With children in the Germantown Municipal School District, a leadership role in two of the suburb’s churches and a background of education in her family, the Rev. Rebecca Luter believes she brings the necessary traits to her new role on the suburb’s school board.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris has appointed former Memphis City Council member Harold Collins to serve as administrator and executive director of the Shelby County Office of Re-Entry, according to a news release Tuesday.

The last of the brick two-story apartment buildings that were the Foote Homes public housing development are down to a few slabs of concrete overgrown by grass and bushes. And new wooden frames are starting to rise near the corner of Lauderdale Street and Vance Avenue.

The battle to fill Tennessee’s open U.S. Senate seat is turning into a free-for-all before the Nov. 6 election.

Second Street and B.B. King Boulevard between Union Avenue and A.W. Willis Boulevard would each have a lane just for buses and other mass transit under a proposal to be discussed by a Memphis City Council committee Tuesday, Sept. 25.

Facebook has deactivated six fake accounts connected to the Memphis Police Department, according to the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, and sent a letter to police brass last week warning them that the fake accounts violate Facebook's terms of service.

The first weekend the Downtown Memphis Commission and Memphis Police Department considered reinstituting a cover charge on Beale Street did not occur.

LeMoyne-Owen College administrator and professor Terrell Strayhorn is a rising star of academia who got pulled down to Earth by questions about a prolific paid speaking schedule at his last career stop, Ohio State University.

The Shelby County Commission will vote on several of Mayor Lee Harris’ initial proposals for his administration at its meeting Monday.

Three of the four voting systems certified by the state of Tennessee for use in elections would enable voters to get a printed copy of their choices and then complete the voting process by running that printed copy through a scanner.

Dennis Wolf, Lakeland’s future fire chief, expects the suburb’s new fire department will begin answering calls in July, 2019, becoming the last government entity in Shelby County to operate its own fire service. Wolf, former fire chief in Germantown, provided insight on the new department for officials and residents at a Lakeland Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, Sept.18.

The city that has been the epicenter of Tennessee’s school improvement work since 2012 got encouraging news on Friday as fewer Memphis schools landed on the state’s newest list of troubled schools.

In May, Explore Bike Share launched its 600-bike, 60-station system. Now, the bike share system is expanding into Mud Island and Harbor Town via three stations along Greenbelt Park.

Less than two weeks before an Oct. 2 gubernatorial debate set for Memphis, Republican candidate Bill Lee missed an MTSU Gubernatorial Luncheon & Forum in Murfreesboro on Thursday, Sept. 20.

Chris McLean, currently the chief administrative officer of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, will serve as chief financial officer of Shelby County government beginning Jan. 15, 2019, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris announced on Friday.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland addressed the city Friday morning, saying there have been 40 incidents in which the Memphis Police Department investigated and disciplined officers for violating policies surrounding the use of body and vehicle cameras, vowing to get “to the bottom of this” shooting of 25-year-old Martavious Banks.

With questions surrounding the shooting of Martavious Banks by a Memphis Police officer, state Rep. G.A. Hardaway is set to renew legislation requiring the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to take control of officer-involved shooting probes.

Two months into his job as superintendent of Millington Municipal Schools, James “Bo” Griffin goes into all four schools in the system at least once a week.

Debra Clark thought there must be a catch when her manager announced FedEx was offering Memphis hub workers tuition-free online education at University of Memphis.

Few items to be voted on at City Hall kindle controversy like the prospect of a new billboard. The controversy usually pits council members who see billboards as blight and oppose any proliferation of them against members who see them as a money-maker for property owners who lease their land for billboard use.

At the end of Wednesday’s committee meeting, Turner sponsored a resolution that would reverse Luttrell’s second request to end DOJ oversight of Juvenile Court. Commissioner Brandon Morrison asked to defer the resolution to have more time to study the letter, which Turner granted. The commission will revisit the resolution at its next committee meeting Oct. 3.

The Memphis Police Department said an officer who critically wounded a 25-year-old man in a shooting in South Memphis Monday night did not record the encounter because he and two other officers failed to turn on their body and in-car cameras during the incident.

Danielle Schonbaum, Democratic candidate for House District 83, is looking to upset the status quo in the General Assembly.

Knoxville businessman Randy Boyd won’t be Tennessee’s next governor, but he is likely to be named the next president of the University of Tennessee – at least on an interim basis.

University of Tennessee President Joe DiPietro is set to leave active service in mid-November, three months before he will officially retire as head of the state system.