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WKNO Daily Newscast | Friday, December 5, 2025

— About 22,000 runners will take to the streets of Memphis tomorrow morning for the 24th annual St. Jude Memphis Marathon.

— A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation audit of the Memphis Police Department’s crime statistics yielded no real findings.

— The United States Postal Service has leased a more than 920,000-square-foot industrial building in southeast Memphis for a mail sorting operation.

— The Downtown Memphis Commission’s Design Review Board has approved façade designs and renovation plans for the restaurant Catherine and Mary’s and the brewery Soul & Spirits.


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Reporting from the gates of Graceland to the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, Christopher has covered Memphis news, arts, culture and politics for more than 20 years in print and on the radio. He is currently WKNO's News Director and Senior Producer at the University of Memphis' Institute for Public Service Reporting. Join his conversations about the Memphis arts scene on the WKNO Culture Desk Facebook page.