Lt. Gov. McNally’s two Shelby County appointees will join five others selected last week by Gov. Bill Lee. House Speaker Cameron Sexton has yet to announce his appointments to the nine-member oversight board, which will have sweeping powers over Memphis-Shelby County Schools.
With Memorial Day now behind us, you might think we’ve started summer. But not yet.
A Midtown church is tearing down buildings, a Memphis kid stars in a new movie and we look back at what brought the U of M law school Downtown.
The U of M’s law school used to be located in a run-down building with unreliable air conditioning and a flooding problem. Now, it’s Downtown home is “a huge selling point.” Here’s how the move came to be.
At its Tuesday, May 26 session, the City Council will also take up a hotel surcharge for the Hyatt Centric at Beale Street and Riverside Drive, along with a name change for part of Alston Avenue.
Memorial Day signals the beginning of summer.
MPD said the officer had just received a suspicious vehicle call.
For row after row, many of the headstones bear no name. Related content:
“It’s just been amazing what we’ve done with just our sheer talent, just wanting to write and be heard,” Bria Saulsberry said.
There are now a total of four lawsuits against Tennessee’s new congressional map. Here is a breakdown of where each case stands as the August primaries rapidly approach.
“This lifestyle is about living in the moment,” Amy Pearson said. “You don’t have to have a big house to have a big life.”
A 13-year-old referendum is sparking a budget battle in some Memphis suburbs as school boards see flat funding despite higher property values. However, government officials say they can freeze the funding due to other ways they contribute.
The political roundup looks at a shift in the fight over Congressional redistricting and what it says about the tactics of both parties in the state of Tennessee.
Also happening this week: A new coffee shop opens on South Main, and The Lobbyist reopens its patio.
CBS Radio News ends broadcasting Friday, May 22, after nearly a century airing on hundreds of radio stations across the country. The end is another change in a way of reporting that is becoming harder to find and define.
Farmington Elementary student Josh Verma hopes to be the fourth Memphis-area student to win the whole thing.
Just in time for summer break, Memphis River Parks Partnership and Literacy Mid-South officially unveiled the city’s first free public storybook trail.
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.
The second-place finisher in one of the MSCS board Democratic primaries — the closest race in the May 5 county primaries — is reportedly weighing a recount.
A judge filed a legal memo a week after his May 14 decision to deny a motion for a temporary pause in implementing the state’s new congressional map.
A Chancery Court in Nashville heard arguments Thursday on a request for a temporary injunction in relation to Tennessee’s new congressional map.
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.