Shelby County Schools has announced that employees can receive up to 10 consecutive days of paid sick leave while in isolation following a positive COVID-19 test. 

The county clerk is appealing for a county audit of how her office is funded a week after the Tennessee Comptroller ended a similar investigation, saying he found no evidence of fraud and that revenue in Halbert’s office was going where it was supposed to go.

The next step for Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis is creating a strategic plan best utilizing the department’s current resources and ultimately leads to crime reduction – and a safer city.

The Shelby County Health Department is giving Pfizer doses at its offices at 814 Jefferson.

Watch the COVID-19 Task Force Briefing live now.

Former Memphis Tigers player Chris Douglas-Roberts among those charged with conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud totaling nearly $4 million.

Pfizer asked the U.S. government Thursday to allow use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11.

We’ve got Instagram moments, an idea sure to make a splash in Germantown and a new blue plate special for Tennessee. 

Germantown is beginning the process of providing its water services to residents in the southernmost portion of the city.

Pre-pandemic, many clergy were exhausted. The pandemic has only heightened the challenges. A workshop featuring psychologist Dr. Tony Headley will give faith leaders tools to take care of themselves, their families and their flocks.

The County Commission Scorecard highlights the commission’s choice of a new judicial commissioner and a call for U.S. Justice Department review of Juvenile Court and possibly a return to the federal oversight of the court that ended three years ago.

“Even though Memphis may seem like a smaller city or less important in the world of art, I think that the project is one of the most significant opportunities for me,” the artist said. 

Last month, more than 300,000 Tennesseans chose from four new license plates designed by Memphis-based digital marketing agency Speak Creative. We now know the winning selection.

Police said five people were in the home when three to four men kicked in the front door and ordered those in the home not to look at them.

The Shelby County Health Department reported 256 new coronavirus cases and 19 new coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday, Oct. 6. 

The FedExForum has a false alarm at Grizz’s first game, Broadway ‘comes from away’ back to Memphis and a COVID pill could be close. 

Think of it as Tamiflu for COVID.

Two Memphis organizations providing meals to children in the summer of 2020 billed the state for meals they didn’t serve. Federally funded food programs have been susceptible to fraud for years.

The council also delayed action on several resolutions awarding federal American Rescue Plan Act funding allocated for the council’s uses. 

The City Council approved the pipeline right-of-way ordinance on the first of three votes Tuesday, Oct. 5. It covers the entire city, requiring a permitting process for any work done beneath or across city streets. 

MPD officer accused of sexual assault is back on the force after charges were dropped and record cleared. 

City Council members took a test vote of sorts in committee sessions on a proposal to make pay of $21 an hour the minimum for getting tax breaks from EDGE. The new Ford plant in Haywood County came up in the discussion.

The council is on record opposing TVA’s plan to truck coal ash from the old Allen Fossil Plant to a landfill in Capleville. The Tuesday council committee discussion also ventured into TVA’s role in the Blue Oval City Ford battery plant. 

U.S. Marshals arrest man accused in fatal shooting of Rhodes student Drew Rainer. 

The county’s redistricting effort is on its third and fourth proposed maps of what the new boundaries could look like for the 13 County Commission districts going into the 2022 elections. A “Poplar-Midtown corridor” in the East Memphis district caused a lot of debate.