The vote followed widespread community outcry about the turbines’ impact on the quality of life for neighbors and residents. 

Regional One gets the green light, the Tigers women’s basketball coach is out and coffee industry pros spill the beans. 

Before this weekend, Ja Morant, the Memphis Grizzlies star point guard, hadn’t spoken to the media since January.

A bill sponsored by two local lawmakers would add situations where an adult coerced a minor into committing a crime to the list of reasons a sentence might be enhanced.

The Shelby County Commission returns to 13 members after the body named its newest member to serve the six months remaining in the term of Edmund Ford Jr.

The officer resigned after about five years of service to Collierville. This came after an internal investigation due to domestic assault charges in Fayette County.

Mississippi is rushing plans to make xAI’s request for permanent natural gas turbines in Southaven, according to the NAACP.

Gov. Bill Lee has declined federal funding to help feed low-income students over the summer. A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to change that.

XAI tax revenue could double, Ja Morant finally talks and we look into the world of model-train hobbyists.

This week begins with a flurry of government activity. 

How are candidates booted from primary ballots? Also in the political roundup, heads butt on the Memphis Safe Task Force, where Lee Harris and Edmund Ford Jr. agreed and recent D.C. votes on Iran air strikes.

The closures prompted questions. What would happen to students, staff and the buildings themselves? Can more closures could happen in the future, and could charter schools could be among schools on the chopping block. Let’s get into it.

While neither has kids in the district, they’ve been involved for many years.

Altruria Elementary is showing the wear-and-tear of its age leading Bartlett City Schools to plan a new school building behind the existing structure.

Every Saturday, local model railroaders meet to socialize, operate trains and work on their layouts in a warehouse-sized space.

Also happening this week: Germantown leaders consider a TIF, and there are deadlines for elected office, a Downtown restaurant contest and school-choice transfers.

A group of 10 applied for the six-month appointment to Edmund Ford Jr.’s former seat. One withdrew and another was a no-show for interviews last week. Here is who’s left.

It was a busy week for state politics, with lots of updates on immigration and bills concerning pharmacy ownership and bail reform.

Take a wild ride down memory lane with former Lakeland Mayor Mike Cunningham and his brother, Bill, and who share a fondness for old times at the fairgrounds and Libertyland.

When Cortney Richardson was a sophomore in high school, he started working with a fledgling nonprofit, Peer Power, as a tutor. Now he’s running the organization. 

When Shelby County commissioners began their budget retreat, the outlook for tough financial decisions in the upcoming budget season was as gloomy as the persistent rain and overcast skies outside the Memphis Zoo’s Teton Trek lodge.

In the past year, xAI has built out a second Memphis data center campus in Memphis’ Whitehaven neighborhood.

Students from across the Mid-South participated in an annual welding competition as a step towards mastering their craft.

The Memphis Safe Task Force was among the topics discussed in a Behind The Headlines reporters roundtable. 

“We can take inspiration and hope from Lynda Lowery’s example. Every day, we see young people realize they have a voice and start to use it. As adults, we should be called to do the same.”