The needed deferred maintenance at Germantown High exceeds the value of the land and buildings.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chair has called TVA’s federally defined geographic service territory “a vestige of a bygone era in the region.”

Memphis-Shelby County Schools announced the district’s highest graduation percentage in nearly 10 years.

Dessie X, 64, of Millington and Fay Eschoe, 62, of Education Is The Key Children’s Center were indicted on felony counts of aggravated child neglect of a child under age 8 and criminally negligent homicide. 

Cold cases are getting a fresh look, standing is the new sitting at FedExForum and shoppers discuss their favorite finds at Gordon Food Service.

Speakers during the panel discussion represented each of the steps against gun violence outlined in the Safe Community Action Plan: focused deterrence approach, violence intervention, federal prosecution of gun crime, communications campaign, reduction in theft of guns from vehicles and Memphis Police Department Gun Crime Unit.

“It’s important to this community. … It’s one step in a number of steps that we will continue to make to support the process,” the governor said.

The autopsy was released by the West Tennessee Forensic Center.

Gordon Food Service opened to a big crowd, as shoppers got their first look at the new grocery store. Weren’t there? Take a tour of the store with Jennifer Biggs. 

The Cold Case Unit is expected to begin reviewing cold cases as early as the end of next week. The goal is for the unit to review up to 200 cold cases per year. 

In an indictment obtained by The Daily Memphian, Ezekiel Kelly is charged with 26 counts in addition to the first-degree murder charged in the death of Dewayne Tunstall.

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Memphis area roads affected include Walnut Grove Road, Macon Road, Raleigh Lagrange Road, North Houston Levee Road and Tenn. 194. 

Ezekiel Kelly is indicted on 26 new charges, MLGW names its interim CEO and there’s a new gym for future ninjas.

Amazon has partnered with Memphis-Shelby County Schools, adopting 20 schools to provide assistance in the largest such partnership ever for MSCS. 

The new breakfast restaurant is located on the east side of the suburb.

President Joe Biden nominated Ritz for the position July 29, and the U.S. Senate confirmed him unanimously Sept. 22.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland will eventually nominate a replacement that Memphis City Council confirms.

Mayor Jim Strickland touted the proposal, on its way to the Memphis City Council for the next budget season, as a way to retain and recruit public safety employees in the police and fire departments. For the police and fire unions, the proposal is the second part of a two-part push to restore what the City Council cut.

The additional counts include five counts of reckless endangerment, four counts of criminal attempt first-degree murder and commission of an act of terrorism.

Jonathan Dunn began his term on the Arlington Community Schools Board of Education as the body addressed third-grade retention based on TCAP scores.

The Memphis City Council wants cops to enforce curfews for kids, Memphis Grizzly Danny Green is here to stay and we look at why some homicide victims make headlines (and some do not).

The lawsuit was filed in August by one of the district’s two teacher unions, the Memphis-Shelby County Education Association.

While some murder victims are remembered publicly as real, complex people, others are seen as simply statistics. And for their loved ones, that can make the pain even worse. 

Althea Greene, who has served as vice chair for the last two years, will replace Michelle McKissack as board chair. Sheleah Harris will replace Greene as vice chair.

The set of a dozen appropriation resolutions topped a relatively uneventful council agenda Tuesday, Sept. 27.

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