Commissioner Michael Whaley withdrew an ordinance that would have downsized the Ethics Commission in order to get the group to meet — something it hasn’t done in years.

The students graduated high school on Wednesday. They’ll receive their college diplomas on Thursday, thanks to a renewed partnership between Memphis-Shelby County Schools and Southwest Tennessee Community College. 

The Memphis Fire Department said it and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have been conducting “extensive off-site work, including detailed witness interviews and thorough video analysis.”

Six people were shot, one fatally, during a drive-by shooting at a Memphis Allies meeting in Hickory Hill on April 9.

This year’s funding request for building upgrades promises to be the final ask Memphis-Shelby County Schools leaders make before establishing a long-term plan for closing and consolidating schools.

The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office and the Memphis Police Department temporarily shut down a business that has been the site of multiple homicides this year.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office deputies have been fired following an incident last summer in which one of them allegedly had sex with an intoxicated woman after responding to a call.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris says his budget proposal for the new fiscal year will reduce the county property tax rate by 20% and raise the county wheel tax by another $5.

Ford’s trial date is coming soon, but TJ Shorts may not be coming to the Memphis Grizzlies.

Local minority contracting programs have been thrown into legal limbo after the Tennessee General Assembly effectively banned them statewide earlier this spring. 

The faith-based school expanded in 2013, but it’s looking to grow again.

A trial date is forthcoming in the federal criminal case against Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. 

MSCS sues over a hacking incident, Bartlett’s Union Depot may get bigger and the NBA Draft Lottery wasn’t great for the Grizzlies. 

Four Youth Villages staffers previously had been indicted for facilitation of aggravated child abuse and facilitation of reckless homicide in the death of 17-year-old Alegend Jones.

The software company stores personal information for students and their families, including addresses and Social Security numbers. 

After a stellar performance run in New York, The Central High School jazz band came home with a first-place win. 

Riverbeat beat last year’s numbers, Union Avenue’s blue dogs are mostly gone and we try to determine who invented barbecue nachos. 

The firm has done work on stadium renovations around the country, including the Gainbridge Fieldhouse, home of the Indianapolis Pacers.

Who created barbecue nachos? Well, it depends on who you ask, and be careful if you do ask because both sides are feisty about the answer.

The Central High jazz band did it. They defeated bands from across the country — and around the world — to win the Essentially Ellington contest in New York. And, yes, there were many tears.

Also happening this week: Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris brings his budget to County Commission, and a new Pilates studio opens.

“I am excited to grow creative collaborations around environmental humanities, especially care for water as our lifeblood,” Gretchen E. Henderson said.

The Central High jazz band continued to blaze through New York, advancing to the finals of the Essentially Ellington contest. Said Ollie Liddell, the band’s director: “We play with the spirt of the city, man.” 

The U.S. senator from New Jersey sat down for an exclusive interview with The Daily Memphian before delivering the commencement address to the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law graduating class.

“I think you could hear a pin drop in the courtroom when the judge read out the verdict: ‘not guilty, not guilty, not guilty,’ seven times, not guilty for each officer,” Memphis journalist Katherine Burgess said.