City hopes to save Franklin home

The Memphis mayor’s office is pitching in to help figure out the future of the dilapidated house where soul singer Aretha Franklin was born, a lawyer said Thursday. Alan Crone, special counsel to Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, told a judge a working group from the mayor’s office plans to assist other stakeholders concerned about the preservation and future use of the historic home. Franklin was born in the house in 1942.