Downtown could get a “hamburger tax,” a new center for paralyzed vets is coming to Beale and we tell you why all those ladybugs were in your house early this week.

Amy Eoff will end her time on the Germantown Board of Education this week. She was elected in 2016 and reelected in 2020.

The first three weeks of November continued an October trend of warmer than normal conditions. That streak breaks with this forecast.

An employee of the Rankin County Detention Center confirmed Zimmerman was booked into the facility earlier Wednesday but could not provide further information.

District officials said the money is needed to keep the project on track as it recalculates next steps for the stalled Cordova high school.

This has been the second attempt to remove the Shelby County clerk. 

Mayor Paul Young hears of concerns regarding a road infrastructure project, as well as blight and crime, during his final One Memphis event of the year.

The City of Memphis is eyeing a single-item tax on food and other items sold Downtown to fund the district’s security, beautification and assistance for the area’s unhoused population. 

The Grizzlies may be out of the NBA Cup, a church needs a few tater toters and Glicked is coming. 

Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy announced the decision to appeal two decisions by a lower court judge to release multiple-shooting suspects without bond in recent weeks.

The new sentence includes no prison time. Robinson received a sentence of time served in 2022. Instead, U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman imposed a fine of $48,600. 

A teenager is facing an attempted murder charge after allegedly shooting another student at Central High School on Monday, Nov. 18.

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Nichols’ family attorneys say the city is poisoning the jury, a Germantown school board member resigns and Sam’s Deli has served its last muffuletta.

The annual celebration of Whitehaven continues this week culminating with the community’s Christmas Parade on Saturday. 

Memphis police officers found a male victim in a parking lot behind Central High and transported him to Regional One Health in critical condition.

Questions delay the hearing for the Midtown recovery home opposed by neighbors and allegedly in violation zoning rules.

Valerie Smith and James Newsom are among the three finalists to be considered by Gov. Bill Lee for a vacancy on the Tennessee Court of Appeals.

Attorneys for RowVaughn Wells, Tyre Nichols’ mother, said that the city “misused” the court docket and is attempting “to poison the jury pool” in a case set for trial next year.

Daniel Chatham was elected in 2022. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen is responsible for appointing an individual to finish the unexpired term.

Some locals aren’t down for the demo of an iconic East Memphis building, Regional One Health puts pregnancy care on wheels and a Germantown designer leaves his mark on the holidays.

“We’ve got to face the reality,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said. “The (Cordova) project may not be dead permanently, but it’s suffered a pretty big death blow.”

She was arrested numerous times for participating in sit-ins, starting in March 1960 when she and others demanded access to library books.

It is unclear whether MPD Interim Chief C.J. Davis has the council votes to become the full-time chief again, but she appears to have gained at least one vote since January.

This week’s jigsaw puzzle features a photo from freelance photojournalist Brad Vest taken for The Daily Memphian at John Mark Enterprises in Germantown. 

Also happening this week: The Shelby County Commission returns to a pay-raise request for the Circuit Court Clerk’s office, and the Grizzlies kick off the Emirates NBA Cup tournament.