The 686 cases come from 6,396 tests, giving the day a positivity rate of 10.7%.

Shelby County Schools identified $7.6 million in savings from switching to all virtual instruction since August to make the increases happen. They apply to all full-time and part-time employees, regardless of performance.

The flu vaccine, given every year, has an efficacy rate of 40%-50%.

We’ve got local leaders thinking about medical marijuana, a new deli coming to Arlington and we’re talking out of school, especially when it comes to Collierville Middle. 

A variety of community voices spoke out on police reform during two discussions last week. 

Two conversations about police reform show the more detailed the proposed reforms become, the more differences they reveal.

Collierville Middle Schools students will not return to campus until after Thanksgiving due to a COVID-19 outbreak.

Shelby County has surpassed 42,000 COVID-19 cases. A total of 612 people have died with the virus. An estimated 38,529 people have recovered.

Memphis is ahead of the curve in reversing the results of old rules and regulations that encouraged segregation and created pockets of poverty. So changes in the federal fair housing policy have had little impact. 

Testing at Cordova site will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

From Oct. 31 to Saturday, Nov. 14, the Shelby County Health Department recorded an average of 285 new cases and 3,228 tests performed each day with an 8.8% positivity rate.

Gov. Bill Lee wants to maintain funding for public schools in Tennessee’s next budget, even as a statewide decline in student enrollment would normally result in a decrease of at least $320 million.

The Unity Walk Against Gun Violence held Saturday marks a year when the city set a new high for homicides by September. As of Nov. 13, there have been 271 homicides, 43 more than the previous high of 228 in 2016.

Overall, the Health Department has reported 41,747 coronavirus cases and 610 deaths, classifying 37,988 cases as inactive/recovered. Active cases in Shelby County stand at 3,149, an increase from the 3,105 reported Friday.

Thanks to a $130,000 grant, education classes will continue remotely for inmates at the Shelby County Correctional Center. 

The chairman of the Shelby County legislative delegation to the Tennessee General Assembly talked about the issue on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast. 

The Shelby County Schools district says 65% of parents who responded to a survey want their children off-campus when school resumes in person in January; 24% chose in-school learning and 11% didn’t respond.

Healthy Frayser celebrated its first anniversary Friday, Nov. 13 by opening a second food sustainability hub. Each week residents from food insecure neighborhoods can pick up a free meal. 

Both are scheduled to reopen when employees return from isolation.

Community leaders will discuss why it is necessary for the city to have more Black college graduates.

There were 376 COVID-positive patients in area hospitals as of 5 p.m. Thursday, according to the Tennessee Healthcare Resource Tracking System.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will offer a testing site for the Phase 3 clinical trial and are seeking 500 participants.

With millions of dollars of work needed at Mud Island, what happened with all the other ideas for some of Memphis’ most valuable property? 

Amid raised concerns about the coronavirus, we’re dusting off the Rust, looking at new homes in Germantown and, just in general, hamming it up.

If the field hospital has to open, the region will be in a mess, Dr. Richard Walker says, and health care workers will be scarce.