Hospital has nearly half the serious cases in the state.

Former Memphis Tiger and Grizzlies player Antonio Burks is charged with operating an illegal poker and gambling house.

Sherra Wright, the ex-wife of slain basketball star Lorenzen Wright, has withdrawn her request to overturn her guilty plea in the death.

The delay comes after all seven city mayors in Shelby County came out against the switch from a four-year reappraisal cycle to the two-year cycle approved earlier this year by the Shelby County Commission.

More employers are looking to vaccine mandates (while at least one may be regretting theirs), Dillon Brooks gave ESPN viewers a start, and a new proposal could change the very landscape of Memphis.

No decision yet at Baptist, the area’s largest system; 58% of its 19,000 employees are vaccinated.

The BDC Business Hub represents the nonprofit’s most significant job training and creation endeavor yet. The site will also house business tenants aligned with its mission and commitment toward offering more opportunities for Binghampton residents.

The veto override by the commission is the latest chapter in an ongoing dispute between County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. and Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris.

The delays to the Aug. 23 commission meeting followed a rancorous debate among commissioners and between commissioners and anti-maskers who taunted one commissioner online before Monday’s session.

Attorneys for pretrial detainees at the Shelby County Jail claim the county has not satisfied the requirements of a consent decree. 

While other districts struggle with trying to appease parents over whether students should wear masks, Bartlett City Schools will continue to follow the direction of the county Health Department.

Collierville will enforce masking at its schools. Students who do not mask will be sent home.

Parents in Collierville are divided on the Shelby County Health Department’s mandate and the district’s decision to align its guidelines accordingly. 

For the first time since March 2020, all Shelby County Schools students were expected to return to in-person classes amid rising COVID-19 cases. 

Gas stations and used-tire shops no longer fit within the long-range plans for 21 commercial districts across Memphis, according to a new recommendation from the Division of Planning & Development.

Students who do not comply and do not qualify for an exemption are to be sent home.

We have an Ancer to the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, questions about critical race theory in schools and a big get for the U of M. 

Financial advisers say possible changes to the stepped-up basis on inherited property could impact wealth transfer more than other proposals being considered.

The commission is the latest body to take up a call for a countywide mask mandate that would come from the Shelby County Health Department. The health department amended its latest health directive Friday to require all K-12 students in all schools – public and private – across the county to wear masks as the school year begins. Also on Monday’s agenda is a veto override.

Failed contract negotiations add to Head Start’s troubled local history, but advocates say that shouldn’t overshadow impressive pre-K advances.

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Early childhood education advocates say access to high-quality child care is the next goal for more than 40,000 children under age 4.

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Here’s how some area colleges are handling vaccinations as students return to school for the fall. One is even paying students $1,000 to be vaccinated for COVID-19.

Here, in a nutshell, is a definition of critical race theory and why people are talking about it.