Shelby County teachers stage die-in outside county building
Shelby County teachers held die-in in front of the county building Monday to demand safe schools locally, statewide and nationally as the coronavirus pandemic grows.
Shelby County teachers held die-in in front of the county building Monday to demand safe schools locally, statewide and nationally as the coronavirus pandemic grows.
District officials are also looking for community partners to help parents unable to be home with their school children.
The melee at Golf and Games is the kind of thing that can happen when kids don't have enough structure and supervision. Now that Shelby County Schools has decided to start out all-virtual, what does that mean for the broader community?
Memphis Police were called to Golf & Games Family Park at 5484 Summer Ave. on Saturday after youths stampeded and vandalized the business. Large crowds led to the business closing early.
The child was 11, according to the Shelby County Health Department website, and was being treated for another condition at hospitals in Memphis.
A second group of limited-service restaurant owners whose places were closed by a Health Department coronavirus directive spent a day in court seeking to reopen. As was the case with the first group that appeared in court last week, no ruling was issued.
Taking a question about past criminal convictions off the county's job application involves a set of complex rules for hiring those with a criminal past. The new ordinance pushes the consideration to later in the hiring process.
Some parents protested the district’s new in-person option for five days per week. Others feel the district made a difficult call, but the right call.
The Board of Mayor approved rezoning a few acres of land once part of Forest Hill Elementary. The rezoning will move a water tower the city previously proposed on Forest Hill Elementary property.
Collierville's Board of Mayor and Aldermen declared an aldermanic vacancy Monday. The action was taken following the death of Tom Allen, who died last week.
Despite calls from a White House task force leader for Tennessee to take stronger steps to curb the coronavirus spread, Gov. Bill Lee reiterated he doesn't plan to close down the state economy again and resisted the call for a statewide mask mandate.
On Sunday, July 26, the overall positivity rate of coronavirus tests in Shelby County reached 10%.
Injury has pushed Kyle Anderson back into the Grizzlies' starting lineup. A strong weekend — and perhaps the healing hands of time — suggests reason for optimism.
Officials hope to process absentee voting applications the same day they arrive up to Thursday's deadline to apply. Meanwhile, in-person early voting continues through Saturday, Aug. 1, at 26 locations. Election day is Aug. 6.
One of John Stuart Mill's arguments in “On Liberty” is often reduced to this sentence: Your freedom ends where my nose begins. Never has that way of putting it seemed more literal, noses being the coronavirus’s main point of entry into our bodies.
An attorney is looking into the deaths of three Shelby County Jail inmates who died within days of one another.
The decisions mean only Republican primary on the May county ballot is contested. Another Republican claims another County Commission seat. And the busiest primary on the ballot remains the Democratic primary for County Clerk.
East Memphis is getting a new gas station and maybe an ICE office, and a million-dollar discount deal is available at a Downtown restaurant site.
In 2025, a settlement allowed athletic departments to begin distributing up to $20.5 million of revenue to their athletes. According to the University of Memphis, the Tigers have “fully implemented” the settlement and have signed 394 NIL contracts.
A trip to Chickasaw Oaks’ La Baguette is like a quick visit to Paris — almost.
The hearing will determine if the 32-year-old man, accused of killing a Campbell Clinic doctor more than two years ago, is competent to stand trial or enter a plea.
A grant fund named in honor of Luke White will be announced on Friday during a special event at B-Side Memphis.
“Supporting local charities and advocating for legislative reform are reasonable paths forward; interfering with active law enforcement is not.”
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has required its first-year med students to do an anatomy lab since 1911. To do so, the school relies on living donors who give their bodies to science.
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