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.

Shelby County Commissioners also vote on $300,000 in funding to a workforce development program that fired its director last week and discuss changes to the 6% pay raise for county employees approved in the previous budget season.

Moderator Michael LaRosa’s latest book, cowritten with a Memphis attorney, will be released the same day.

As of last year, the University of Memphis’ dual-enrollment program is the largest in the state, serving nearly 3,000 teens in 60 schools in Shelby County.

After years of problems with the posting of election returns on its website, the Shelby County Election Commission has switched to a new system that also features precinct-by-precinct results and maps.

With 40 staff members, the Center for Earthquake Research and Information at the University of Memphis monitors seismic activity primarily along the New Madrid fault zone that runs 150 miles from Illinois down to West Tennessee.

Historical trends, including El Niño and La Niña, can help predict what might occur in Memphis during the upcoming winter season.

Several local officials are backing a new state law that will allow judges and judicial commissioners access to at least some juvenile court records in setting bail.

The claims add a new twist to the $550 million civil rights lawsuit that Tyre Nichols’ mother, RowVaughn Wells, and his estate have filed against the City of Memphis following Nichols’ 2023 beating and death at the hands of five now-former Memphis Police Department officers. 

The Memphis Police Department is hosting a new local TV show to showcase its efforts in curbing crime in the city.

Leaders of the three separate initiatives joined Eric Barnes to talk about their programs this week on the WKNO-TV’s “Behind The Headlines.”

Ezekiel Kelly faces dozens of charges for allegedly killing three people and injuring three others on Sept. 7, 2022 while Memphis was on lockdown.

All three defendants are also asking the court to be tried separately from one another.

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Mauck slaying case heads to grand jury, a Downtown theater fences off foot traffic and a Memphis chef is on fire.

A car accident crushed three vertebrae in Emily Hamilton’s spine one year ago. Doctors said she would never touch her toes again. She’s now an instructor at Sana Yoga in East Memphis.

“No matter what happens with respect to the Trump administration, the city and county are prepared to make this office sustainable and continue the commitments,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said of the question of continued federal support in the Trump administration.

Casts created in hollowed-out spaces of volcanic ash and other artifacts from the frozen city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., are on display at Graceland starting this week. 

Due to security concerns, Malco began installing 6-foot, black aluminum poles around the property in July. Zoning officials issued a stop work order, halting the project. 

The Shelby County Election Commission decided Thursday that a Collierville runoff will be held Dec. 10 to fill the office held by Alderman John Worley.

At a Thursday, Nov. 14, hearing in Collierville, Lydia McGuinn, a clinic manager for at the time of the shooting, spoke on the stand. 

Lee called it “a great idea” to dismantle the agency, which was created under a 1979 federal law during President Jimmy Carter’s administration.

Swankys leaves Germantown, gun-rights groups sue Memphis and "Disneyland” is coming to Fayette County. 

Marine biologist James McClintock and Rev. John Burruss will share insights from Antarctica in a free lecture today at Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.