Katie Riordan
Katie joined the WKNO team in 2019. 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.
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A long-time legal battle over ownership of interstate groundwater concluded Monday, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the City of Memphis.
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Young Dolph, a Memphis-made rapper who achieved national recognition, was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon while visiting a South Memphis bakery.
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The smaller dose of the vaccine should be available in more locations starting next week, according to Shelby County COVID officials.
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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.