Shelby County News

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.

When schools across Shelby County open on Aug. 5, the consolidation of the city and county public school systems will remain a work in progress.

A pedestrian who was arguing with a van driver Friday morning was hit and killed in Arlington by another driver who did not see him standing in the street, according to the Shelby County Sheriff's office.

Latino Memphis is hosting an immigration reform round-table discussion Monday. It is a topic that has fired up a national debate.

But when something goes awry, as it did in Memphis Wednesday night, people are left to wonder if maybe hip-hop group Public Enemy got it right all those years ago when they released the incendiary "911 Is a Joke." Starting between 3 and 4 p.m. Wednesday and continuing until just after 8 p.m. that night, the local 911 system was flooded with ... (more)

"Do I think 152's a nuisance? No, I do not. I personally do not," said Miss Polly's owner and Beale Street Merchants Association president Ty Agee.

Students and alumni of George Washington Carver High School in South Memphis have been vocal in opposing the plan to close the school and merge it with Booker T. Washington High.

Summer is almost here and if you are looking for an affordable vacation, look no further than the Mid-South. The Memphis Area Association of Governments came up with a clever campaign to promote West Tennessee.

Club 152 on Beale Street was shut down by the District Attorney's office Thursday afternoon, after an undercover operation revealed illicit drug sales by club employees.

Memphis Area Neighborhood Watch went out of business in 2002, but neighbors in the Old Hickory Hills neighborhood still watch out for each other.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has affirmed the conviction of a man serving a life sentence for the 2006 first degree premeditated murder of his girlfriend.

May 15, 2013 - A no dumping sign is nailed into a tree by the driveway that leads to a massive illegal dump located on the 3400 block of Dillard Road in the Springhill neighborhood in Raleigh.

Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell already said he needs to raise taxes by 30 cents just to generate the same amount of money they got last year.

It's not your typical backyard. The Shelby County District Attorney just declared a family property in Frayser a nuisance.