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The actions ended a week in which all six Shelby County suburbs approved ordinances for referendums on the same date.

Two people were stabbed in a Tipton County home Monday night, and investigators are still trying to determine what happened.

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.

Three Shelby County suburbs will consider separate ordinances on final readings Monday for July 16 referendums to establish municipal schools in the respective cities.

A 35-year-old man who told jurors in November that he'd been in trouble since he was 9 was sentenced to 76 years in prison Friday for felony convictions stemming from a 2006 crime spree that involved three carjackings at gunpoint and several assaults on federal officers.

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The new total came Tuesday, May 14, after interim schools superintendent Dorsey Hopson told countywide school board members he and his staff had eliminated a "district initiative department" that would have cost $737,366. The changes reflect a still fluid budget proposal that the countywide board votes on Thursday, May 16, and submits to the Shelby ... (more)

In our May 2013 issue, I tell the rather amazing story of the March 15, 1963, crash of a military transport into a residential neighborhood in Millington.

MILLINGTON, Tenn. -- The Drug Education For Youth program, geared toward keeping kids drug free and teaching them various life skills, begins this summer Navy leaders said, May 7. The Drug Education For Youth program is a year-long, two-phased substance abuse prevention and comprehensive life skills program designed for 9-12 year olds.

Legislative bodies in five of Shelby County's six suburbs began the process Monday evening of setting July 16 referendums for voters to decide on municipal schools in their cities.

Navy honor guard members carry a casket containing the remains of four Vietnam-era sailors whose missing remains had been recovered and identified after extensive searches that spanned several decades.

Fame and fortune doesn't mean you can get out of paying your tax bill. The owners of Mirimichi Golf Course, which includes Justin Timberlake, owed a quarter of a million dollars in delinquent property taxes.

An ad hoc committee is proposing a newly created Shelby County Fire Department that will include Arlington, Lakeland, Millington and the unincorporated areas of Shelby County in a new fire district.

Gov. Bill Haslam on Monday signed into law the second of the two municipal school district bills - this one removing the limits on the number of school systems permitted in a county.

A home caught fire early Monday morning and spread to the next-door house, ultimately causing three local fire departments to respond to the blaze, officials said.

Shelby County commissioners are shooting straight from the hip about gun rights.