Katie Riordan
ReporterKatie is a freelance contributor to WKNO. She's always eager to hear your story ideas. You can email her at kriordan@wkno.org
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A Tennessee man who faced execution appeared in court Tuesday for the first time since the state agreed that his intellectual disability made him ineligible for a death sentence. -
For more than a decade, Mississippi has waged a legal dispute over groundwater pumped from wells surrounding the city of Memphis. Mississippi says the water is theirs, and they’ve asked the Supreme Court to let them collect $615 million in compensation for it.
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The Memphis City Council passed new regulations Tuesday designed to protect the city’s drinking water from industrial contamination risks, although city leaders delayed voting on two other ordinances backed by environmental activists.
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A local U.S. Army veteran has been trying to help a former Afghan colleague and translator and his family escape the Taliban.
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Immigration advocates and Shelby County officials are asking residents for help in their efforts to resettle refugees from Afghanistan in the Midsouth.
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Birders flocked to Pickwick Dam and Reservoir to spot rare visitors from the coast, brought here by the winds of Hurricane Ida.
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Tennessee is the latest state to take its fight over masks in schools to a judge.
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They helped the U.S. during the occupation of Afghanistan. Now, they watch an exodus unfold from their new home in the Midsouth with a growing sense of urgency.
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A Memphis refugee resettlement agency is advocating for the city to take in more Afghan nationals who aided the U.S. government during its two-decades long war in the country.
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Transmission of COVID-19 is on the rise in Shelby County as a more contagious strain of the virus, known as the Delta variant, spreads across the country.
