Taylor Jenkins said the Lakers competed harder for the full 48 minutes in a “terrible effort” by the Grizzlies that snapped an 11-game winning streak. 

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Committee members asked that additional input surveys be created once the district’s board of education picks a search firm that will help MSCS find superintendent candidates.

Four members of Germantown’s Harvest Church were killed in a plane crash in Yoakum, Texas, leaving behind church leaders, family members and community officials. 

A 15-year-old accused in the July killing of Rev. Autura Eason-Williams will be transferred to adult court while a second 16-year-old suspect will stay in juvenile court.

The Germantown Republican pleaded guilty on Nov. 22 to two counts related to his unsuccessful run for Congress in 2016; about two weeks later, the Tennessee Supreme Court suspended his license to practice law.

“The challenge we have is that the city government does not control the courts,” Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said. “We don’t control the state laws. We don’t control, we can’t control, gun regulations and gun access.”

The ambulances will be funded by nearly $1 million U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Memphis) secured through the congressional appropriations process. 

The project was originally approved for 168 age-restricted units, and developers now want to increase that to more than 400.

“We have a great market, but we’re in a situation where we need to slow it down a little bit because we can get overdone in this area.”