After coming up short in council committee two weeks ago, a move to take a referendum on residency for police and firefighters off the November ballot died Tuesday, March 3, with a full city council vote.

Germantown traffic will be affected Sunday morning due to the city's 5K.

The ordinance formalizes the documentation employees must present when challenged about living in Shelby County.

Presidential campaign culture has some rules and habits that change over time and as technology changes. Here are a few observed locally in the campaign to Super Tuesday.

The resolution gives Shelby County employees six weeks of leave at full pay for employees who have babies or adopt. It would take effect July 1, 2020.

Memphians likely got their closest view of the presidential campaigns in the lead-up to Super Tuesday. The state isn't considered a battleground state in the general election.

Germantown Planning Commission recommended approval of a final plan for a 114-room hotel at Thornwood. The hotel is one of a few headed to Germantown.

It's Wednesday, March 4, and a Downtown board is looking at Memphis Made Brewing and sculptures on the riverfront. We've also got money for mamas, a profile of DittyTV and the businesswomen of Broad Avenue. 

Billed as a “one-stop shop” for parents, Tennessee School Finder focuses on school choices for families zoned to Shelby County Schools, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools and the state-run Achievement School District. 

Since Women of Achievement was founded in 1985, more than 250 women have been honored.

While the fight was for second place in the Democratic primary field of 13, Joe Brown emerged the victor in his second election in a year. He faces Republican Paul Boyd, upset in a Probate Court re-election bid two years ago in the August county general election.

Biden won big in the county and across the state with Bloomberg betting big on Super Tuesday as his entry point to the Democratic nomination. Bloomberg's early organization in Memphis proved no match for Biden's post-South Carolina momentum.

A Senate committee recommended passage of legislation enabling people to carry handguns without a state permit, despite hearing from police officers and the parent of a woman whose son was gunned down at an Antioch Waffle House.

With the backing of state Rep. Kevin Vaughan, medical cannabis legislation passed a House subcommittee Tuesday. The measure would set up a state system for clinical treatment and research, according to the bill's sponsor.

Strickland told city council members Tuesday that the referendum isn't binding on the city and that most voters would support such a use of extra revenue beyond a restoration of benefits cut by the city six years ago. The idea is still in the talking stage, with Strickland to take his plan to the council in April when he presents his city budget proposal.

Voters turned out to polling locations around town on Super Tuesday, March 3, to cast their ballot in the Tennessee presidential primaries and the primaries for Shelby County General Sessions Court Clerk.

Court monitor in consent decree case believes city has violated social media search sanction. A trial has been set for March 17. 

All of the kits from the backlog that first came to light in 2012 have been tested, Memphis Police say. About 6,000 cases in which DNA was found are awaiting investigation.

Responding to Cyntoia Brown's case, legislation by state Rep. London Lamar of Memphis has passed in the House enabling victims of human trafficking to use it as a self-defense in criminal cases.

A “massive act of nature” killed 23 people and destroyed buildings and homes from Benton County to downtown Nashville, Mt. Juliet and Cookeville early Tuesday, leaving people’s lives shattered as emergency workers searched for more missing people, officials said.

Tornadoes ripped across Tennessee early Tuesday, shredding at least 40 buildings and killing at least seven people. 

It's Super Tuesday, and in addition to election coverage, we've got a mansion with room for more, a tower with a view, Katori Hall and Post Malone.

Sewer infrastructure work for the One Beale project will stop traffic on Beale between Front and Riverside between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. March 9-March 20.

Democrat Joe Brown and Republican Paul Boyd are leading the way in the General Sessions Court Clerk primaries.

Memphis Zoo goers are closer to sipping a cold beer while hanging out with the animals after the state Senate passed legislation Monday allowing booze to be sold during regular business hours.