Shelby County News

A week after announcing a change in when Shelby County Schools teachers get paid in the schools merger that begins July 1, interim schools superintendent Dorsey Hopson changed course.

The administration for the unified Memphis and Shelby County school system announced Monday a solution to the issue of harmonizing what had been divergent payroll policies.

An intense manhunt is over after a man accused of shooting a woman and three children in Nashville winds up in Memphis.

Shelby County Commissioners should wrap up their action Monday, June 17, on the first budget for the consolidated school system with a final vote on the school system budget.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Officials in Memphis confirm the suspect in the shooting of a woman and her three daughters at the Brinkhaven Apartments in Madison has been booked into the Shelby County Jail.

One of the few positives about the imminent merger of Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools is the chance to take the best practices from both districts and meld them into one workable unit.

Minutes after the Boy Scouts of America announced its decision to not deny Scout membership based on sexual orientation or preference, debate erupted across the country.

Former Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt is the winner of the Keith Jackson Eternal Flame Award, an honor given annually by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

Nashville police were searching Friday night for a man they said shot his girlfriend and her three teenage daughters at an apartment complex and then fled the scene barefoot.

The above photo is of Ernest Moore , 39 years of age. According to Metro Police, he is the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of four people in Madison.

A woman who included a Bartlett police lieutenant in a text for Xanax, waived her preliminary hearing Friday morning and was held for the action of the Shelby County grand jury.

Interim Supt. Dorsey Hopson and Deputy Supt. David Stephens scheduled a meeting with the media for 2:30 p.m. Friday to answer questions about a payroll plan for Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools employees.

One will be appointed by President Obama to succeed U.S. District Judge Jon McCalla, who is taking senior status.

When the current series of the general educational development expires on January 1, all partial scores will be erased from the system, the cost of the test will rise from $65 to $120 and the paper option will be eliminated.

June 12, 2013 - Ramiyah Leann Drake, 3, creates a square with her hands to retired schoolteacher Betty Harris, not pictured, during pre-K registration at Southwind High School.

Cordova area residents have no legal authority to demand a referendum for de-annexing from the City of Memphis, the state attorney general said in an advisory opinion released Thursday.

The growing crop of teacher residency programs in Shelby County is being followed by residency programs for school system administrators and leaders outside the classroom.

If ever you find yourself bemoaning "so much to read, so little time," imagine having so much time and so little to read.

A Germantown man charged with second-degree murder in the April death of his estranged wife pleaded not guilty in Germantown Municipal Court Wednesday night and his case was sent to the Shelby County grand jury for consideration.

An investigation into a March incident that left an assistant Shelby County prosecutor hospitalized in critical condition has produced no suspects, authorities said Wednesday.