State Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey says lax management is apparent across Shelby County Health Department.

Donors send food and water to LeMoyne-Owen College after freezing temperatures and water system issues in the city.

Principal Barton Thorne called it “shocking and disappointing” to be removed for speaking to students about the First Amendment.

Austin Peay Station is part of the new $45 million Raleigh Springs Civic Center development at the former Raleigh Springs Mall site on Austin Peay Highway. The station serves as both a traffic and police precinct.

LeMoyne-Owen College is helping the Shelby County Health Department better plan and execute coronavirus care.

The applicants argued unsuccessfully to the Board of Adjustment that their flexible-loan business is not as financially punishing to customers as payday or title loan shops.

There’s a new end of the line for the Memphis Area Transit Authority’s Main Street trolley service.

Michigan-based Gordon Food Service — which caters both to restaurants and the food-service industry as well as the general public — has stores in Nashville and Knoxville but none yet in Memphis. 

The Vollintine-Evergreen Community Association is appealing a decision to allow what it calls a “smoke shop” to open next to Dino’s Grill and near Snowden School. While renovations have been made, the business has not yet opened.

Whitehaven’s vaccination site saw an overwhelming response over the weekend. 

The second Unity Walk Against Gun Violence is set for Feb. 27 in Whitehaven. 

People whose appointments were canceled will receive emails to confirm rescheduled times.

As the new board president, Andre Gibson plans to help the Greater Whitehaven Economic Redevelopment Corp. bring more economic development to Whitehaven.

The interim president of the Downtown Memphis Commission addressed “the big thing out there,” the proposed purchase by the Downtown Mobility Authority of the empty 100 North Main office tower, parking and adjacent properties. Ray Brown called 100 North Main “an enormous source of blight.”

The Highland Heights Community Development Corp. will award $1,000 for the best concept to reuse the old church buildings anchoring a corner of Summer at Highland.

The restaurant is leasing 6,500 square feet from the shopping center near the southeast corner of Poplar and Interstate 240.

View the gallery to see how Mid-Southerners experienced the more than 4 inches of snow.

The Raleigh vaccination site will open next week at Greater Imani Cathedral of Faith.

The Land Use Control Board also approved a transitional group home in Binghampton for veterans, an attached-townhouse development on Brookhaven Circle, and plans for a used-car lot in Raleigh. The board rejected plans a 35-lot subdivision of container homes in New Chicago.

Suga Mama SnoBalls is opening a second location in Southeast Memphis next month.

Opponents of the proposed pipeline believe local governments can stop the project and nine property owners are still refusing to give Plains All American access to their land. 

Each college will receive $1 million, with a portion going towards students, faculty and staff impacted by COVID-19.

The letter to pastors and congregations from seven council members points to a racial disparity in the virus and death rates from the virus as well as testing that is now surfacing in vaccination numbers for the county. 

The nonprofit organization Arrow Creative will lease 23,000 square feet at 653 Philadelphia, on the northern edge of the Cooper-Young neighborhood.

The Shelby County Health Department partnered with Southwest Tennessee Community College to begin administering first doses of the Pfizer vaccine Friday at the school’s Whitehaven center at 1234 Finley Road.