Also happening this week: The Wolf River Bottoms Task Force meets for the first time, and Tigers football is back.

Five people were shot, one fatally, in a shooting in the Medical District April 19. 

The jail is more packed than it has been in at least five years, and amid the crowding, more inmates are being placed on suicide watch, according to Shelby County Sheriff’s Office data.

Hundreds protested for or against numerous causes at Poplar Avenue and Highland Street on Saturday afternoon, carrying signs denouncing xAI, the Trump administration and one that said simply, “Where do I start?”

Investigators behind a new criminal justice report talked about a way to change how cases move through the courts.

PJ Haggerty’s entry into the NCAA transfer portal isn’t just about this new era of college athletics, which like most things in our society has gone through seismic changes. It’s about what Haggerty’s potential decision to leave suggests about Memphis basketball’s place in it.

MSCS may tear down old buildings, the state budget slashes Memphis programs and Ja Morant is a maybe tonight. 

Former Superintendent Marie Feagins debuted the real estate plan in December weeks before school board chair Joyce Dorse Coleman first called for her ouster. Progress appears to have continued through the leadership tumult.

As international students at CBU and the U of M, like others across the country, have their visas revoked, the issue is setting up new quandaries for college administrators. 

Rep. G.A. Hardaway, along with other Memphis lawmakers, expressed concern over the reductions and outright elimination of many Memphis organizations and programs.

County Commissioner Britney Thornton said Wednesday the allegations against Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. shouldn’t be considered in deciding what, if any, changes should be made to the body’s grant program.

A resolution that urges the Tennessee Supreme Court to create a panel to investigate three state district attorneys general passed the state Senate Wednesday, April 16.

Baron Von Opperbean gets big bucks, a school takeover compromise is coming and a Midtown bar owner brings “fun times” to Millington.

As college enrollments have dwindled in the United States, many colleges have stepped up international recruiting to close the gap. 

Rep. Mark White, R-Memphis, and Sen. Brent Taylor, R- Eads, don’t yet agree on the role of a new appointed board. Here’s what they’ve offered in new proposals aimed at a compromise.

A Millington Central Middle High School basketball coach is on unpaid leave as part of an investigaiton.

Potts has 13 platinum singles and one platinum album.

Darren Goods is a veteran former Memphis police officer who, before his retirement, was part of the police brass, including leading several specialized units that focused on violent crime.

A property-tax hike may be the “only option” for a new jail, a Wolfchase hotel could be yours and something new is brewing in Germantown. 

“Special education preschool students throughout Tennessee do not get much funding. It’s almost a totally unfunded mandate,” Lakeland School System board member and legislative liaison Michelle Childs said.

Options for funding the project, widely agreed upon by state legislators as necessary despite disputes about priorities and timing, are becoming increasingly limited.

A giant figure at now-closed Bishop Byrne, he coached the Red Knights to three football state championships.

Charges were dropped for a codefendant in a Rhodes student’s killing, the AG’s office goes after a Memphis charity and all the Grizzlies have to do is win. 

Shelby County Health Department’s new pilot program will allow all county residents aged 14 and up to order a free, at-home HIV testing kit once every six months. 

The Shelby County Commission approved unanimously an expansion of universal prekindergarten services.