Shelby County Commissioner Mick Wright had hopes of unifying the county through a redesigned flag, but that won't happen right away.

Tennessee House Democrats want to ask about a pot of money tucked into the Department of Economic and Community Development’s budget. 

Red Cross shelter closes, but agency and others in the city still helping storm victims with support services. 

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland announced Friday that the city is holding a community meeting Nov. 7 to gain public input on the 40-year-old police consent decree.

New House Speaker Cameron Sexton is moving the House Finance, Ways & Means Committee's department budget hearings to a November-December schedule, away from the long practice of holding them during the regular session.

All of the speculation regarding the guest picker for college games on Saturday's ESPN broadcast. All hail the King of Prognosticating. 

Rhodes will implement a strategic plan, including setting up training programs that will center on sexual assault prevention, victim support and responding to interpersonal violence and stalking. 

Some Shelby County Schools board members initially rejected the remote teaching idea in a committee meeting, but support mounted last week as district leaders explained the dire teacher vacancy situation.

On "Behind The Headlines," Jim Strickland says the city should be able to fund the restoration of benefits with the recently approved half cent sales tax hike for several years. Beyond that, expenses will probably exceed revenues, which is something he and the city council will discuss Tuesday. 

East Memphis Republican will travel Tennessee working for Lipscomb's College of Leadership & Public Service.

The five early voting sites opening Friday join a single early voting site Downtown that was open for the first week of the voting period. 

Democrats in the General Assembly, including Memphis lawmakers, want hearings into a $4 million “slush fund” for rural grants, some raising questions about whether it was designed to reward legislators who voted for the governor’s voucher bill.

Anwar Ghazali, found guilty in the shooting death of 17-year-old Dorian Harris over a stolen beer, was sentenced Thursday to 22 years in prison without parole.

Memphis Light Gas and Water Division president CEO J.T. Young talks about the report recommending a cut in more than 300 employees, other savings and the rate hike proposal he is about to take to City Hall.

New Barn Organics announced it is transitioning its Almond Milk line from plastic packaging to Evergreen Packaging’s PlantCarton paper packaging.

Billy Ray Turner, the lone remaining defendant in the slaying of former NBA star Lorenzen Wright, returns to court Dec. 4 for a likely trial date. 

State Rep. Mark White supports legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn to move federal agencies out of Washington, D.C., and bring the Education Department to Tennessee.

Nigerian activist Hafsat Abiola, entertainer John Legend and feminist icon Gloria Steinem talked of past struggles and present challenges and the ties between them as they were Wednesday in Memphis. 

The Election Commission considered changing the hours for early voting to open all six sites in the city council runoff races ahead of Friday. But the commission decided instead to set a policy on the issue in future elections. 

The National Assessment of Educational Progress is given every two years to provide a snapshot of U.S. student achievement for the Nation’s Report Card. With the showing, Tennessee defied national downward trends and edged closer to — but still fell short of — its ambitious goal of moving into the top half of states by 2019. 

Shelby County officials say they know Corrections Division Director Anthony Alexander has property in Atoka, Tennessee, in Tipton County. Now they’re investigating if that’s where he really lives, in violation of requirements he live in Shelby County.

The most significant jump in student performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, was in eighth-grade math where the average score increased by about eight points.

Lee Harris wants the University of Memphis to give a timeline for when its lowest-paid workers will be paid $15 an hour as part of the release of $1 million budgeted for the university to update its swim facility. 

Spelman College president receives Hooks National Book Award.

A student with disabilities was left alone in a second-story classroom during a fire drill, and punished for using a cellphone to call her mother and the fire department, federal lawsuit alleges.