The request is under consideration, but Hemphill has not yet been decertified. 

“Basically, we’ll be able to educate the kids how Tennessee sees fit,” House Speaker Cameron Sexton said, pointing that rejecting the money would mean that Tennessee would no longer have “federal government interference.”

Methodist and BlueCross agree on Medicaid, a civil rights pioneer has died and East High students are ready for their close-up. 

After Memphis Shelby Crime Commission’s juvenile crime forum, 250 attendees showed strong support for more community investment in programs for youths, more intensive supervision for certain offenders and salary increases for detention center employees, according to a survey.

King began her grassroots social justice and civil rights activism at the age of 20 and served as a leader during the Civil Rights Movement and the Poor People’s Campaign in the 1960s. 

Mosques are uniting to raise money in citywide appeal on Friday.

East High School audio-visual students have a new, fully functional studio space where they can get hands-on instruction in broadcasting.

More cops are in trouble over Tyre Nichols, St. Jude plans taller towers and Strickland says his sports venue plan is at “halftime.”

His ex-boyfriend said Harris shouted at him and pushed and grabbed him, then he “ransacked” his apartment.

Our newest interns are from Rhodes College and the University of Memphis.

The district’s board of education voted unanimously at its business meeting Tuesday night to hire Hazard, Young, Attea, and Associates to conduct the search.

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U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus said during an interview on Politics Nation on MSNBC on Jan. 29 that he extended the invitation to the family.

The city’s chief operating officer says the festival wants a limited-liabilty provision for damages to the park that the city has never granted for past festivals in Tom Lee Park. Everything else has been agreed to.

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Demetrius Haley is one of six officers who have been fired from the police department and one of five who have been charged with second degree murder and other charges related to the death of Nichols. 

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Memphis is hoping to expand ways state money can be used. 

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday, Feb. 7, by Monterrious Harris, 22, with the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. 

Memphis City Council members came with questions about police culture and some criticism of the administration during an extended Tuesday, Feb. 7, discussion about the death of Tyre Nichols. That was followed by a series of first council votes on a package of 8 police reform measures.

MSCS board members sound off on Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s opinion suggesting Keith Williams may have a conflict of interest serving both on the district board and as head of one of its two teacher unions. 

Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis told Memphis City Council members that the total number of officers now facing internal police charges is 13.

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By looking at the cumulative lifetime cancer risk from individual pollutants scientists can glean how much one chemical is contributing to overall risk. 

Name recognition could give Herenton an edge, observers say.

County Commission passes police reform, Dillon Brooks’ days may be numbered and there’s a goat (or ram?) near I-40.

Memphis drivers have been encountering a different type of horn while driving on the interstate recently.

The two resolutions approved unanimously drew criticism from activists because they are not binding on law enforcement. Commissioners are exploring ways to draft them as ordinances that could be more binding on the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.

“The state of our beloved state is prosperous, hopeful, and unrivaled,” Lee said. Doctors stood outside the state House chamber protesting a bill that bans gender-affirming care for transgender youth.