Gov. Bill Lee’s Thursday press briefing is in progress.

The positivity rate for COVID-19 tests is on the rise in Shelby County suburbs and rural West Tennessee.

The Shelby County Health Department reported 105 new coronavirus cases and one new related death on Thursday, Sept. 10.

The state requires 6.5 hours of daily instruction, which can be met through recorded lessons and students independently completing assignments, as well as teacher-led live lessons.

There are 199 COVID-positive patients in area hospitals; 73 of those are in ICUs.

History teacher Daniel Warner has been recognized by the Tennessee Department of Education for his work at East High School.

Local doctors say science has to prevail in race for safe, effective vaccine.

SWAT team deputies with Shelby County Sheriff's Office fatally shoot man barricaded in home in Fayette County. 

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.

Investors should look at their time horizon and goals for retirement, not base decisions on any one event, local wealth managers say.

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.