As of 5 p.m. Aug. 4 there were 423 COVID-positive patients in area hospital beds.

Testing will begin Sept. 6 for Health Department staff.

The transaction is said to position Orion as “a fierce competitor” in the southeastern region.

Silverfield said the team’s conditioning still has a long way to go before reaching the season opener against Nicholls on Sept. 4, but he mentioned his players are in significantly better shape now than they were this time last year.

Kyle Murphy scores for the eighth time in eight games.

The vote on the resolution was unanimous. Bartlett officials hope this will keep the salaries and benefits more in line with nearby municipal governments.

Protests from suburban parents continued Tuesday, although gatherings were smaller than those that occurred Monday.

“Alvin Motley had a right to exist, pump gas and play his music because this is America, and nobody has the right to kill a young Black man for playing music,” says civil rights attorney.

The Shelby County Commission voted Monday, Aug. 9, to override the veto of a new ethics advisory panel the commission would appoint.

Collierville Schools board members will receive a pay raise, the first for board members since the district’s inception.

Lenny’s started in Bartlett in 1998 and now is expanding its brand as it opens inside the Walmart store on Winchester this week.

Tennessee’s two Republican U.S. Senators telegraphed their “no” votes well ahead of Tuesday’s vote, which was delayed over the weekend by Hagerty.

Hospital has nearly half the serious cases in the state.

Former Memphis Tiger and Grizzlies player Antonio Burks is charged with operating an illegal poker and gambling house.

The Tigers’ nonconference home schedule is headlined by a matchup with Alabama in December.

Sherra Wright, the ex-wife of slain basketball star Lorenzen Wright, has withdrawn her request to overturn her guilty plea in the death.

At 50 years old, the 34-story office tower has a new owner that plans “substantial” improvements to the building.

No decision yet at Baptist, the area’s largest system; 58% of its 19,000 employees are vaccinated.

COVID-19 precautions are preventing Silverfield from executing his usual team bonding outings, but that doesn’t mean he’s given up on unique ways to create team chemistry.

The veto override by the commission is the latest chapter in an ongoing dispute between County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. and Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris.

The delays to the Aug. 23 commission meeting followed a rancorous debate among commissioners and between commissioners and anti-maskers who taunted one commissioner online before Monday’s session.

A number of residents expressed their disdain of Germantown’s vaccine policy it issued and removed last week. 

Bane takes charge in the first Las Vegas Summer League game with 32 points.

Attorneys for pretrial detainees at the Shelby County Jail claim the county has not satisfied the requirements of a consent decree.