More than 90,000 coronavirus tests have been administered in Shelby County.

Test results are expected within about 48 hours. Kroger Health expects to administer 250 tests daily.

It's Wednesday, June 10, and we've got a new park view, perspective on Penny Hardaway's stand, and plans for police reform. 

The people involved in the George Floyd protests and activism in Memphis speak up. 

We start an ongoing scorecard of Shelby County Commission votes with a pair of budget season amendments and the latest incursion into a seven-year controversy about who gets the health insurance contract for 5,000 county employees.

The first reception to the council resolutions presented Tuesday comes with a record of past resistance that indicates it probably won't be as easy as a council vote. The resolutions are advisory.

The House Health Committee pushed an abortion bill to passage Tuesday with limited understanding of an amendment placed on the legislation.

Council members expressed alarm at the rise in the daily COVID-19 case count locally and are prepared to call a special meeting Friday to enact a mask requirement in public places within Memphis. 

A group of Memphis and Nashville residents challenging the state’s absentee ballot law is trying to force the state to follow a chancellor’s ruling for universal vote-by-mail during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The state House and Senate sent conflicting signals Tuesday, June 9, on the fate of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s bust in the State Capitol and a special day honoring his life. A Senate panel voted to keep Forrest Day while state Rep. London Lamar persuaded a House committee to get rid of the special day.

Memphis River Parks Partnership expects an October launch of the historic cobblestone landing restoration and November start on the first phase of Tom Lee Park's transformation.

Shelby County Health Department Director Alisa Haushalter said most of the 133 deaths in Shelby County are from nursing home clusters and outbreaks.

It's Tuesday, June 9, and we're looking to the police, the County Commission is struggling with its budget and the coronavirus isn't going away. Plus, there's a new plan for Downtown. 

The plan to balance the county budget came apart when the commission put too much weight on the idea that federal reimbursements for county dollars spent on the pandemic freed up about $4.8 million. It didn't. Then a move to cut the sheriff's department budget brought two weeks of protest over the George Floyd incident into the discussion.

A white state lawmaker from Ooltewah apologized to state Rep. Joe Towns, a black Memphis lawmaker, Monday evening, June 8, after making an off-hand comment about Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Rain brought a cancellation of Monday evening’s planned protest by DeVante Hill and Frank Gottie. 

In a demand letter to Sheriff Floyd Bonner, the ACLU and others allege that unsanitary conditions and inadequate preventative measures are jeopardizing the health of detainees in the jail.

The coronavirus reproduction rate has hovered at 1.2 during Phase 2 of the business reopening, which went into effect May 18.

The “Justice in Policing Act” was introduced in the House Monday. Hearings before the House Judiciary Committee, including U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, begin Wednesday.

Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer and protesters Monday addressed an incident in which two drivers drove through a protest in Cooper-Young last week. One woman was injured when she was hit by a SUV. 

As Mayor Jim Strickland vows to 'fix' police brutality against African American citizens, his staff puts up roadblocks to accessing records.

The Lee Administration is holding out hope it can use about $1 billion in CARES Act money to replace lost revenue, spending only about a fourth of $2.3 billion the federal government has sent Tennessee since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Memphis attorney Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg will be honored with the prestigious William M. Leech Jr. Public Service Award, which will be presented by the Tennessee Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division Fellows, on June 18.

When finished, the class may be converted to an experiential learning credit-bearing course.

Dr. Jon McCullers, Pediatrician in Chief at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, discusses where Memphis and Shelby County stand in the fight against COVID-19.