MPD officer and another driver were killed in a crash on Shelby Drive and Pleasant Hill early Thursday morning. 

DMC selects local team to redevelop Memphis’ tallest building, Collierville Macy’s will get new life and Germantown schools drop their mask mandate. 

Students in these clubs will learn life skills to help them reach their full potential, learning about healthy choices, character development, education and leadership, athletics and the arts. 

The board instituted a mask mandate on Dec. 31 due to the rise in COVID-19 cases following the holidays and unknowns related to the Omicron variant.

A juvenile was among those wounded outside the Balmoral Shopping Center on Wednesday.

Three county commissioners voted against the $1.44 million purchase of 180,000 tests in 90 kits with two tests a piece. One cited comments by Dr. Ben Carson on Fox News earlier this week complaining that more tests would mean a rise in COVID cases.

Baby antelopes “Hinata” and “Zito” are the Memphis Zoo’s first babies of the new year. 

The masks will be available for pickup at pharmacies and community health centers across the country. 

Justin Johnson and Cornelius Smith made their first court appearance Wednesday, Jan. 19. 

Local gas station proposal is a no-go, Horn Lake tries to stand out with a new recruiter and Ida B. Wells street is on the way. 

The latest map would split Tipton County along U.S. 51, and about 30,000 Shelby County residents would be drawn out of Republican Rep. David Kustoff’s district.

Shelby County Schools will formally recommend the closures of Shady Grove Elementary and Alton Elementary Schools. The changes will go to a vote at the board’s business meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 25. 

The elaborately designed convenience store with gas pumps and retail bays would have been built at 2977 Broad Ave. at Tillman Street and Sam Cooper Boulevard.

Shelby County commissioners meet in special session Wednesday, Jan. 19, to approve $1.4 million in funding to buy 15,000 COVID self-test kits at a unit price that comes to 180,000 tests.

The name change approved Tuesday changes the street’s name on city maps and as a mailing address.

The state has lowered the percentage it expects to make on investments that finance pension funds. By state law, the city of Memphis must lower its discount rate as well in the spring budget season. 

Scheidt’s children are creating a matching fund, meaning that the goal is that the new fund will raise $1 million total.

Calling it a “terrible reality,” Memphis City Councilman Worth Morgan said that “people are not being held accountable for fleeing from police.”

Map draws protesters to the Capitol, Mid-South families are looking for their pets and Olive Branch sets a course for regional passenger jets. 

Candidates who won’t be on the ballot until August are actively campaigning along with those in partisan races whose first hurdle is the May county primaries.

On Tuesday, Jan. 18, District Attorney General Amy Weirich will talk about how her office prosecutes reckless driving and drag racing cases. 

“This is a racist power grab for Republicans to try to cheat their way to more power,” said Charlane Oliver, cofounder and co-executive director of The Equity Alliance. “We will obstruct, we will disrupt any chance we get.”

The inaugural Race for Reconciliation on Monday, Jan. 17, was designed to bring Memphians together as a community.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland says it’s a lack of manpower and not a lack of money that is hampering traffic enforcement efforts on interstates. 

Sunny Eaton, who runs Nashville’s Conviction Review Unit, said, “These wins are the kind that are absolutely changing lives for people who never deserved to be in that position.”