Millington police officer Bryan Childress fired after an investigation revealed he was filing false timesheets, pocketing nearly $3,000 by doing so.

Incumbent Alderman Jeremy Biggs won his third term in Position 6 on the Arlington Board of Mayor and Aldermen in town’s only contested race Thursday, Aug. 6.

Germantown’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen will interview three people for the short-term vacancy in the suburb's school board’s Position 2 seat.

Since Memphis-Shelby County School has closed Lucy Elementary a year ahead of schedule, Millington has started the process of transforming the oldest active elementary school in Shelby County.

When the suburban school districts started classes in 2014, it was a huge shift in local education. Now the districts are preparing to graduate students who began at their schools as kindergartners. 

Olive Branch leaders pushed off a final vote on rezoning an area of the city to allow for a controversial industrial park and expand the county landfill.

The second and final phase of the the Arlington Tennis Center expansion is set to begin, adding more sourts and parking.

Lynn Fitch became the state’s first female attorney general when she took office in 2020.

DeSoto County Supervisor Robert Foster took the stand Monday in his lawsuit against the state of Mississippi. But who lives in the judicial district he is suing over? 

Bartlett Alderman David Reaves has resurrected the idea of a new county with the suburbs splitting from Shelby to create their own county or joining adjacent ones.

While there are six races on the Arlington municipal ballot this week, only one is contested with incumbent Jeremy Biggs facing the challenge of Don Hinkle for the Position 6 alderman’s seat.

Jeff Munier will remain on the Collierville High faculty as a teacher, but will no longer serve as coach.

Saturday is the last day to vote early in advance of the Aug. 6 Election Day. Here are some numbers about where turnout appears to be going locally and statewide.

The first day of a hearing that could impact the election of two new judges in DeSoto County began Friday, July 31.

The CEO of an Ohio-based industrial contractor said SpaceXAI still owes his company about 40% of its roughly $1.5 billion total bill.

“While the rising cost of sanitation collection in Germantown should be expected, the increase should translate to more attentive service.”

SpaceXAI said Thursday, July 30, that it and the State of Mississippi had entered an agreement for winding down some of the company’s sprawling power plant operations in Southaven. 

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The company’s sprawling campus stretches across the Tennessee-Mississippi state line and includes three data centers.

Although one election is a week away, voters in five of the Memphis suburbs will be choosing their leaders in November.

One of the applicants is a retired GMSD employee running unopposed for the position in August and November.

Elon Musk appeared to acknowledge that the company had built a new data center, known as “Minihard.” 

Memphis Escape Rooms is expanding its footprint, opening a location in Bartlett.

Questions remain about two high-profile — and related — Bartlett projects. 

Despite about a year left on its lease at Schilling Farms, Cheffie’s will close in Collierville. 

Mississippi’s top lawmakers have named their picks to the state’s joint committee that will help decide the future of its voting maps.