Meet two Grizzlies fans who are just happy to be here. Plus, Comeback Coffee is coming back – sort of.

After the Memphis Safe Task Force was deployed last fall, the Collierville Police Department did something unexpected. 

District officials estimate 2,650 students would go to a new school or get new classmates, a smaller figure than it could be. That’s because many of the students who are zoned to attend the schools don’t, according to district data obtained and reviewed by The Daily Memphian. 

The candidates each talked about their differences with each other as the campaigns move past introductions.

A total of 121 candidates made the deadline to file their qualifying petitions with the Shelby County Election Commission.

Topping the council’s agenda are final votes on the first step toward a Hyde Square plaza Downtown, as well as discussion on changing the status of library workers and an update on the city’s bus system.

MSCS audit reveals payroll problems, the Sheraton reno has a timeline and we’ve got the recipe for a Good Fortune ramen bowl.

This week brings us the NFL Combine and two Tigers tackles who get to attend and a deadline to not run for office. 

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.