Judge sets sentencing hearing for March 3 in state Sen. Katrina Robinson’s fraud case. 

Shelby County now offering booster shots for children ages 12 to 15. 

Charges are dropped in Collierville against Tony Allen; Brooks takes another look at local office; and will the area ever get new voting machines? 

The former county commissioner has pulled petitions to seek a return to the County Commission or to run for Juvenile Court Clerk. 

The Tennessee Department of Education released a draft of its new education funding framework Tuesday, Jan. 11, the same day lawmakers began this year’s regular legislative session.

Justin Johnson had posted on social media that he planned to surrender locally on Monday, Jan. 10, but did not. He was arrested in Indiana, and a second suspect, Cornelius Smith, was arrested in Southaven.

State lawmakers have descended on Nashville for three months of committee hearings, debates and vote-wrangling over how to spend taxpayer dollars.

The dismissal came after Allen and his wife, Desiree, the victim in the Nov. 28 incident, appeared in court together Tuesday afternoon with attorney Leslie Ballin. 

Memphis community organizations are offering several days of upcoming volunteer opportunities in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. 

 A Chancery Court lawsuit preserved the stalemate between the Shelby County Election Commission and the Shelby County Commission over a way forward in the controversy. 

COVID staffing shortages are affecting high schools and donut shops, James Wiseman revisits his time at East and we could have a “complete” Summer by 2024. 

The first Council Scorecard of the new year chronicles a rare defeat of an appointment from the city court clerk’s office and a few notes about the start of the second half of the current council’s four-year term.

The 5.5 mile section on the main thoroughfare may soon become a “complete” or multimodal street that is safer for everyone, including drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists. The improvements may also attract new businesses and people to the area.

The money will mean raises of up to 20% for guards working at prisons run by the county administration.

Edmund Ford Jr. said he was “sort of offended” after an executive from The Commercial Appeal complained to the commission over Ford’s treatment of a reporter. 

Shelby County Health Department director Dr. Michelle Taylor also complained about employers requiring a test for workers who have quarantined for the recommended five days to return to work after initially testing positive for COVID.

Police Chief C.J. Davis reported a duty weapon assigned to her was stolen from a vehicle parked outside a Cordova business.

The decision comes eight days after the board did not vote to implement universal masking in schools despite Superintendent Gary Lilly’s concerns about staffing issues.

“Oh, Omicron, when are you gonna be gone?” That’s Britton DeWeese’s question as he sits at home, recovered but with a sick family and a work staff continuing to test positive.

Both defendants in the homicide have remained in jail without bond since their 2018 arrests.

Highway patrol points city to (possibly) forgotten funding to catch speeders, doctors urge pregnant women to get vaccinated and a veterans organization is checking out a new Jackson Avenue facility.

Residency requirements, reckless driving and Germantown’s namesake schools are among the issues lawmakers plan to address at the upcoming General Assembly session. School funding reform might have to wait until next year.

Republican mayoral contender Worth Morgan emphasized his differences on crime with Democratic incumbent Lee Harris. The three Democrats seeking to challenge Republican District Attorney Amy Weirich in August said the prosecutors office would change profoundly if any of them upset Weirich.

County commissioners will get their second briefing from the Health Department in a week about the effect the new Omicron variant is having on local hospital capacity.

The top five votes by the Memphis City Council include what happened after a crude oil pipeline plan was withdrawn and the council’s do-over on the work toward a possible MLGW split from TVA.