Among Gov. Lee’s five appointments to a Memphis schools takeover board are a former Memphis superintendent and former president of the Memphis Chamber.

Two longtime Memphis events return this weekend, right in time for Memorial Day. 

A planned execution is halted, a Cooper-Young restaurant building is for sale and the Tigers baseball team keeps winning.

Tony Carruthers was granted a yearlong reprieve after his planned execution was halted on Thursday, May 21.

In the latest incident, task force agents responded to a call at a Memphis-area residence Wednesday evening.

More than a month ago, Marion police sergeant Darrell Prewitt became the victim of a high-speed collision on I-40. These days, however, he’s back on two healthy legs.

Novel workers vote to unionize, an immigrants-rights group sues state troopers and Memphis names its first poet laureate.

Attendees gathered at Downtown’s Cossitt Library to honor the three finalists for the poet laureate role.

The suit challenges what it describes as an “increasingly commonplace” practice of THP troopers teaming up with federal immigration agents to stop Memphis and Nashville motorists in order to investigate their immigration status. 

Medical experts say use of out-of-date chemicals and drugs for lethal injections raises risk of prolonged and painful death.

With the completion of all levels of school campuses, Lakeland School System’s board concentrates growth in its $37.8 million budget on benefits for teachers and students.

Redistricting fight brings out the big guns, the ex-MATA CEO wants her job back and Novel workers may form a union.

At Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South, fifth- and sixth-grade students get to practice #adulting. 

Eric Gottlieb has been granted a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach and conduct research at the University of Primorska in Europe.

Hendricks is resigning about six months before the end of the term as his family will relocate. He was appointed to the GMSD board in 2025 to finish the term of Dr. Daniel Chatham.

Bacarra Mauldin is alleging “wrongful termination, unpaid wages and tortious interference,” according to the case docket in Shelby County Chancery Court.

The ACLU of Tennessee brings in outside attorneys to argue against new congressional map as another case gets reassigned and the NAACP calls for a boycott of college sports in eight states in reaction to redistricting.

The Robertson Family Aquatic Center opens with a promise of a place to cool down this summer and a mission to prevent drownings among youths. 

Memphis-Shelby County Schools changed its plan for all third graders to retake the statewide exam days before summer break. 

Arlington Community School board approves its budget for the coming fiscal year, while recognizing the work of Superintendent Allison Clark with a new four-year contract.

Longtime political reporter Bill Dries joins us today to talk about U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen’s legacy and how the three congressional races are shaping up. 

No Kings bodycam video is out, a Memphis voice remains on the education board and a 13-year-old is a barbecue champ.

The appointment leaves a vacancy in the 9th Congressional District seat on the State Board of Education, which has an increasingly large role to play in setting the standards for success at Tennessee schools.

A new proposal would require receipts for money spent and a 5-year ban on new grants if nonprofits don’t follow the rules. The commission also set the stage for budget hearings.

Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr. and Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris agreed earlier this month to settle Bonner’s lawsuit against Harris with a “confidential” deal for an $18 million amendment to the sheriff’s budget for the current fiscal year.