Shelby County teachers stage die-in outside county building
Shelby County teachers held die-in in front of the county building Monday to demand safe schools locally, statewide and nationally as the coronavirus pandemic grows.
Shelby County teachers held die-in in front of the county building Monday to demand safe schools locally, statewide and nationally as the coronavirus pandemic grows.
District officials are also looking for community partners to help parents unable to be home with their school children.
The melee at Golf and Games is the kind of thing that can happen when kids don't have enough structure and supervision. Now that Shelby County Schools has decided to start out all-virtual, what does that mean for the broader community?
Memphis Police were called to Golf & Games Family Park at 5484 Summer Ave. on Saturday after youths stampeded and vandalized the business. Large crowds led to the business closing early.
The child was 11, according to the Shelby County Health Department website, and was being treated for another condition at hospitals in Memphis.
A second group of limited-service restaurant owners whose places were closed by a Health Department coronavirus directive spent a day in court seeking to reopen. As was the case with the first group that appeared in court last week, no ruling was issued.
Taking a question about past criminal convictions off the county's job application involves a set of complex rules for hiring those with a criminal past. The new ordinance pushes the consideration to later in the hiring process.
Some parents protested the district’s new in-person option for five days per week. Others feel the district made a difficult call, but the right call.
The Board of Mayor approved rezoning a few acres of land once part of Forest Hill Elementary. The rezoning will move a water tower the city previously proposed on Forest Hill Elementary property.
Collierville's Board of Mayor and Aldermen declared an aldermanic vacancy Monday. The action was taken following the death of Tom Allen, who died last week.
Despite calls from a White House task force leader for Tennessee to take stronger steps to curb the coronavirus spread, Gov. Bill Lee reiterated he doesn't plan to close down the state economy again and resisted the call for a statewide mask mandate.
On Sunday, July 26, the overall positivity rate of coronavirus tests in Shelby County reached 10%.
Injury has pushed Kyle Anderson back into the Grizzlies' starting lineup. A strong weekend — and perhaps the healing hands of time — suggests reason for optimism.
Officials hope to process absentee voting applications the same day they arrive up to Thursday's deadline to apply. Meanwhile, in-person early voting continues through Saturday, Aug. 1, at 26 locations. Election day is Aug. 6.
One of John Stuart Mill's arguments in “On Liberty” is often reduced to this sentence: Your freedom ends where my nose begins. Never has that way of putting it seemed more literal, noses being the coronavirus’s main point of entry into our bodies.
An attorney is looking into the deaths of three Shelby County Jail inmates who died within days of one another.
Also happening this week: Beale Street celebrates B.B. King’s 100th birthday, the city’s first Southern Trans Celebration brings advocacy Downtown.
Along with providing care for conditions like brain tumors and seizures, the institute is also training a new generation of neurologists.
Athlon Sports wrote a story recently that proclaimed The American is having a moment. Well, now it’s the Tigers’ turn to have theirs.
DJ Naylor and Reny Alfonso join Sound Bites podcast host Holly Whitfield to talk about Celtic Crossing reopening, Irish pubs and more.
Ahead of the roll call vote, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn spoke in favor of Dunavant, calling him an “experienced prosecutor.”
Marching bands, drumlines, street flippers and more took to Beale Street to celebrate what would be B.B. King’s 100th birthday.
Todd Dixon — a nurse, triathlete, Sunday-school teacher, husband and father — died at 54. Now an entire street in East Memphis is flying Chicago Cubs flags in his honor.
To the dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Memphis, its mission begins — but doesn’t end — with data.
Today’s jigsaw puzzle features a Patrick Lantrip photo of Rowan, a young orangutan born at the Memphis Zoo.