Shelby County Juvenile Court has made progress on equal protection but there is still work to be done, according to Department of Justice equal protection monitor Michael Leiber.

Tennessee Democratic Party chairwoman Mary Mancini says physical confrontations in the recent State Capitol protest are not justified. During a Memphis visit Thursday, she also talked about the crushing Democratic losses statewide in the 2018 elections and redistricting reforms.

Gov. Bill Lee calls for eliminating the $180 state expungement fee to make it easier for people to wipe their records clean, advocates say. The move drew wide praise from those in Memphis.

• Jerry Lee Lewis recovering from minor stroke
• MAA seeks to raise $300 million in offering
• Shelby schools to benefit from $1 million CMA grant program

John Ryder's confirmation by the Senate came on a busy Thursday in D.C. that included U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander calling from the Senate floor for an alternative to President Donald Trump's national emergency.

Two students are expected to be charged in connection with an incident with legislators at the State Capitol over the controversial Nathan Bedford Forrest bust. The bust prompted a letter from U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen of Memphis to Gov. Bill Lee asking for its removal. 

• New Collierville offices being built
• Dixie Pickers store closing in Collierville
• International Paper reports fourth-quarter earnings
• New report shows increase in Shelby County new business filings in 2018
• Veesart Financial completes transition with new name, leadership
• Tennessee historical marker at LeMoyne-Owen to honor sit-ins

• New Collierville offices being built 
• Dixie Pickers closing in Collierville
• Tennessee historical marker at LeMoyne-Owen to honor sit-ins

• NAI Saig moving to Poplar Towers
• More ABRA body shops coming
• Ballet Memphis announces inaugural New American Dance Residency participants

• LeMoyne-Owen cancels night classes because of power outage
• Shelby County Juvenile Court Judge to hold state of court address
• Memphis Blight Elimination Steering Team releases Top 10 code violators

• Airport board OKs surveillance, parking system contracts
• Amazon to fund computer science courses in seven Memphis area high schools
• Graceland hiring part-time security guards

• Chris Jenkins named Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett COO
• Airport board OKs surveillance, parking system contracts
• Amazon to fund computer science courses in seven Memphis-area high schools

• St.Jude to receive $6.5 million Cancer Support Center grant 
• Lee announces mental health, suicide prevention efforts
• Tech901 receives First Tennessee Foundation grant 

• Methodist-Germantown to get MRI/RT Linear Accelerator for cancer treatment
• First Horizon achieves SBA's Preferred Lender Program status
• Agricenter is Germantown Chamber's 2018 Non-Profit of the Year

• Fogelman Properties buys Houston apartments
• Sullivan Branding receives Best of Show award at 2019 AAF Memphis American Advertising Awards 
• Stephen Bush retires as public defender
• U of M awarded National Science Foundation grant

Shelby County Republican Party chairman Chris Tutor says his conservative views expressed at a party convention Sunday are his own beliefs but don't reflect the platform of the local party as it rebuilds. 

Memphis rapper BlocBoy JB surrenders to Shelby County Sheriff's Office after it issued a warrant for his arrest on drug, gun charges. 

As President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Memphis' congressional representatives were each doing other things in the course of their duties – and three of the four were saying nothing about Cohen’s testimony.

The new University of Memphis Middle School would stretch the concept of learning for younger public school students, if the Shelby County Schools board approves the plan Tuesday. 

Shelby County Republican Party chairman Chris Tutor talks about the call and debate by some Republicans to do away with partisan county primaries and his vision of a “big tent” for the local party.

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen sends Gov. Bill Lee a second letter urging him to call for removal of the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust from the State Capitol in light of Lee's "stated regret" for glorifying the "Old South" while in a fraternity at Auburn.

Logistics has been making a comeback recently after some have questioned whether the mainstay of the Memphis economy needs incentives or extra attention in the city’s ongoing bid to create good-paying jobs.

State Rep. Tom Leatherwood of Arlington called his proposal to make local election nonpartisan in Shelby and Davidson counties a "good government" bill, but it died in a House subcommittee Wednesday.

An early look at Mayor Jim Strickland's still forming budget proposal to come in April shows in 2026 the city will be paying $40 million less in debt. Meanwhile, the budget plan will mark the city's final of five installments toward an annual pension liability payment estimated at around $78 million going forward.

The university aims for a third of students to be children of University of Memphis full-time faculty and staff, a third to live within two miles of the school, and a third to be from elsewhere in the district.