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Tennessee, United States
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Cancer survivor helps inspire college basketball doubleheader exhibition to benefit St. Jude
• Oct. 14, 2024, 11:15 PM ET (ABC News (U.S.))
2 ex-officers convicted in fatal beating of Tyre Nichols get home detention while 1 stays in jail
• Oct. 7, 2024, 5:24 PM ET (AP)
Some perplexed at jury's mixed verdict in trial for 3 former officers in Tyre Nichols' death
• Oct. 4, 2024, 6:14 PM ET (AP)
Mixed verdict for 3 Memphis officers convicted in Tyre Nichols' fatal beating
• Oct. 3, 2024, 10:16 PM ET (AP)
Police delivered a 'beatdown' that killed Tyre Nichols, prosecutor says in trial closing
• Oct. 2, 2024, 8:43 PM ET (AP)
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)