“We talk about the nursing shortage all the time, but actually there’s a shortage in many disciplines within the health care system.”

The Shelby County Public Defender’s Office is struggling to handle first-degree murder cases, according to an email sent out to Shelby County General Sessions Criminal Court judges in July and a recent filing in a first-degree murder case.

Twenty-three years ago when she was 11, Nuha Abuduhair almost moved from Memphis to Gaza. Today, she runs her own business here. But not a moment passes without her thinking of loved ones in Gaza.

The children’s book highlights a variety of Shelby County landmarks from more than 300 submissions from community volunteers. 

“That felt real good,” said Marcus Smart after the Grizzlies grabbed their second win of the season.

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Box score: Grizzlies 105, Clippers 101

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Also happening this week: A verdict is expected on whether Ja Morant can use the state’s self-defense immunity statute in a lawsuit over a fight at a pickup basketball game.

Starting December 2023, MSCS will jump-start its $3 million program, “Discovering Memphis,” designed to allow students to travel outside school grounds to explore different places across the city.

“When my friend hoists me out of the dumps by pointing out my many blessings, what she’s really doing is pointing me to the Giver of all good gifts. She’s reminding me that I came into this world empty-handed and I will leave the same way.”

DeSoto County Dining Week will be open to restaurants in Southaven, Olive Branch, Hernando, Horn Lake, Walls and Nesbit. 

Economists say the days of massive budget surpluses are over, but the state remains in a solid financial position. And the economy is not in a recession.

The decade-long struggle over a patch of grass in Overton Park has reflected a changing city and served as a kind of proxy battle for larger civic questions. 

He’s poured 12 years into the Wolf River Greenway that will connect 1,000 acres of woods and wetlands along the meandering ribbon of a river that flows by neighborhoods, rich and poor, in Shelby County. 

Poag Development Group is buying Oak Court Mall for an undisclosed price in a deal that is expected close by mid-December.

The Downtown Memphis Tourism Development Zone is likely to face another shortfall in next year’s debt payment, though it should be the smallest seen in the past three years.

Record crowd watches as early goals from Mya Jones and Momo Nakao send Tigers into a second-round game against Notre Dame at 3 p.m. Friday. ESPN+ will broadcast the game.

Whatever you’ve thought about this team, or the schedule, or the coaching, all the Tigers (8-2) have done is figure out how to win almost every week.

Hypothetical talks at the start of the year surrounding what could be for the program have inched closer and closer to reality each week.

Shortly after the chief jailer filed to be dismissed from the $100 million lawsuit filed by the widow of Gershun Freeman who died last year at 201 Poplar, Shelby County also moved to be dismissed as a defendant.

Memphis (8-2, 5-1 AAC) stays alive in the race toward a conference championship game appearance after surviving a scare against the 49ers.

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Box score: Memphis 44, Charlotte 38 (OT)

More than 40 people attended and paid their respects to both fallen and living war veterans at the Doughboy Statue in Overton Park’s Veterans Plaza during the Daughters of the American Revolution Veterans Day Ceremony.

Less than two weeks after returning from yet another knee injury, Jahvon Quinerly orchestrated a second-half comeback in the visiting Tigers’ win Friday at Missouri.

The Cordell Walker Veteran Center is named for the longtime executive director of Alpha Omega Veterans Services. The facility at 3114 Jackson Ave. includes housing for 20 homeless veterans.

The leaders of Memphis Parks, Shelby Farms Park Conservancy and Memphis River Parks Partnership talk on “Behind The Headlines” about the combination of public spaces and parks in the city.

Since June, the Army Corps of Engineers has spent $38 million maintaining the Mississippi River channel, mostly through dredging the equivalent of 5,000 Olympic-sized pools of sediment. 

If you follow The Daily Memphian’s food or business sections, you’ve likely seen a new byline coming through on restaurant-related business stories: Sophia Surrett.