The panel, which Daily Memphian CEO Eric Barnes will moderate, is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. at Church of the Holy Communion, at 4656 Walnut Grove Rd.

The first Shelby County Commission meeting of the year saw a first step toward a review board to hear misconduct allegations against the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.

Shelby County Criminal Court Division 3 Judge James Jones Jr. made the ruling in Joel Bowman’s case Monday, Jan. 8, after hearing from witnesses, including the victim of the burglary and Bowman’s former basketball coach.

More than 60% of money has been pledged; the finished library and science suite will open in summer 2025. 

Black Arts Collective forms at the Brooks, Cocina owner is restaurateur of the year, and we look at what’s ahead for the General Assembly.

Shelby County commissioners start the new year Monday, Jan. 8, with a short agenda and a deeper dive into the details and rules of getting to votes on resolutions and ordinances.

Other than Gov. Bill Lee’s proposal to expand private school vouchers, legislation intended to fight crime is likely to be the General Assembly’s biggest focus in its 2023 legislative session, which begins Tuesday.

Five former Memphis Police Department officers received state and federal charges for their alleged roles in Tyre Nichols’ death. They were also named as defendants in a civil wrongful death suit Nichols’ family filed. Here’s where their cases stand.

“Memphis, we need to get it together here because we going in the wrong direction,” said RowVaughn Wells, Tyre Nichols’ mother, at the one-year anniversary vigil in Hickory Hill. “This is a beautiful city, I used to brag about it. I don’t brag about it anymore.”

Elvis Presley would have been 89 on Monday, Jan. 8. And as always, Graceland is hosting a party. Also this week: The Memphis City Council holds its first meeting since new members were elected.

Hold onto your hat, it’s gonna be breezy Monday afternoon through Tuesday night. The National Weather Service also says there’s a chance of snow Friday evening.

The weather in Memphis on Jan. 7, 2023, was mild, with clear skies and temperatures in the 50s. But the events of that night created a storm that still hovers over the city.

Lawmakers will return to Nashville on Tuesday, Jan. 9, for the start of the 2024 legislative session. It’s the first time the full General Assembly is back since an August special session on public safety

Carpenter Art Garden and a team of local collaborators are constructing the park on the corner of Princeton Avenue and Tillman Street.

Mayor Lee Harris offered a preview of the budget proposal he will take to Shelby County commissioners in the spring and refuted speculation that the county is short of the funding needed for new high schools.

With the collective’s knowledge and funding, the Brooks will annually present one major exhibition by Black artists and buy at least one work by a Black artist for its permanent collection.

Johntavius Griggs has been in custody at the Shelby County Jail for more than eight years on a first-degree murder charge in limbo with no clear path forward.

No attorneys for the officers have yet filed requests to have separate federal trials, so it’s unclear if this motion would apply to all of them if granted.

Chelsey Duckett and her co-defendents have been indicted for alleged roles in the death of Gershun Freeman, who died in 2022 after an altercation with the officers at Shelby County Jail.

Laws passed in the wake of Tyre Nichols’ death instituted new data collection policies for traffic stops; stipulated that only marked police cars make traffic stops, and mandated residents not get pulled over for low-level offenses like faulty brake lights. 

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Young wants to fight crime pandemic-style, Philip Ashley Chocolates are getting more exclusive and Caleb Mills’ knee injury is “not good.”

The reappointment of Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis as police chief is among the slew of mayoral appointments that the Memphis City Council is slated to consider at its first meeting of 2024.

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“I think it’s time for us to figure out a solution, and it’s hard to believe that the solution is Wanda Halbert as county clerk,” said the Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris on WKNO’s “Behind the Headlines.”

“We hear our citizens loud and clear,” said Memphis Mayor Paul Young. “They want to see action. They want to see us strategizing and figuring out how we’re going to reduce the chaos, the hurt and the pain that we see in our community.”