On Behind The Headlines, Memphis River Parks Partnership President Carol Coletta offered few clues about what the mediation over the redesign of Tom Lee Park will mean. 

State House members criticized Department of Human Services Commissioner Danielle Barnes this week for letting a reserve fund for needy services build up to $732 million and for putting out a plan to spend it without asking permission.

Will help train nurse practitioners and physicians assistants in practice of rheumatology.

All the makings for 2,000 Thanksgiving dinners were handed out to military veterans on Thursday at the Fairgrounds.

Mayor Jim Strickland officially unveiled plans Thursday for the naming rights of the Renasant Convention Center. The 10-year deal with renewals clauses should pay about half of the $2 million in the red that convention center operates at annually, according to Strickland.

The Department of Education released a statement Wednesday aimed at settling questions about the tax implications of receiving an education savings account under a new law championed by Gov. Bill Lee. 

Ed Stanton, the court monitor, provided updates Thursday to the court on the progress the city is making to comply with sanctions imposed by U.S. District Judge Jon McCalla over its violation of the 1978 Kendrick consent decree.

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.