Two Shelby County Jail inmates died on Thursday and Friday, bringing the total to four this week.

Shelby County Jail is packed, and Greater Memphis is getting more hot pot, more seafood and more burgers.

The average population at 201 Poplar has grown by roughly 600 inmates over the past two years.

The private school opened the third campus in an effort to diversify its student body. The Memphis campus could become a public school by the fall. 

State lawmakers try to deny education access, the County Commission may order an MSCS audit and business owners deal with egg-flation.

Without a revived contract with Memphis-Shelby County Schools, the Peer Power Foundation began working instead with area charter schools, board co-chair Dow McVean wrote in a public letter Wednesday.

The legislation would directly challenge a more than 40-year-old precedent that ensures all children access to a free public education regardless of immigration status.

“We are not going to give up one of our greatest traditions because of a few people who have no parenting at home and can’t act right,” Mayor Darren Musselwhite said about the upcoming Springfest.

The Shelby County Board of Commissioners will vote on the resolution at its Monday, Feb. 10, meeting, authorizing $50,000 from the commission’s contingency fund to pay for the audit.

The three-day festival was “paused” in 2024, Memphis in May officials said at the time, largely due to issues regarding the reconfigured Tom Lee Park that led to a less-than-successful 2023 installment of the event.

DeSoto officials deny racism claims, FedExForum reno will take a hot minute and an NYC seafood joint is coming to Beale Street.

Ninety-four-year-old Thelma Scott gave up her season ticket this year. But give up on her Tigers? Not a chance. The university gave her a life she couldn’t have imagined. And it is still giving her friends.

The return of the Shelby Farm Parkway proposal comes two years after it was removed from the city’s list of road projects. The Greater Memphis Chamber is pushing for its return.

The awards ceremony will begin with reception at 5:30 p.m. in the Michael D. Rose Theatre on the University of Memphis campus.

City Council members said Tuesday they still need a financial accounting of how MATA spent past city funding before a new board was installed in October.

Memphis Mayor Paul Young outlined the next steps in the planned renovations of FedExForum on Tuesday, Feb. 4.

Kelly faces capital murder charges stemming from a 2022 shooting rampage that left three people dead amid a frantic manhunt and a citywide shelter-in-place order.

An xAI representative received a mixed reception from the Memphis City Council regarding the company’s plan to buy 13 city-owned acres where it will build the greywater plant. 

A man died Tuesday after experiencing a medical emergency while in police custody. 

Another 201 inmate died over the weekend, three consider a run for county mayor and JJJ seeks out chaos in Florida.

Former Superintendent Marie Feagins claims in a new lawsuit that Memphis-Shelby County Schools board members violated the Tennessee Open Meetings Act in their pursuit to fire her. The violation, she claims, should void the vote to oust her.

The latest deaths mark at least the 55th and 56th death at the jail since 2019.

XAI applied for a permit to construct the water reuse facility last year.