The Tennessee Supreme Court has briefly halted the pending demotions of more than 100 MPD second lieutenants. 

MSCS has offers for Elvis’ alma mater, county commissioners aren’t locked in on a new jail and a former Tiger is suspended for fighting.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools has offers to purchase Humes Middle School in North Memphis from public utility Memphis Light, Gas and Water and local dance studio New Ballet Ensemble and School. 

The Shelby County Commission has an amended plan to seek proposals on where and how to build a new jail. The detailed process was pushed Monday, Aug. 25, to a Sept. 3 committee meeting for more discussion.

On this episode of The AM/DM podcast, editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips talk about the week ahead, including Liza’s run returning, more conversations about a possible new jail, and colleges being back in class. 

Pierogies and opera hit the Memphis streets, where 100 fiberglass Tigers already prowl. 

Done in 2012 as a means to raise funds and awareness of the University of Memphis Alumni Association, the 100 fancifully painted tiger statues spread around the city have become part of our everyday lives.

Former acting U.S. Attorney Reagan Fondren is serving the public in a new way and from a new office. 

Shelby County is considering a public-private partnership to build a new jail at North Memphis’ former Firestone site. Here’s why. 

A month ago, it seemed as if the event was ending. But a group of women emerged to make certain that Memphians will once again be finishing Liza Fletcher’s run. 

Memphis football plays Chattanooga, U of M’s fall semester starts and an annual run honors Eliza Fletcher on the third anniversary of her death.

Major moves by the county toward a new jail are on hold, but County Commission votes could push it closer to more specific plans.

Green acknowledged that part of her campaign’s struggle is to convince Democrats that a Democrat can win in Republican-dominated state political landscape.

A set of 10 new homes near Zodiac Park in Whitehaven Hills is the latest milestone in the city’s affordable housing movement.

She spoke about her father, her mother and their legacies at the National Civil Rights Museum for a program called “Malcolm X at 100: A Conversation with Ilyasah Shabazz.”

As Porter-Leath works to enroll thousands more prekindergarten students, early-childhood education organization First 8 Memphis is continuing efforts toward free, quality classrooms for kids.

To comply with a new Tennessee law and federal efforts, the University of Memphis is eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the school, including the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

Holiday Inn at the University of Memphis closes for good, although the building will still be used for classes.

The dozens of students who had been in limbo will be allowed to enroll for the fall semester, which begins Monday, Aug. 25.

Trump calls into a Memphis radio station, TacoNGanas is everywhere and new Ja 3s dropped Thursday — but good luck finding them in your size.

The Memphis and Shelby County Sports Authority will be the conduit for public funds to flow to the Grizzlies during the planned $550 million in FedExForum renovations.

Trump also talked generally about possibly sending National Guard troops to Memphis to help battle crime although procedures for activating the Guard in states differ from the laws that allowed him to put troops on Washington, D.C. streets.

Hernandez Govan was acquitted of being behind the 2021 death of Young Dolph.

Sheriff Floyd Bonner’s lawsuit seeks $67 million in proposed funding for his office that he says was not included in the county’s $1.7 billion consolidated budget. 

MLGW has control issues, zoo elephants are finally getting room to roam and there’s more soul in Soulsville.