how to take off but not land stole a small airplane Saturday and threatened to crash it into a Walmart, circling for five hours over unnerved Mississippians before ending the flight safely in a soybean field where police arrested him. Cory Wayne Patterson, 29, was uninjured […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn.– Representatives of Serenity Towers at Highland were feeling the heat in Shelby County Environmental Court Wednesday. Residents at Serenity complained about the air conditioning going out as temperatures reached summertime highs recently. It reportedly forced some residents to sleep in the lobby. Shelby County Environmental Court Judge Patrick Dandrige expressed his concerns to […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man was found dead Saturday in a vacant warehouse on Lamar Avenue near Park Avenue, police said. Officers were called at 1:10 p.m. to 2205 Lamar, where they found a male with an apparent gunshot wound. The victim was pronounced dead on the scene. Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers […]

video credit: Mary Ellen Rogers via Storyful Note: The spelling of the pilot’s first name has been corrected. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A pilot who circled his plane over north Mississippi for hours threatening to crash into a Walmart on Saturday morning landed in a bean field near Gravestown around 10 a.m. and was taken into […]

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. — Construction continues at a fast pace on the $300 million expansion to Southland Casino in West Memphis. There are plans to open the casino floor with 2,400 machines in April, as well as more table games, six additional restaurants and four bars. A towering 300-room hotel should open in June.    Southland’s […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A new effort is underway to save the city’s tallest building and remove an eyesore from the north end of Main Street. The Downtown Memphis Commission, in partnership with the Downtown Mobility Authority and the City of Memphis, has issued a request for proposal to try and find a developer to breathe […]

If you stumbled on the scene too late, you might have missed him there, bloodied and beaten. The officers’ demeanors seem untroubled and their work nonurgent as they mill at this quiet corner trading battle tales, a fist bump and a back pat. The police ranks have ballooned, but everyone seems to agree there’s nothing […]