New questions are surfacing after the arrest of a Bartlett man for sexual battery inside a church.

The Dakota Access pipeline system leaked more than 100 gallons (380 liters) of oil in two separate incidents in North Dakota in March as crews prepared the pipeline for operation.

A new animal species is now living at Memphis Zoo!

A Hub City man is behind bars in connection to a weekend shooting that injured his girlfriend. 

Evidence from Chief Consumer Investigator Andy Wise's investigation enabled Shelby County Sheriff's detectives to build a case against real estate impostor John Ferguson.

Classrooms will open for students in August throughout Memphis, but the schools are searching to fill those classrooms with teachers.

The Mississippi Municipal League recently awarded The City of Hattiesburg with another excellence award. 

Investigators in Hancock County and Waveland are looking for two suspects in a case involving auto burglaries and several instances of credit card fraud.

Another multimillion-dollar deal done, and development investments for the year have soared to nearly $165 million for a Memphis-based company. Jernigan Capital Inc. — provider of debt and equity capital to private developers, owners and operators of self-storage facilities — closed a $9.2 million self-storage development investment commitment in Tampa, Florida. The new construction facility will have roughly 71,000 net rentable square feet. The self-storage development will be built near the…

Alcoholic candy, five-pound gummy bears and "Blue Suede Shoe" fudge are now available on Beale Street, thanks to Beatrice Bryant. Bryant is the general manager and head fudge-ologist for the newly opened Beale Sweets Sugar Shack at 156 Beale Street. The candy store is meant to give kids something to do on Beale Street and has the potential to draw more daytime traffic to the street, which has been a challenge at times for the district. "You think about a lot of the iconic streets in the United…

A Memphis-based lab and sample management services company with small, mid-sized, and large pharmaceutical and medical device clients has announced its expansion. CirQuest Labs LLC is moving from its home in the Medical District to a 18,550-square-foot laboratory facility and office space in Binghampton. The company's CEO and founder, Dr. Lisa K. Jennings, signed the lease at 140 Collins Street to expand services as well as provide guidance to startup companies in the research and development stage.…

Real estate tracking portal Zillow is close to creating a business model in home buyers can skip the traditional "middle man" step of using a brokerage. A new column in VentureBeat argues that Zillow, which currently is the starting point for 3 out of 4 buyers looking for a home, is effectively creating an end run around brokerages by providing much of the information they used to charge agents and buyers for online and for free. That's created a process where real estate agents are beginning to…

Amazon.com Inc. has launched a new team to build air-traffic control software for its budding fleet of delivery drones. The Prime Air Development Center will employ a dozen software engineers and developers at Amazon’s Clichy office outside Paris, Seattle-based Amazon said in a statement. Amazon chose France to launch the air traffic control project to tap the country’s aviation engineering talent, said Vice President for Global Innovation Policy and Communications Paul Misener. Prime Air…

During 2016, there were 4 million passengers at Memphis International Airport, an increase of 6.4 percent from the previous year. But which airline saw the most passengers? Today, MBJ is giving web readers a sneak peek at the top five passenger airlines, ranked by total passengers at Memphis International Airport in 2016, from our May 19 weekly edition. The full list — including total number of passengers in 2016 and 2015, total passengers percent change, passengers enplaned and deplaned in 2016,…

With the approval of its fiscal year 2018 budget, Memphis International Airport is decreasing terminal rates and charges by almost 13 percent — a change that's especially good for the airport's largest tenant. The Memphis Shelby County Airport Authority's Board of Commissioners (MSCAA) passed an $120.4 million budget for fiscal year 2018 at its meeting Monday, May 22. The airport's annual budget for the fiscal year, which runs from July 1 to June 30, sets the fees and charges paid by airlines. William…

The shooting of a 77-year-old woman in Mississippi has been ruled a justifiable homicide.

Sheriff’s deputies arrested four people in connection with a series of burglaries and thefts at an equipment store.

Monday's trash pickup will be delayed.

Closing arguments are underway in the trial for Caleb Cannon. He is accused of killing the mother of his child, Nikki Burgess, on Memorial Day weekend in 2014.

One person was injured when he was shot while attending a party at a Murfreesboro apartment complex early Monday morning.