The regular audit is separate from the state-ordered forensic audit of the Memphis school system. The forensic audit is underway. 

Faculty sets a tone: Bodies will be treated with dignity. Usually, however, students don’t need the reminder. At the end of the semester, many even linger to say goodbye to their bodies.

Maybe, just maybe, a class at Christian Brothers University can focus attention back on the murders of Beau and Shea Grauer, two brothers killed seven months apart in two separate Midtown shootings that appear unconnected.

Some worried the Memphis Safe Task Force’s launch would drive crime up in the suburbs.

Also in the political roundup, Rose says he has a plan for state control after the Task Force; Buckner says the Task Force has a secret; and Smiley says the county mayor has a role to play at the jail.

Also happening this week: Another election deadline is coming, and a private karaoke studio opens.

Commissioners are also voting on an effort to restructure its diversity efforts in keeping with the Trump administration’s ban on such programs.

Since its inception in 2003, the Mid-South Raptor Center, which is run entirely by volunteers, has rehabilitated and released more than 2,000 wounded wild birds of prey.

The redevelopment project includes moving the hotel entrance to Main Street to face the convention center, and adding meeting space and an outdoor event lawn. 

Insurance companies deny claims, use AI, refuse to pay hospitals and limit cancer care, some TN lawmakers say. Now, they’re rising up against the industry.

A new bill would allow some Tennessee private school teachers to get an emergency teaching waiver to teach at a public school without a bachelor’s degree.

Volunteers have taken on the task of cleaning up the 10-acre graveyard. Among the estimated 3,400 graves at Mt. Carmel Cemetery is that of Memphis hero Tom Lee. 

“This bill is about dignity, safety and common sense. Eviction is a legal process — not entertainment content.”

Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy talked on “Behind The Headlines” about the Task Force and criticism Memphis Mayor Paul Young has taken.

State party leaders say there will be no hearing at a Saturday meeting on some concerns expressed by local Democrats about whether the former MSCS superintendent is a “bona-fide” Democrat.

The second effort to rebuild Clayborn Temple in as many years will be just as ambitious as the first, the leader of the nonprofit leading the project said Friday, Feb. 20.

A longtime Memphis judge will retire this summer, according to an official notice filed Thursday with Gov. Bill Lee.

MLGW urges people to avoid Fourth Street and Pontotoc Avenue.

St. Jude’s CEO is stepping down, an anti-LGBTQ marriage bill moves ahead and the Riverbeat lineup is out. 

There are plant sales, Bad Bunny-inspired events, Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy doing a monologue and a week’s worth of Afro-Latino stories, music and dancing. 

The Tennessee House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday, Feb. 19, that lets private businesses refuse to recognize same-sex couples.

Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill that is meant to help patients who may not live near a pharmacy with their birth control.

Bad Timing got good news, cocktails meet canvases in the Edge and you can play Ja Morant in a new video game.

When it comes to the Memphis Grizzlies, superstar Ja Morant isn’t the only thing up in the air. 

May ballot races thick and thin develop ahead of Thursday’s noon deadline, with a warning a final list could take a while.