In issuing a preliminary injunction, Judge Carlton Reeves said the law “threatens immediate harm to women’s rights, especially considering most women do not seek abortions services until after six weeks.”
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said he believes the city council will face a tough challenge in the coming days trying to balance a now-unbalanced budget.
The Shelby County Election Commission faced county commissioners Wednesday, amid concerns County Mayor Lee Harris is asking to hold funding for new machines.
The Clarion Ledger reports that since 2016, lawmakers have mandated that the Mississippi Department of Education spend up to $45 million on specific programs.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says the Department is working 'feverishly' on a multi-billion dollar aid package for farmers hit hard by the tariffs and looming trade war with China.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee made a stop in the Mid-South Friday amid calls for House Speaker Glen Casada to step down, claims of a federal investigation over school vouchers and a plea for clemency for a death row inmate from Memphis.
A Mid-South man is scheduled to die in a week for the 1984 murder of his wife. Now, the victim's own family is pleading with Tennessee's governor to spare his life.
Tennessee's top state Senate leader says he won't ask for embattled House Speaker Glen Casada to resign his leadership position amid mounting scandals surrounding Casada's office
Shelby County Assessor Melvin Burgess said his office is short-staffed, and he believes the county is leaving more than $7 million in property tax revenue on the table by not funding the office properly.
A Bolivar City Council member has been charged with theft and official misconduct after a state audit says his air conditioning business overcharged the county on multiple occasions.
Wednesday, Shelby County Commissioners took a first vote on a resolution encouraging the censure of Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Jim Lammey by the state of Tennessee’s Board of Judicial Conduct.
Munford attorney Jeff Ward, a long-time republican, is working on getting sworn affidavits from three women who have accused State Representative David Byrd (R) of sexual misconduct.
The chief of staff to Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada resigned Monday night amid reports he sent text messages to solicit interns and lobbyists for sex.
Tre Hargett says there is a need for standards in the state when registering people to vote. Now they have a benchmark in place to protect the integrity of the voting process.
Tennessee's legislature has ended its session for the year, but House Democrats are up in arms after a commotion happened inside the state capital involving a Memphis lawmaker.
Barr's decision to avoid the hearing, made after a disagreement with the House Judiciary Committee over questioning, came the day after the department also missed the committee's deadline to provide it with a full, unredacted version of Mueller's report and its underlying evidence.
Congressman Steve Cohen from Memphis was part of the House Judiciary Committee that was supposed to be in day two of testimony for Attorney General William Barr.
A business owner who ran unsuccessfully last year for a U.S. House seat in northwest Arkansas has announced plans to seek the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is not a fan of gambling, but his spokesperson says he will let this bill allowing online sport betting to become law without his signature.
Organizers are calling for people to fill the halls of the Tennessee capitol Monday, in a last-ditch effort to keep the school voucher initiative from becoming law.
Plans for a new homeless shelter, with beds specifically for women, was announced Thursday afternoon at a joint meeting between the Shelby County Commission and Memphis City Council.
Tuesday morning, a federal judge will be updated on how the City of Memphis is implementing sanctions handed down last fall after the court ruled that police illegally spied on activists.
It was the report the nation had been waiting for – Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Thursday, most of that report was released by Attorney General William Barr.
After one North Memphis police precinct responded to four homicides in 36 hours, leaders in the area called for continued and increased focus on the youth.Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland agrees.
The Tennessee House has advanced a proposal that would create a new state charter school commission to manage charter school appeals if operators are denied by a local school board
The first financial disclosure forms for 2019 in the Memphis mayoral race have now been filed. The forms detail campaign activity from January until March of this year.
A former Arkansas lawmaker who is also Gov. Asa Hutchinson's nephew has been indicted and accused of accepting bribes from a Missouri nonprofit in a widening federal corruption probe that's already ensnared several state legislators
A Mid-South mayor says a strict curfew is going to be enforced in an effort to curb a spike in violent crime. It’s just one of the tough new tactics coming to West Memphis.
