 | Boys & Girls Club Excited about 'Memphis Gun Down' Program
The Boys and Girls Club of Memphis has been battling youth gun crime for decades. They are excited about the city's new plan, saying if everybody pulls together maybe they can make a difference.  Watch Video
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 | New Bills Introduced to Allow Municipal Schools
Shelby County Republican legislators have filed bills which they say will clear the way for municipal schools.
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 | County Commissioners Balk at School Funding Request
Everybody knew the merged schools would need money, but not this much. The message from some Shelby County Commissioners is simple. Remember what the Rolling Stones said: "You can't always get what you want." Watch Video
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 | Commissioner Proposes Public Vote on Residency Requirements
A Shelby County Commissioner says you folks have the right to decide whether county employees should be forced to live in Shelby County. It's the law, but Commissioner Terry Roland says it's not a very good law, and thinks it should be changed. Watch Video
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 | Mayor Luttrell Says Taxpayers Can Expect Increase
Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell is warning homeowners again: brace for an increase in Shelby County property taxes. The Unified School District's $90 million deficit is to blame. Watch Video
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 | Teachers Given 5 Years to Move to County after Merger
Teachers for Memphis City Schools who live outside of Shelby County need to find a good real estate agent. They're soon going to have to move to Shelby County. Watch Video
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 | Memphis Council Battles Park Names as State Bill Looms
Tuesday was a contentious day at Memphis City Hall, all because of a park that's been named after Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest for more than a hundred years. Watch Video
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 | Governor Wants to Close State Office Building in Memphis
Downtown Memphis might soon get another kick in its economic gut, and the boot belongs to Governor Bill Haslam. Watch Video
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 | Memphis Mayor 'Hurt' by Pinnacle Airlines Leaving Memphis
Bad news is basically illegal in any State of the City Address from Memphis Mayor A C Wharton. For example, the mayor never said a word about Pinnacle Airlines moving out of Memphis, or the city losing five hundred jobs. Watch Video
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 | Countywide Sales Tax Hike Back for Consideration
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton says he blew it. When it came to explaining a proposed half percent countywide sales tax increase, he admits people didn't understand where the money would go. Voters overwhelmingly shot it down; now the city wants to bring up the issue... Again. Watch Video
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 | Park Renaming Delayed after Heated Council Debate
The battle over renaming a Memphis park dedicated to a founding member of the Ku Klux Klan caused a war of words at Memphis City Council Tuesday. Watch Video
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 | Bass Pro Store Making Progress at the Pyramid
Don't let the naysayers get you down. Huge progress is happening in the Bass Pro Superstore at the Pyramid. Watch Video
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 | Councilman Lowery Proposes Renaming Forrest Park
Memphis City Councilman Myron Lowery wants to rename Forrest Park. Nathan Forrest, a Confederate general, is buried at the park, and many in Memphis say the name should be changed because Forrest was a founder of the Ku Klux Klan. Lowery's idea is to name the park after Forrest and famous civil rights journalist Ida B. Wells. Watch Video
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 | Charter School Praised at Open House amid Parent Complaints
A Binghampton charter school, which has angered parents and residents of the neighborhood, is promising better things. Watch Video
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 | State to Take Over Vehicle Inspections in Shelby County
The State of Tennessee will take over all emissions tests for cars in June after the City of Memphis got out of the business last year. So, that means everybody in Shelby County gets tested and we all get to pay ten bucks for the privilege. Watch Video
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 | New Memphis Convention Center Could Cost $600M
Mayor A C Wharton says Memphis will need a new convention center to keep lucrative conventions in city. The cost of a new center will be twice the cost of the FedExForum. Watch Video
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 | City Council Blames Mayor Wharton for Blue Crush Cuts
City Council members say they didn't do it, but Memphis Mayor A C Wharton cut the Police Department budget and now there's no money for Blue Crush projects. Watch Video
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 | DA Working on Tougher Penalties for Gun Crimes
The Shelby County District Attorney is fed up with thugs packing heat in Memphis. Amy Weirich and Memphis Mayor A C Wharton want to make the penalties for gun crimes some of the toughest in the country. The plan isn't finished, but when it is Weirich says it will be one with teeth. Watch Video
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 | Mayor Luttrell to Unified School Board: Step On It!
Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell says the Unified School Board is moving at snails pace and needs to get a proposed budget to him in a few weeks. Watch Video
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| Educational Bumbles and Stumbles for 2012
2012 was a year people tried to raise taxes for education in Shelby County, then tried to figure out how to get everything done before the August 2013 school merger. Watch Video
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 | Unified School District Funding Re-Examined after Sales Tax Voted Down
Voters in Memphis and the unincorporated areas of Shelby County sent a message on election night. Even if the money goes to education, no sales tax increase. Watch Video
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 | Surviving Victim of Serial Killer Still Suffering from Shooting
The shootings shook the foundation of Memphis. Gwendolyn Cherry, murdered. Memphis Police Lieutenant Ed Vidulich, murdered. Herbert Wooten, murdered, his wife shot. Barbara Wooten has since been in a wheelchair, fighting infections and other illness.
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 | A Tumultuous Year for the Memphis Police Department
2012 has been a difficult year for the Memphis Police Department. An officer killed in the line of duty two weeks ago. Nearly two dozen officers are charged with crimes including rape and DUI. And there's an ongoing pay and benefits dispute with City Hall. Watch Video
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 | Vehicle Inspections May Become Mandatory Countywide
The City of Memphis is dumping its auto inspections on Shelby County, starting next June. County officials are still trying to figure out what to do, but it may mean every car and truck owner in all of Shelby County will end up in an inspection line.
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 | Shelby Co. Wants State to Kick In More School Funding
Commissioners will ask Tennessee legislators to give two percent more for state education mandates. Watch Video
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 | Municipalities Seek Compromise with Unified School District
Bartlett Mayor Keith McDonald has been fighting for suburban schools for months and months. He’s aware that right now it’s a dead issue, but he still has hope. Watch Video
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 | Commissioner Roland Seeks Action on Redacted Legal Bills
A Shelby County Commissioner is red hot about the county's legal bills in the school consolidation fight. Commissioner Terry Roland says records show more than one million taxpayer dollars have been spent so far, but those bills don't explain how half the money was spent. Watch Video
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| Group Challenging Open Records Laws on MPD-Related Deaths
The Black Autonomy Federation picketed Memphis city hall Monday, saying police have killed 10 people this year, and they want the public records related to each event. Watch Video
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| Consultants Hired to Evaluate Memphis Police Department
The city has hired three consultants: two retired Memphis Police Officers, and Reverend Keith Norman, the former head of the Shelby County Democratic Party. They will look over policies. Their goal is to keep the good cops good, and to try and determine what programs work and what need to be replaced.
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 | Supreme Court Sides with Memphis on Last Day of Early Voting
The polls were mobbed. The last day of early voting brought folks out from all over Memphis. Every one of them had to provide a legal form of identification such as a driver’s license, a state identification car, or a Memphis Library Photo ID card.
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 | Garage Construction a Sign of Overton Square Revitalization
There are new signs of life at Overton Square. Memphis City Councilman Jim Strickland says flooding in the area will soon be a thing of the past thanks to an 18-million dollar parking garage now under construction. It's all part of the rebirth of the midtown entertainment district. Watch Video
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 | Despite Failing in County, Memphis Pushing Sales Tax Issue to City Voters
In Memphis, if at first you don’t succeed, then tax, tax again.
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| Mayor Wharton to Announce Police Oversight Committee
With another Memphis police officer in trouble with the law, now Mayor A C Wharton says he's finally got a plan to deal with bad cops. Watch Video
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 | Commission Chairman At Odds with Mayors over International Paper
Shelby County Commission Chairman Mike Ritz says both Memphis Mayor A C Wharton and Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell offered IP thirty more years of reduced taxes under the PILOT program. He doesn’t like the idea, and intends to fight it. Watch Video
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| Constitutionality Ruling Anticipated on Municipal School Districts
A federal judge could rule on the legality of starting suburban school systems as early as Tuesday. Judge Samuel Mayes has been working on the case since October, and has told many he hopes to have a ruling in place before he goes on vacation. Watch Video
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 | Shelby County Election Officials Ready for Election Day
The word from the Secretary of State and the Tennessee elections boss is, things better go virtually mistake free in Shelby County, or some Shelby County elections folks will be looking for new jobs.
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 | One Year Later, Shelby County Adult Club Ban Still Successful
Topless bars in Shelby County have been against the law for about a year. Not a problem, and no complaints so far, the county says. Watch Video
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| MPD Consultants Look to Weed Out Bad Cops
The consultants hired to examine the troubled Memphis Police Department are now hard at work. Watch Video
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 | Art Student to Marry Cardboard "Twilight" Character for Thesis Project
There is nothing quite like true love. It often leads to marriage. Lauren Adkins of Shelby County plans on taking the big leap next month in Las Vegas; she is marrying a cardboard cutout of the character Edward Cullen, the vampire in the "Twilight" saga movies. Watch Video
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 | Councilman Works to Help Protect Tow Truck Drivers
Recent violence against tow truck drivers in Memphis is getting attention from city hall. Memphis City Councilman Lee Harris says he will be pushing to work out a plan with police to give tow truck drivers more protection, especially in high crime areas. Watch Video
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 | Tow Truck Driver Paralyzed after Shooting
A tow truck driver talks for the first time about the night he was wounded and left paralyzed after he was shot while working in Memphis. Watch Video
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| Big Changes in Auto Inspections Coming to Shelby County
Next week, Mayor Mark Luttrell will announce a recommendation for how County should do auto inspections starting next June. All county residents will probably have to get emissions tests. Watch Video
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| More Bullets Fly in Crime-Ridden Memphis Neighborhood
People who live in a North Memphis neighborhood say they live with the fear of becoming a victim of crime. If you can call it living, that is. Watch Video
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| Memphis Police Union Wary of More City Budget Cuts Ahead
Two groups that don't really like each other are about to go at it again, and it could get ugly. Memphis Mayor A C Wharton's administration is working on ways to cut budget costs next year. One of the options is charging city workers, including police officers, more for benefits. Watch Video
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 | Lawyer for 'Big-Bellied Rapist' Laying Groundwork for New Trial
He confessed to attacks in Martin, Tennessee and Shelby County in 2009. Bruce Tuck has a nickname, the Big Bellied Rapist. He is a lot slimmer now, and his lawyer hopes his days in the slammer might be slimmer as well. Watch Video
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 | Despite Ruling, Supporters Confident Municipal Schools Will Happen
“Municipalities are going to get their own school system,” says Shelby County Commissioner Chris Thomas. “It’s just a matter of when.” Watch Video
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 | City Demolishing Historic W.C. Handy Theater
One of the most historic theaters in Memphis will soon become nothing but a pile of dust and memories. Watch Video
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 | State Lawmakers Protest Plans to Close City Schools
A group of Shelby County state legislators is fighting mad over plans to close 21 city schools. The group, made up of all Democrats from Memphis, say the plans are flawed, and they want everything to slow down until people and students have their say. Meanwhile, the city and county school districts are scheduled to merge in a little less than nine months. Watch Video
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 | Task Force Formed to Monitor Shelby County Elections
The U.S. Justice Department will be watching, and so will the NAACP. The whole thing boils down to making sure the voter feels secure that his or her vote will count.
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 | Ritz Defends Redacted Legal Bills in Schools Battle
The Shelby County Commission showdown between Commissioners Mike Ritz and Terry Roland is heating up. Ritz is chairman of the group, and admits legal bills in the municipal schools case are being paid by taxpayer dollars while the explanations for the bill are being kept from several commission members. Roland is hot, saying as a commissioner he has a right to know, and as taxpayers you have a right to know how more than half a million of your dollars have been spent. Watch Video
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