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Tennessee, United States
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Aug. 23, 2024, 7:20 PM ET (AP)
A 2nd ex-Memphis officer pleads guilty in Tyre Nichols' death. He could serve 40 years in prison
Aug. 22, 2024, 5:09 PM ET (AP)
A 2nd ex-Memphis officer accused in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols is changing his plea
Aug. 17, 2024, 7:25 PM ET (AP)
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Matsuyama, McCarthy tied for lead in opening PGA Tour playoff event
Aug. 16, 2024, 4:25 PM ET (AP)
Woman charged in brazen plot to extort Elvis Presley's family and auction off Graceland
Memphis, city, seat (1819) of Shelby county, extreme southwestern Tennessee, U.S. It lies on the Chickasaw bluffs above the Mississippi River where the borders of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee meet. Memphis is Tennessee’s most populous city and is at the center of the state’s second largest metropolitan area. Aside from West Memphis, Arkansas, Memphis’s main suburbs include Arlington, Bartlett, Collierville, Germantown, Lakeland, and Millington in Tennessee and Horn Lake, Olive Branch, and Southaven in Mississippi. Area 295 square miles (764 square km). Pop. (2000) city, 690,743; Memphis MSA, 1,205,204; (2010) city 646,889; Memphis MSA 1,316,100. Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto ...(100 of 979 words)