Brent Taylor wants help from New York to fight Memphis crime, Whitehaven High’s principal blames MSCS for a botched graduation and Hardaway makes another staffing change.

For more than a week, Principal Vincent Hunter has heard complaints about Whitehaven’s graduation ceremony being moved inside at the last minute, but he said the decision came from the top of the district.

Paul Young said the city’s strategy for crime suppression includes “criminal activity disruption” along with focusing police and city blight efforts in high-crime areas.

The Tennessee-based company will exclusively produce a variety of merchandise categories, such as tents, chairs, soft-sided coolers and more, under contracts ranging from five to 10 years.

Arlington wastes little time in naming a new principal for the district’s high school, replacing Shannon Abraham.

Government prosecutors have chalked up the allegations as a character attack on Nichols and argued Tuesday they shouldn’t be presented before a jury. 

State Sen. Brent Taylor is asking Gov. Bill Lee to hire a former NYPD commissioner to help combat Memphis’ crime problem.

Feagins has officially been superintendent for only about two months, but has been gearing up for this role for a long time.

Wanda Halbert heads to court this week, Shelby County has two fewer judges and the late Bill Walton had Memphis ties. 

Recently obtained records show that MPD’s homicide investigator count is shrinking in a city that saw almost 400 homicides last year and where more than 100 have occurred to date in 2024.

Cordova-native Renee Sekander found her voice while advocating on her college campus. “Even though my voice was a bit shaky at the time, I was really confident in what I was speaking up about.”

Four or fives times a week, Glenn Morris takes out one of his Litterbuggies to pick up trash in Memphis neighborhoods. And Batman has nothing on this guy’s utility belt.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Gloria Johnson campaigns in Memphis over the long holiday weekend and hopes Democrats throw national support behind her effort to upset incumbent Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn.

Also happening this week: Michalyn Easter-Thomas’ ethics hearing, Riverview Community Center’s opening and Mayor Young’s town hall in Raleigh.

National Weather Service Memphis stated in its forecast that Shelby County can expect heavy evening rainfall with 10 to 15 miles per hour winds. 

If a Navy bassoonist stationed in Hawaii busts up his bassoon or a tuba player stationed in Seattle dents her tuba, where do you imagine those instruments end up?

In addition to remembering dead service members buried at Memphis National Cemetery, this year’s Memorial Day Flag Placement hosted by the Scouts commemorated the late cubmaster for Pack 258, Nathan Cortez.

Church Health founder Dr. Scott Morris talks on “Behind The Headlines” about the 37-year-old institution he founded and how complex it has become in an era of big medicine and big health-care institutions.

John Gillespie questioned MPD’s policies in a Thursday news release. He and Brent Taylor sponsored the law that bans police departments from not pulling someone over when they have reasonable suspicion the person violated the law.

In a move that critics say will cause backlogs, the county will lose Division 9 of Criminal Court effective July 1 and Division 7 of Circuit Court effective Sept. 1.

Luxury hotel is planned near FedExForum, Uptown is getting a Chick-fil-A and Brent Taylor urges schools to stay quiet about guns. 

Republican state Senator Brent Taylor told a group of 50 at the Whitehaven Republican Club that school leaders should “keep quiet” about not using a state law that allows for teachers to carry guns at schools.

“My office has fought fraud against homeowners for decades, and there is no home in Tennessee more beloved than Graceland,” Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said in a news release.