We're talking about kids and COVID, whether the Sheriff's Office should get tanks or bayonets, and a fresh, new East Memphis cafe. 

The Tennessee Department of Education scrubbed its Best for All Central virtual teaching site of Common Core resources after questions were raised about the controversial curriculum, leaving no extra worksheets in its place on most of its teaching options for students learning remotely.

Lawsuit challenged the Tennessee state law preventing first-time voters from using expanded eligibility for absentee voting during the pandemic.

U of M says extra week will give it more time to work out logistics of having more students on campus. 

It is the first reported death from the coronavirus at the facility. 

The three ordinances are scheduled for the first of three votes on Monday. And still to weigh in on the proposals is Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner.

The Tennessee Department of Education has launched an online dashboard with COVID-19 case information at school and district levels. It shows 514 student cases and 242 staff cases statewide.

“Our vision is for this program to be an example of how a minority firm can perform at the same level of service as majority firms,” said Michael Hooks Jr., CEO of Allworld Project Management.

Shelby County commissioners will consider distributing $3.4 million for the local suburbs in their meeting Monday.

The number of deaths reported, however, was relatively high. 

Patients should bring their insurance card – BlueCross BlueShield or others – to receive the shot as part of their insurance. For uninsured patients, the flu shot will cost $41.

Home prices are up, inventory is down and we're watching out for one Heck of a golfer. And summer may be over, but there's still time for a staycation. 

The latest edition of our City Council scorecard finds a healthy council majority in favor of changing street names as part of a slate of Black Lives Matter proposals. Plus, the Council held a unanimous vote to begin changing the business streetscape along a stretch of Lamar Avenue.

Former Republican state Senator and Juvenile Court Judge Curtis Person Jr. died Friday at the age of 85. He began his political career as a Democratic state Representative and ended it 48 years later with a single term as one of only three elected Juvenile Court Judges in Shelby County over the past 55 years.

Some four weeks into the school year, the Tennessee Department of Education is postponing a new COVID-19 tracking site because of technical problems.

A teachers' group is urging the state to speed up the phase-out of Tennessee’s Achievement School District and return those schools, most of them in Memphis, to their local school districts.

County health department officials visited 13 sites that have received complaints for failing to follow distancing or masking or other rules; five were closed after failing to heed warnings. 

On Tuesday, the Health Department reported 146 new coronavirus cases from 2,572 tests, giving today a positivity rate of 5.7%.

Symposium designed for health care workers treating COVID-19 patients is open to the public.

In addition to the 146 new cases, the Shelby County Health Department reported no new related deaths on Tuesday.

It's Tuesday, Sept. 8, and we've got bars reopening under different rules, scientists pivoting for the public good, and the backstory between MLGW and TVA. We're also talking about the Tigers' first game and where they go from here. 

In a repurposed lab at 930 Madison, UTHSC analyzes about a third of the city's COVID-19 tests, reporting responses in 24 hours.

The county reported 161 new coronavirus tests on Labor Day. Out of those tests, 125 were positive.

Young adults in Youth Villages' LifeSet program already were living on the edge. And then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and things got tougher. Fortunately, many of the LifeSet clients have, with help, found a way to march on toward their goals. 

Here are some of the key dates in the MLGW-TVA saga over the last eight decades, starting with Nov. 6, 1934.