On Friday, officials from Memphis, Gas, Light & Water released a statement regarding city councilman Edmund Ford’s utility bill. Read the letter here.

Memphis Finance Director Roland McElrath gave members of the City Council good news Tuesday …

When the late football booster Logan Young went on trial two years ago, the core of his defense was that Young was a free-spending drunk and a braggart. When John Ford goes on trial in April, his defense may well be that the former senator is, as he might put it, a lying motherf—–.

Tuesday’s federal court hearing was a reminder that expressions that might be considered fighting words in another context can be an alibi in the courtroom…

Mayor Willie Herenton’s calling his fairgrounds redevelopment proposal Project Nexus, since the land in question sits at the center of the city proper. But with his $150 million proposed football stadium at the project’s nexus, the name seems especially fitting….

Memphian Kallen Esperian is scheduled to sing at the Education Without Borders conference scheduled for February 25-27 at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi….

The always-interesting GatesofMemphis blog has posted his first-draft of a computer simulation of the ride on the Zippin Pippin roller-coaster. Try not to barf.

Featured in this week’s issue of the satirical weekly The Onion: “Justin Timberlake Apathetically Crowned King Of Pop.”

Yesterday, a federal employee at the Clifford Davis Federal Building opened an envelope containing white powder. …

“Sometimes you’re dead if you do and dead if you don’t.

“As Shelby County citizens have discovered, the split between the county’s various emergency response systems has created problems that have residents clamoring for change …