Thirteen years after historic flooding in southwest Memphis, officials broke ground on the South Cypress Creek restoration project.

A local man will serve two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for the 2019 murders of his infant child and the child’s mother. 

Juvenile Court moves to temporary homes, Happy Mexican gets a refresh and a Memphis family wins the Feud.

Based on an idea borne from the pandemic years, Arlington Middle School has opened an outdoor classroom, providing a different learning environment for students.

Peer-guided healing circles inside the Shelby County Jail helps participating detainees work through trauma, become positive role models and learn to trust in the possibility of healing.

Also happening this week: The Memphis City Council and Shelby County Board of Commissioners dive into budgets, and school is out in Lakeland, Bartlett, Arlington and Millington. 

Dinstuhl’s co-owner Rebecca Dinstuhl loves the candy business and shepherding a family business, but she also loves football. She was recently named president of the 2024 AutoZone Liberty Bowl.

“We want to uplift all arts and culture that’s taking place in Shelby County,” Shelby County Arts and Culture Liaison Nykesha Cole said of the Art for All event at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park. 

Memphis City Council members weigh a 75-cent tax hike as Shelby County commissioners have to make some decisions about change to the funding for a Regional One Health rebuild.

If the UT board of trustees also approves the college’s budget next month, all of UTHSC’s students would see a 2.9% tuition increase in the fall. 

Locations in existing Shelby County government office buildings include the Walter L. Bailey Jr. Criminal Justice Center, Shelby County Courthouse and the Shelby County Youth Justice & Education Center.

Memphis Police Department said the shooting occurred among several vendors selling Mother’s Day gifts like purses, gift baskets and pillows in the parking lot on Shelby Drive near Elvis Presley Boulevard.

A Memphis Police Department officer shot and killed a suspect while responding to a domestic violence call on Dumbarton Road early Friday morning, May 10.

Shelby County nixes bail calculator, Kevin Ritz judgeship nomination moves ahead and we’ve got a breakfast rec for “blue-collar ballers.”

A new law bars judicial commissioners from using an ability-to-pay calculator when setting initial bail, but it does not prevent the consideration of defendants’ financial conditions. Critics say the law is confusing and ultimately unconstitutional.

The nomination takes place against a backdrop of a dispute between Republicans and Democrats in the chamber over a procedural custom for notifying senators of the opposing party that was suspended during the Trump administration.

Dr. Scott Morris, a physician and Methodist minister, will step down as CEO of Church Health, the clinic he founded in 1987 that is today the largest faith-based, privately funded health clinic in the United States. 

The storms continue an outbreak of torrential rain and tornadoes that has cut across the country this week, from the Plains to the Midwest and now the southeastern U.S.

The nation’s largest public utility is moving ahead with a plan for a new natural gas plant in Tennessee despite warnings that its environmental review of the project doesn’t comply with federal law.

A FedEx plane makes an emergency landing, a former cop is indicted for killing a man and poets celebrate Tom Lee Day. 

“We cannot just wait, though, until students reach our doors as adults. We have to reach them earlier and younger; we cannot, however, do it alone.”

The Downtown Memphis Commission uses security checkpoints on Beale Street on the weekends. But that private security does not screen patrons all night, every night. Security checkpoints come down at some point, while some bars are still open.

On Jan. 5, 2021, while Patric Ferguson while was on duty, he allegedly kidnapped and fatally shot Robert Howard in the head.

A law passed last year requires polling places to post warning signs stating that it’s a crime for someone to vote in a political party’s primary if they are not a bona fide member of that party.

After his heroic efforts to save 32 people from a capsized excursion boat on the Mississippi River, Tom Lee worked as a city sanitation worker and lived in the Klondike neighborhood.