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WKNO Daily
The WKNO Daily newscast provides the latest headlines for Memphis and the Mid-South. Listen to newscasts from WKNO News each weekday morning live during NPR's Morning Edition from 6:00 to 9:00 AM.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Thursday, November 5, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — Governor-elect Marsha Blackburn shared the stage Wednesday morning with outgoing Governor Bill Lee. — Rep. Justin J. Pearson has…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Wednesday, November 4, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — Election Results: Marsha Blackburn wins the governor’s race. District 5: Charlie Hatcher (R), District 8: David Kustoff (R)…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Tuesday, November 3, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — Voters will head to the polls today for the midterm elections. — The Shelby County District Attorney’s office has released four…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Monday, November 2, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — Shelby County posted the highest early voting turnout of the state’s 95 counties this election cycle, with about 183,000 ballots…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Friday, October 30, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — Memphis police responded to a disturbance call at an election site Wednesday involving the mother of congressional candidate…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Thursday, October 29, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — The state-appointed oversight board created for Memphis-Shelby Schools will be prohibited from making any decisions for another…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Wednesday, October 28, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — State Senator Brent Taylor, the Republican candidate for Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District, has acknowledged to sending…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Tuesday, October 27, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — The Shelby County Commission will remain party to the current lawsuit over the state takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools. —…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Monday, October 26, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — The Shelby County Board of Commissioners will consider whether to pull out of a lawsuit challenging the state’s takeover of the…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Friday, October 23 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — Senator Marsha Blackburn has stirred controversy by posting a video of her dancing to Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” Political…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Thursday, October 22, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — Two state legislators from Memphis are vying for Congress based partially on their track record on sensitive environmental…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Wednesday, October 21, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — In a divided vote on Tuesday, the Memphis City Council rejected an indefinite moratorium on new data centers. — Another major…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Tuesday, October 20, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — A Shelby County Chancery Court Judge has put another halt to the state takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools. — The fatal…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Monday, October 19, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — Last week’s opening day turnout of early voting for the November 3rd elections rivaled the 2018 midterms. — About 200 people…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Friday, October 16, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — A judge has ruled that the state takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools can finally proceed. — State Rep. and congressional…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Thursday, October 15, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — The University of Memphis’ Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law is marking the highest rate of students who passed the Tennessee bar…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Wednesday, October 14, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — Early voting begins today in Shelby County for the November 3rd midterm elections. — After just one meeting, a state oversight…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Tuesday, October 13, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — Shelby County commissioners took an initial vote Monday on a data center moratorium for unincorporated areas of the county. —…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Monday, October 12, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — Christa Pike, the woman who survived Tennessee’s attempt to kill her by lethal injection, has left the hospital and is back in…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Friday, October 9, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — Remnants from Hurricane Isaias are expected to hit the Mid-South on Saturday morning, bringing periods of heavy rainfall and…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Thursday, October 8, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — The Memphis City Council will reconvene this afternoon to resume a contentious meeting cut short Tuesday. — Many Memphians saw a…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Wednesday, October 7, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — In the face of growing community anger over local data center expansion, the Memphis City Council voted 7 to 5 on Tuesday to…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Tuesday, October 6, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — Republican US Senator Marsha Blackburn, frontrunner to replace Gov. Bill Lee, has refused to debate her opponents in the…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Monday, October 5, 2026
(Nick Newsom / wknofm.org ) — The man who created Tennessee’s lethal injection protocols, Frank Strada, is stepping down at the Department of Correction after…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Friday, October 2, 2026
US Senator and Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Marsha Blackburn is suing former Special Counsel Jack Smith over his subpoenas for her phone records while his…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Thursday, October 1, 2026
Four DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office deputies have been cleared of wrongdoing in a fatal shooting.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Shelby County’s new Assessor of Property says the number of vacant office buildings in Downtown Memphis are creating problems for future government budgets.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Tuesday, September 29, 2026
A federal appeals court has struck down part of a Tennessee anti-abortion law that made it a crime to counsel someone under age 18 about abortion access, even…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Monday, September 28, 2026
A Tennessee judge granted Dolly Parton’s estate a temporary restraining order last week against the late singer’s nephew Bryan Seaver and his private security…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Friday, September 25, 2026
A federal class action lawsuit was filed this week on behalf of residents affected by noise generated by SpaceXAI’s power plant and data centers in South…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Thursday, September 24, 2026
A federal judge in Nashville has ruled that the Tennessee Highway Patrol can keep working with federal immigration authorities while a constitutional case…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Newly elected Shelby County Clerk La Sonya Hall said Tuesday that her office is about halfway through a backlog of thousands of car titles and vehicle…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Tuesday, September 22, 2026
A lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the Memphis Safe Task Force’s use of Tennessee’s so-called Halo Law will be heard in federal court.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Monday, September 21, 2026
As Memphis Mayor Paul Young looks ahead at next year’s reelection campaign, he is also facing growing criticism over his stance on Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Friday, September 18, 2026
As Memphis enters its season of fall festivals and outdoor events, some of the highest temperatures of the summer remain.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Thursday, September 17, 2026
A class action lawsuit filed on behalf of detainees at 201 Poplar alleges that people held at the county’s criminal justice center face “life-threatening and…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Two Memphis City Council Members will be asking the Memphis Safe Task Force to leave the city by next month.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Tuesday, September 15, 2026
A federal court has scheduled oral arguments over the legality of the state takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools for September 24.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Monday, September 14, 2026
Shelby County Sheriff Anthony Buckner says a new county jail complex could be built in phases over multiple years, rather than all at once.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Friday, September 11, 2026
A federal court has ruled that the Tennessee Valley Authority broke the law when moving forward with new a gas plant near Knoxville.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Thursday, September 10, 2026
New Shelby County Clerk LaSonya Hall told county officials that a new backlog of unprocessed car titles and registration packets were waiting for her when she…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Wednesday, September 9, 2026
A Sumatran tiger at the Memphis Zoo has given birth to twin female cubs.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Research shows children who read regularly, especially for pleasure, do better in school, are more literate, and have stronger cognitive skills.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Saturday, September 5, 2026
As SpaceXAI expands its campus on the Memphis-Mississippi border, residents say noise pollution has become a major concern.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Friday, September 4, 2026
State Troopers played a supporting role in last Sunday’s ICE raid of a Memphis restaurant and bar, though officials have not so far acknowledged that the…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Thursday, September 3, 2026
The Sierra Club of Tennessee says the Trump administration's decision to scrap $7.6 billion in clean energy grants across the US has impacted eight specific…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Wednesday, September 2, 2026
An effort by some Memphis City Council members to place a moratorium on new data centers faces new hurdles as legal questions and alternate proposals emerged…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Tuesday, September 1, 2026
More than 100 people were detained in a major ICE raid overnight Saturday at a restaurant in the Berclair neighborhood.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Monday, August 31, 2026
Gov. Bill Lee’s office stated that the Tennessee National Guard will remain in place in Memphis, which was announced after an autopsy found that troops shot…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Friday, August 28, 2026
The man killed by a National Guard member in Downtown Memphis in July was shot in the back, according to the official autopsy released from the West Tennessee…
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Thursday, August 27, 2026
Tennessee will receive more than $751 million from a settlement with Meta over online protections for children.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Shelby County officials say new Rapid DNA testing technology could dramatically shorten the time it takes local police to solve crimes.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Tuesday, August 25, 2026
The National Civil Rights Museum is throwing its influence behind voter registration and engagement ahead of the Nov. 3 general elections.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Monday, August 24, 2026
More than 140,000 MLGW customers lost power during Saturday’s severe storm.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Friday, August 21, 2026
The Tennessee Valley Authority is raising electricity rates for data center operators.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Thursday, August 20, 2026
Kid University, a Cordova Childcare center where a 6-year-old girl died after being left on a hot school bus, has permanently closed.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Wednesday, August 19, 2026
A proposed moratorium on new data centers in the city passed its first reading at Tuesday’s Memphis City Council Meeting.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Memphis Police Chief CJ Davis says the city’s overall crime rate is poised to reach a 25-year low.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Monday, August 17, 2026
This week, the Memphis City Council will begin discussions on a new moratorium on data center developments in Shelby County.
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WKNO Daily Newscast | Friday, August 14, 2026
On Saturday night, Graceland marks the eve of Elvis Presley’s passing, though Elvis fans should expect a high temperature of 101 degrees.