The Shelby County Sheriff's Department is searching for Blocboy JB, a Memphis rapper scheduled to appear at the Beale Street Music Festival in May.

The city’s image and its reality, 200 years after its founding sometimes part company in how the narrative of Memphis is told.

The potential for fraud has some Tennessee legislators, including Memphis Rep. Mark White and Memphis Sen. Raumesh Akbari, cautious about broader school choice options. 

Tennessee Elections Coordinator Mark Goins ruled Friday the Shelby County Election Commission cannot use instant-runoff voting in this October's city of Memphis elections. 

Tennessee education commissioner Penny Schwinn makes stops at two Shelby County High Schools just days after taking the state's top education post.

The late Carroll T. Dozier, the first bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Memphis, is among 42 priests named this week by the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, as having a "credible and substantiated" allegation of child sexual abuse against him.

• Methodist South Hospital names new president
• Bella Vita Gifts & Interiors moving to Germantown
• Methodist Le Bonheur, St. Jude and FedEx among 2019 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For

County Mayor Lee Harris gave his first State of the County address Friday, calling for a new direction in the economic development discussion. 

An ex-convict invited by President Trump to the State of the Union address is helping lead efforts to streamline the voter restoration process for people who "pay their debt to society."

Tennessee’s teacher training programs improved or maintained their scores on a report card released Friday, even as the number of would-be educators they graduated dipped for a third straight year.

The state Supreme Court agreed to give the Shelby County General Sessions Court Clerk's office 30 days to draft a policy on how it handles expungement filings after his staff failed to handle a case properly.

Less than one month after Joris Ray was named interim leader of Shelby County Schools, he has added two cabinet-level positions and replaced the district’s chief of staff.

This teacher learned a valuable lesson when his favorite student didn't stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. 

Over the past few months, Memphis and Shelby County Office of Re-Entry executive director Harold Collins has restructured the organization with the vision of those released from incarceration having a better chance at obtaining a living wage job.

• Methodist South Hospital names new president
• Bella Vita Gifts & Interiors moving to Germantown
• Methodist Le Bonheur, St. Jude and FedEx among 2019 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For

House Minority Leader calls for governor to retain authority to negotiate waiver with federal government without legislative approval.

The federal Housing and Urban Development wants Memphis to pay back millions spent in one of the biggest take-backs ever proposed by HUD.

Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday he wants to expand science, technology, engineering and mathematics offerings in Tennessee’s K-12 schools — and he’ll set aside $4 million in his proposed budget to pay for his so-called Future Workforce Initiative.

• Methodist Le Bonheur, St. Jude and FedEx among 2019 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For
• International Tea will benefit LeMoyne-Owen
• O.C. Pleasant Jr. Operations Center to be dedicated Friday

Republican state lawmakers are hoping to pass a law banning abortion in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. 

State Rep. Joe Towns of Memphis failed to file a third-quarter report in 2018, while the pre-general report last year of state Rep. G.A. Hardaway’s, also of Memphis, lacked sufficient information, official says.

• International Tea will benefit LeMoyne-Owen
• O.C. Pleasant Jr. Operations Center to be dedicated Friday
• Crosstown Concourse honored again

House Minority Leader Karen Camper and Senate Minority Chairman Raumesh Akbari say local governments need financial help housing undocumented immigrants following the enactment of the state's sanctuary cities law.

City Hall says a redeveloped Tom Lee Park can be done in coexistence with the Memphis In May International Festival and that the festival will likely have to move out of the park temporarily in 2020.

A collection of essays on the African-American struggle in Memphis by 17 historians is seen by its editors as a “powerful counter-narrative” to a more compressed history of the city.