Shelby County News

The owners of Club 152 on Beale Street and prosecutors with the Shelby County District Attorney General's office have been talking since the club was shut down a week ago as a public nuisance.

As of May 22, 2013 the Shelby County Sheriff's Office is looking for individuals who are wanted on a variety of charges.

On his way this week to hearing and later deciding the case of a disputed election for a countywide school board seat, Chancellor Kenny Armstrong got a feel for the complexities voters faced in the 2012 election and beyond.

In this tornado-shattered city, where surreal sights of devastation abound, another unusual scene unfolded midmorning Wednesday as a procession of as many as 2,000 volunteers filed down a street toward the Moore Cemetery, a 20-acre resting ground that accommodates the city's earliest leaders and soon will receive some of its recent storm victims.

As three of Shelby County's six suburban towns and cities locked in July 16 referendums on forming municipal school districts, there were indications of renewed discussions between the suburban leaders and Shelby County Commissioners on the terms of forming those districts.

The killer of a Memphis police officer who's gone on trial three times will soon be a free man.

The owner of the automobile service garage at 615 W. Poplar Ave . in Collierville has filed a $418,000 loan on the property.

Officials are on the scene of a two vehicle crash on Interstate 40 eastbound and Austin Peay Highway.

The Director of the Shelby County Office of Preparedness is asking that residents register their storm shelters so emergency crews know where to look if homes collapse.

To some it's a calculation with no binding effect on what is to come. To others on the Shelby County Commission it is an indication that a county property tax increase is about to be railroaded through.

Memphis City Council member Lee Harris will propose Tuesday, May 21, exempting Memphis auto owners for two years from required auto emissions inspections.

I asked Dr. Richard Janikowski whether crime in Memphis is concentrated or pervasive.

For the Unified School System, which starts August 1, Wednesday is a critical day.

A Brookings Institute study, which analyzed data from the most recent U.S. Census Survey, found the country's suburban poor population grew 64 percent from 2000-2011, significantly outpacing increases in rural poverty, as well.

The Shelby County Commission on Monday approved a $1.7 million, 5-year contract with American Medical Response to provide ambulance service for unincorporated Shelby County, Arlington, Lakeland and Millington.

Sponsored by the Memphis and Shelby County emergency management agency, TNTF-1 is scheduled for deployment Monday night.

There were no campaign stickers or push cards at the Shelby County Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day dinner, but still plenty of hand-to-hand campaigning Friday, May 17, among the crowd of 350 at the University of Memphis Holiday Inn.

Collierville Police Department Detective Jonathan Watts is pictured with CPD Chief Larry Goodwin and Memphis/Shelby County Optimist Club Respect for Law Committee member Donne Walden after being named the Committee's Officer of the Year for Collierville last Wednesday.

"I'm trying to do the right thing," said Greg Brooks, owner of All Season's Restorations.

He's made his bed, and he has to lie in it. It is just that his bed is his Buick.