Memphis Light, Gas & Water confirms it is reviewing its failure to post financial disclosure forms on the Internet — just as City Council members begin asking critical questions.

The commission set the schedules Wednesday, Feb. 23, for taking applications, interviewing candidates and making the picks. 

The Shelby County Commission considers what to do about two vacant seats, a bill that would make Juneteenth a state holiday stalls and the Butler Row project moves forward. 

The county administration is working with a national coalition of local elected leaders to question the efficacy fines and fees in the local criminal justice system. Among the first changes, was dropping a fee for medical services at the county corrections center.

The commission could set dates Wednesday for interviewing applicants for the state Senate District 33 seat and the Memphis Shelby County Schools board seat.

Rainess Holmes has been indicted in fatal shooting of Andrew ‘Drew’ Rainer, a Rhodes College student who was shot and killed last year in a home invasion robbery. 

Dr. Peter Buckley’s vision for UTHSC is to raise the college’s profile. 

State Rep. Jason Powell plans to start a new caucus, the Train Travel Caucus, to increase rail infrastructure in Tennessee. 

The former director of youth basketball programming for the Memphis Grizzlies will lead the Memphis Sports & Events Center, which is under construction at Liberty Park.

“That peace today is over. It’s done. Putin has reemerged, and Russia has reemerged as a new world power,” Congressman David Kustoff, R-Germantown, told the Collierville Rotary Club.

“If we can expand this liaison partnership into other precincts, we can expand that work and keep children from coming into the juvenile court system,” Juvenile Court Judge Dan Michael said. 

The bill would have upgraded June 19 from a day of special observance to an official state holiday, giving state government workers the day off.

The winner between Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and challenger Ken Moody will face Republican nominee and Memphis City Council member Worth Morgan on the August ballot.

Steve Lockwood, who led the Frayser Community Development Corp. until his retirement in 2020, will serve as interim director.

A product recall is issued after thousands of dead rodents are found in a West Memphis Family Dollar distribution center, a new live-work-play development is proposed for Olive Branch, and a University of Memphis linebacker retires for medical reasons. 

In her recusal, Sarah Campbell cited a rule that says, “A judge shall disqualify himself or herself in any proceeding in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”

Live rodents, dead rodents in “various states of decay,” rodent feces, dead birds and bird droppings were found inside a West Memphis Family Dollar distribution facility, prompting a voluntary recall. 

An engineering report reveals how (and when) the Hernando-DeSoto bridge crack came to be, diners will soon be paying extra for takeout at some Memphis restaurants and the Memphis Tigers still have a chance at the NCAA tournament despite a big loss. 

The latest effort to increase enrollment at East High School is a merger with Maxine Smith STEAM Academy, but some have called what’s happened at East “educational redlining.” 

Hernando DeSoto Bridge vulnerabilities could have been detected four decades ago, ArDOT officials say.

The Remote Monitoring program is currently implemented in one home, with the goal of expanding to five houses where people supported through Shelby Residential and Vocational Services live.

“This bill does not ban any book,” state Sen. Jack Johnson said about the controversial Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022.

The nonprofit groups have received grants totaling $600,000 as part of a multi-year pledge by Nike Inc.

Election Commission Chairman Brent Taylor and Shelby County Commissioner Van Turner spoke on this week’s “Behind The Headlines.”

Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Chris Craft issued the ruling after hearing testimony from psychologists.