The Mexican Consulate is giving away educational books Thursday, Nov. 21, for Memphis students in grades 1-6 at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library.

Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association has been awarded a $5 million grant from the Day 1 Families Fund. 

Eight schools could be forced to accept fewer students next year or un-enroll some students if the Shelby County Schools board follows staff recommendations presented this week.

Team honored with Smithsonian's American Ingenuity Award for Life Sciences.

House Minority Leader Karen Camper will ask the Department of Finance & Administration about 50 to 60 “commitments” for rural grants to be awarded from a $4 million pool criticized as a “slush fund” to reward lawmakers for their voucher votes.

Convicted felon and former state senator John Ford has filed a petition to run for Shelby County General Sessions Court Clerk, but state officials say a judge's order concerning his bribery conviction while in office bars him from running.

Gov. Bill Lee hopes to add people and services to TennCare through the state’s Medicaid “modified” block grant proposal to the federal government, but admits he has no idea how negotiations will turn out.

Mayor Jim Strickland has announced several leadership changes in his administration as he moves into his second term beginning Jan. 1.

The Little Rock woman accused in the shooting death of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church Executive Pastor Brodes Perry will report back to court Jan. 22.

More than 100 Rhodes College students sat in the darkness Tuesday night listening as their peers talked about their experience with sexual assault.

A House member confirmed Tuesday being questioned in the past two months by Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents looking into allegations former House Speaker Glen Casada offered lawmakers favors in return for votes on the voucher bill this spring.

The council approved a November 2020 referendum on a residency requirement for police and fire fighters Tuesday on the first of three votes. 

Collierville is looking for the most festive homes in town to be included on its annual Collierville lights tour.

Santa Claus will visit Memphis on Saturday, Nov. 23, at the Pink Palace Museum.

Leaders in the Achievement School District, charter schools that took over historically low-performing schools, fear further state cuts would seriously affect special education programs for students with some of the highest needs.

Tom Intrator, 18 S. Main developer, took the concept of aligned development to City Council members Tuesday as they reviewed a unique tax incentive for the $1.1 billion project that is a PILOT used like a TIF.

Memphis-based global logistics firm Dunavant has opened its 20th location with a new container drayage terminal at the Port of Baltimore.

The program is on track to launch in the fall of 2020, a year earlier than required under a new state law. Lee ordered the accelerated timeline this summer.

Memphis City Council members have paperwork on their agenda Tuesday for the second convention center hotel project, changes to the Union Row project incentives and a supplement to the Pinch District redevelopment.

State Rep. G.A. Hardaway is insisting House leaders live up to a commitment to investigate allegations of misconduct made against state Rep. David Byrd as a high school girls basketball coach 30 years ago.

A public comment session Monday at the Central Library drew several dozen people and plenty of reminders of the city's long-running debate about the bus system run by the Memphis Area Transit Authority. The corridor has almost all of the $74 million to build the Union and Poplar corridor that would start operations in 2024.

A month after Shelby County Register of Deeds Shelandra Ford told county elected officials that without more money she wouldn't manage their records, the County Commission did not approve funding to hire more archives workers.

The various Shelby County law enforcement agencies will oversee implementation of a new security camera program for the county, according to a resolution approved Monday by the County Commission to establish program guidelines.

The Shelby County Commission voted Monday to transfer $80,000 to the Health Department to cover the cost to test potentially 19,000 students at 35 schools where excessive levels of lead were found in water sources.

State education vouchers worth $7,300 that Shelby County parents can use to send their children to private schools will count as federally taxable income, according to Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn.