Also happening this week: Judge Melissa Boyd is due in court, and there are plenty of ways to celebrate Easter.

A December 2023 deposition provides testimony from assistant chief jailer George Askew about the state of the Shelby County jail and how it’s run. 

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“We were able to remedy the problem,” said former Shelby County Sheriff and former county mayor Mark Luttrell. “Why did the remedy not stay in place?”

At a rare community meeting Thursday evening, tensions between about 30 community members and a couple company representatives boiled over. One message was clear: The community doesn’t trust Velsicol.

The plaza commemorates the nine historically black fraternities and sororities founded at American universities during the 1900s. 

Business leaders on “Behind The Headlines” say Memphians leaving the city because of crime is a real threat to the city’s economic prosperity, and they had to act on the problem. 

DeSoto County District Attorney Matthew Barton confirmed that Jessica Tabor is currently charged with one count of capital murder.

Speakers throughout the day included family members of Tyre Nichols and other nationally recognized police brutality victims, Memphis Mayor Paul Young and state Sen. Raumesh Akbari.

The shooting occurred at the business located at 577 N. Germantown Pkwy. at 2:17 p.m. Friday, March 22.

Hamilton County District Attorney General Coty Wamp and her investigators finished their two-day visit to look at problems within the Shelby County Clerk’s office. 

A man was shot at an apartment complex near FedExForum Friday morning, March 22, just hours before Memphis is set to host first-round games in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. 

“Refined Waffle House” comes to Harbor Town, Penny’s name comes off Downtown eatery and MEM is making it easier to find your car.

The Volunteer State is just one of three states where name, photographs and likeness are considered a property right rather than a right of publicity.

A suspicious package call shut down part of Union Avenue Thursday afternoon, March 21, as the Memphis Police Department investigated a possible bomb threat.

The local government audit unit of the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office issued its report Thursday, March 21, on incorrect revenue figures from the Shelby County Clerk’s office after a three-week investigation that included a week in Memphis.

At issue are concerns that the state’s franchise tax violates a U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause provision, which bans states from passing laws that burden interstate commerce.

Biden taps Kevin Ritz for a judgeship, the Terrace at the River Inn has a new menu and Coach Taylor Jenkins got knocked down (but he got up again).

Friends and family recalled Nigel Lewis as a talented attorney and a tireless advocate for his clients. He also is remembered for his Catholic faith, his “glowing” personality and his love of the jam band Phish.

Located in the heart of Soulsville, the new clinic will be on the next block from the Stax Museum and the Soulsville Foundation. 

A handler with a Belgian Malinois stood just off stage, the dog plainly visible to the crowd in the theater. The evening ended with protesters chasing Rittenhouse’s volunteers off campus. 

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“This 24-hour ballistics lab can also provide us with expanded ability to retrieve serial numbers that have been obliterated from guns, which is also something that is important,” Mulroy said.

President Joe Biden has nominated Kevin Ritz to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the White House announced Wednesday, March 20.

Nearly a year and a half after Memphis Light, Gas and Water’s smart meters started breaking — and just as the utility thought it was almost done repairing them — another issue has arisen. 

According to a U of M spokesperson, the university reissued tickets through its portal, “due to safety concerns.”

State lawmakers advanced legislation Tuesday that would put fewer fourth graders at risk of being held back this year under Tennessee’s 2021 reading law.