After months of presiding over efforts to overturn Andrew Hayes’ murder conviction, Judge Lee Coffee has agreed to step aside following a defense motion challenging his impartiality.

Collierville is getting a new place to congregate, one Little Petals location has a buffet and you can be on “Love Island USA” 

This weekend brings the return of the Indie Memphis Film Festival and the start of the holiday market season. 

John Covington writes: “A little political hardball, practiced by both sides historically in Tennessee and nationwide, had morphed into a diabolical moral indictment of state and national Republicans.”

“For embarrassed local Democrats, the story of this election will be a giant opportunity lost. The numbers bear witness to the apathy.”

A Walls police officer was involved in a crash that killed three people on U.S. 61 in the small Mississippi town.

Mississippi’s tight U.S. Senate race between Democrat Scott Colom and incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith still remains undecided with Colom — as of Thursday morning —leading by less than a percentage point. 

Pearson has things to say about gerrymandering, and we dig into the data on what happened with his loss. Plus, the Grizz lose again. 

The golden era of local breweries, at least in Memphis, may be over. 

Despite Republicans’ redistricting efforts, it appears Tennessee will retain a Democrat in its U.S. House of Representatives delegation — just not one from Memphis. But despite losses, the city’s Democrats may have paths forward in future elections.

“I accept the results of this election for Congress. But I will not concede to rigged maps, attacks on democracy in Tennessee or to billionaire control of our political system.”

Tennessee Gov.-elect Marsha Blackburn already has some priorities for her administration, including a state DOGE review of spending, and the state House speaker wants to cap local property tax rates.

Jerri Green lost the race for Tennessee governor by 2.5 percentage points, a narrow margin in a state dominated by Republicans for two decades.

In his second race of the election year, the aide to former Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris goes to Nashville in January when the legislative sessions begins.

The jury is still out on Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race, but DeSoto County voters did decide a number of local races.

The mayor-elect chose locally based professionals to address seven areas of city government. Their first meeting is Friday and their work will conclude before Jan. 1.

Library workers can unionize, Germantown has a new mayor and a decrepit shopping center is coming down. 

Reporter Jody Callahan joins us to talk about a fatal shooting in Millington and how the suspect was apprehended in a small European country about the size of New Jersey. 

Brent Taylor defeated Democrat David Weatherspoon to hold onto his state Senate seat.

Tennessee voters gave the green light to three amendments to the state’s constitution with Tuesday’s election results.

The Lakeland Board of Commissioners will also have two new faces as Jeremy Burnett and Lindsey Reap won their first terms.

Hatcher largely eschewed campaigning in Shelby County.

The Germantown incumbent defeated Democratic challenger and former Shelby County Criminal Court clerk Heidi Kuhn for Tennessee’s 8th Congressional District seat, which covers much of Memphis and its northeastern suburbs. 

Republican Brent Taylor flipped Tennessee’s new 9th Congressional District Tuesday, Nov. 3, delivering the party the win it sought through a swift redistricting effort that diluted the state’s lone Democratic stronghold by carving majority-Black Memphis into thirds.

It was a big night for incumbents in Bartlett as several will return to office following victories in the city elections Tuesday, Nov. 3.