June 8 – A skydiving plane carrying twenty people crashes shortly after take-off from the Tullahoma Regional Airport. Four passengers are transported to hospitals, and there are no fatalities.[4]
June 9 – Representative Mark Green (R) announces he will be retiring from congress to take a job in the private sector.[5]
June 15 – A man scales a subdivision fence and rings the doorbell of MemphisMayorPaul Young. The man is arrested three days later and charged with attempted kidnapping.[6]
July 29 – Four family members are found dead in a Tiptonville home, with the infant son of two of the victims found alive. A relative of the victims, Austin Drummond, has been arrested as of August 5, 2025.[8]
August 12 – Four people are killed by floods in Hamilton County, including a family of three who are killed by a falling tree in East Ridge.[10][11]
August 21 – A man accused of organizing the 2021 murder of Memphis-based rapper Young Dolph is found not guilty of first-degree murder.[12]
August 22 – Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who was wrongfully deported in March, is released from a Putnam County jail so he can serve home detention in Maryland. He is facing human smuggling charges.[13]
August 29 – Authorities announce that late McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser, whose wife Pauline's 1967 murder inspired the 1973 movie Walking Tall, was likely the one who killed his wife and staged the scene to make it appear they were ambushed.[14]
September 15 – Trump signs an executive order sending the National Guard and federal law enforcement agencies to Memphis.[15]
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