Richard Ransom

Jun 17, 2024 | localmemphis.com | Richard Ransom

MEMPHIS, Tennessee — People who helped bring the $5.6 billion BlueOval City project to Haywood County believe it will transform our region's economy. In Sept. of 2021, when Ford Motor Company announced the BlueOval City project in West Tennessee, many wondered if the company would be an economic gamechanger for the only major Tennessee city that seems stuck, especially when it comes to the Memphis metro area's need to grow its middle class.

Dec 14, 2023 | localmemphis.com | Richard Ransom |Judy Black

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Mayor-elect Paul Young announced one of the most important decisions of his new administration on Thursday. Young told ABC 24 News first that he is keeping Police Chief C.J. Davis as the city's top cop. In exclusive interviews, the mayor-elect told anchor Richard Ransom that he believes Davis can bring the new energy he wants to see in the crime fight, while Chief Davis expressed her belief that she is meant to be in Memphis at this moment. "We've had significant conversations.

Oct 26, 2023 | mdpi.com | Mubashir Hassan |Saba Shahzadi |Richard Ransom |Andrzej Kloczkowski

1. IntroductionMushrooms are the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting bodies of specific species of the fungi kingdom, typically growing above ground on soil. The existence of fungi has been observed in all climatic zones, primarily on land, but also in water (fresh and salt). By 2020, approximately 148,000 species of mushrooms had been discovered, but the actual number is much higher. About 2000 new species are discovered every year. About 90% of fungi remain unknown.

Sep 7, 2023 | localmemphis.com | Richard Ransom

ABC24 is partnering with the Tri-State Defender to bring you a live 90-minute debate with six candidates vying to be mayor of Memphis. The “Your Voice, Your Vote: 2023 Mayoral Debate” is Monday night at 5:30 p.m., right before ABC’s first Monday Night Football game of the year. Weeknight Anchor Richard Ransom will be host and moderator.  He’ll be joined on the panel with ABC24 Political Analyst Otis Sanford and the Tri-State Defender’s Education Columnist, Curtis Weathers.

Aug 26, 2023 | localmemphis.com | Richard Ransom |Gus Carrington

MEMPHIS, Tenn — Don Sundquist, former Tennessee congressman and two-term governor, has died overnight at Baptist hospital in Memphis at the age of 87, friends confirmed to ABC24 Sunday morning. Governor Bill Lee's office shared the news stating that Sundquist passed peacefully, "surrounded by family, following surgery and a short illness." The Illinois native was the most recent governor to hail from West Tennessee during his time in office from 1995 to 2003.