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Collierville
Collierville High School identifies 318 close contacts following 8 cases of COVID-19
There are 318 members of the Collierville High School community who are quarantined following eight confirmed cases of COVID-19.
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Metro
Shelby County Health Department reports 194 cases from 1,513 tests
Shelby County Health Department reported 194 new positive cases on Sunday from 1,513 reported tests. Tennessee Department of Health reports 835 new cases out of 11,958 tests.
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Premium Memphis Grizzlies
Sports Notebook: ‘The Process’ still has runway in Memphis
Also, the Big Ten considers winter football in domes, and Memphis football's opener gets a prime-time slot on ESPN, which will benefit recruiting.
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Performing Arts
Tennessee Shakespeare Co. offers literary salon online
“Classical Creativity in Isolation” will open the professional theater company’s 13th season. “I don’t care for live theaters being classified as ‘non-essential’ this year,” says TSC founder Dan McCleary.
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Premium Business
Bed bugs itching for post-COVID comeback
Pest control experts have seen a temporary reduction in bed bug infestations because of COVID-19's impact on personal mobility, but they expect the bugs to make a comeback.
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Germantown
Opinion: A sad sendoff for Alderman Dean Massey
The deadline for the Germantown municipal elections has passed, ending the Dean Massey drama of whether he will seek another term on the suburb's Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
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Podcast Elections
A political valley on the road to Nov. 3
The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast recaps some events from the past week and some of the recently certified election results are cause to go looking through some numbers from the historic 1991 city elections.
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North Memphis
Memphis mask fundraising campaign helps on multiple fronts
“Mask for Memphis” raised about $25,000 during the past four months and distributed 2,600 masks at multiple mask giveaway events in Raleigh, Frayser and other North Memphis neighborhoods. Masks provided through the fundraiser are washable and reusable.
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High School Sports
Miller brothers ready for NBA champion dad Mike to coach them for real
Mavrick's learning as older brother Mason gets calls from Division I schools.
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Transportation & Logistics
Delta’s Memphis-Indy nonstop coming back
Delta Air Lines will offer nonstop service between Memphis and Indianapolis starting Oct. 1.
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901 FC
901 FC sets soccer aside to march for ‘unity, togetherness’ and compassion
Team forgoes league game in response to Jacob Blake shooting, choosing to visit National Civil Rights Museum.
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High School Sports
Wooddale three-star Johnathan Lawson intends to reclassify if no high school basketball
Coveted guard with Memphis on his top-6 list wants to enroll in college early if the pandemic wipes out the high school season.
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Coronavirus
Shelby County’s COVID-19 cases and positivity rate decline
From August 15 to 29, the Shelby County Health Department reported an average of 176 new coronavirus cases and 1,709 test results a day with a 10.3% positivity rate.
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Coronavirus
Shelby County reports 221 new COVID-19 cases, one death
Shelby County reported 2,020 more test results Saturday, returning a daily positivity rate of 10.9%. Tests reported are not solely from the preceding 24-hour period, but often from multiple days.
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Education
Education commissioner in danger of facing no-confidence vote
Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn could face a no-confidence vote from lawmakers during September meetings if she doesn't say what they want to hear.
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Arts & Culture
Art & Design Week aims to take Memphis’ creativity to the nation
Scheduled for Oct. 3-10, Memphis Art & Design Week will include interviews, panels, talks, virtual studio tours and online shopping.
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Public Safety
Weirich says no charges in police shooting of man with BB gun
The fatal shooting of Andre Horton by a Memphis police officer in 2018 has been ruled justified by Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich.
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Elections
Election chief: Using FedExForum for voting ‘not practical’
Using FedExForum as a gigantic polling location for the November election would be like “shooting flies with cannon balls,” Shelby County Elections Administrator Linda Phillips said Friday, Aug. 28.
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Update Collierville
Collierville High School goes remote for two weeks, 8 confirmed COVID-19 cases
Students will learn remotely for two weeks. Three more coronavirus cases have been reported, bringing the total to eight. The entire varsity football team is in quarantine.
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901 FC
Memphis 901 FC players won’t play Saturday in North Carolina as social protest
Memphis 901 FC is planning a Saturday march to the National Civil Rights Museum, which they will tour, instead of playing a scheduled game.
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Real Estate
U of M, ‘private entity’ plan dorm-like development stretching from Central to Poplar
The Office of Planning & Development says the zoning on Deloach prohibits the proposed development totaling 135 units and 529 bedrooms. But the U of M contends it is exempt from zoning regulations.
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State Government
Governor extends state of emergency through September
Bill Lee signed executive orders Friday extending Tennessee’s state of emergency until Sept. 30 and allowing mayors to put mask mandates in place.
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City of Memphis
Strickland to name police reform commission in second phase of ‘reimagining’ police
Word of the commission comes the same week that a federal task force shot and wounded a teenager while serving a warrant in a case of mistaken identity.
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Health Care
Quick, $5 antigen tests expected in Shelby County next month
The U.S. government purchased 150 million rapid-result antigen tests; up to a million are set aside for Tennessee.
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