In Shelby County, 331,167 people have been tested for coronavirus; 12% of them have received a positive result.

By the third week in November, Pfizer expects it will have the final data required to apply to the FDA for emergency-use authorization.

Plus, a new kind of residential subdivision, African pop on two new radio shows, and Oprah’s 2020 list of favorite things includes a treat from Memphis.

As the numbers tick up, Memphis and four other municipalities see similar trajectories.

The Tennessee State Board of Education has given initial approval to proposed revisions that increase coursework in basic statistics, including understanding and using data. 

A resolution by Edmund Ford Jr. on setting deadlines and milestones for the county budget season is on the County Commission’s agenda for Monday, Nov. 9. 

Shelby County reported 376 COVID-19 cases after more than 5,000 tests. The newly reported data comes one day after 17 cases were reported. Data entry has not caught up to an IT upgrade Tennessee Department of Health made last weekend.

Homicides involving children are on the rise, and community leaders are looking for answers.

Shelby County Schools plans to phase in students with disabilities by their grade, some as early as Jan. 4 

From Oct. 24 to Saturday, Nov. 7, the Shelby County Health Department reported an average of 225 new coronavirus cases and 2,840 test results a day with a 7.9% positivity rate.

Overall, the Health Department has reported 39,048 total coronavirus cases and 583 deaths, classifying 36,049 cases as inactive/recovered. 

An IT upgrade to the state’s National Electronic Disease Surveillance System Base System threw off COVID case data entry, creating lags in case numbers that persisted throughout the week.

The previously in-person conference has been replaced by a two-hour webinar, another casualty of the coronavirus.

While presidential battleground states continue to count votes, the count in Shelby County is quietly moving toward completion with a large number of provisional ballots.

Gov. Bill Lee temporarily halts Dec. 3 execution of death row inmate Pervis Payne because of COVID-19 concerns. 

The 290 cases come from 2,549 tests, which gives the day a positivity rate of 11.4%.

While neither presidential candidate has reached the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the White House, Joe Biden is on the verge and told Americans in a Friday night address that he and running mate Kamala Harris are taking meetings on assuming leadership.

We’re talking about police brutality and how it’s handled, how you pronounce Marechalneil and what we think about the speed of U.S. election results. 

As the Memphis Police Department weighs a request by District Attorney General Amy Weirich to start sending all confirmed cases of excessive force to her office for criminal review, this hotly disputed September 2016 incident illustrates how thorny Weirich’s proposal may be.

Related Story: A third of MPD excessive force findings are reversed by commanders

On Behind The Headlines, Republican Party Chairman Chris Tutor says “don’t vote Democrat” if you want to see Memphis have more power in the state capitol. Democratic Party Chairman Michael Harris says Republicans in state government are explicitly ignoring Memphis.

The City Council-appointed citizens panel decided Thursday its priority will be eliminating Confederacy-related names from city street and finding problematic street names for first responders. The group is to make recommendations to the Memphis City Council.

Case of Memphis police lieutenant allegedly choking a woman in a bar fight is among a third of cases in which MPD commanders reversed investigators and dismissed excessive force charges.

Trump lashed out Thursday evening in a performance that suggested he knew his prospects for a second term were slipping away.

The advisory board offers local guidance to the University of Tennessee board of trustees. 

Test to Protect will work by allowing businesses to test their own employees with PCR nose-swab kits they can use at work or in their homes.