Justin J. Pearson, the community activist turned state leader, says he will follow in the footsteps of Rep. Cooper, who died days before the November election.
Justin J. Pearson has won the seat of state house representative for District 86 following the death of Representative Barbara Cooper, who died days before the 2022 Midterms.
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Shelby County’s Ryan White HIV Emergency Relief Program will receive a $1,217,533 from the Health Resources and Services Administration.
In a newly proposed bill, Mississippi Senator Michael McClendon is looking to make it illegal for parents to send their children to out-of-district schools.
The Tennessee Supreme Court has suspended the law license of a former Tennessee state senator who pleaded guilty last month to violating federal campaign finance laws.
There is a renewed push to end permitless handgun carry in Shelby County. A lawmaker from Memphis has a plan to remove the county from the current permitless carry state law that went into effect on July 1, 2021.
The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that Tennessee’s mandatory sentence of life in prison, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, is cruel and unusual punishment and violates the juvenile’s rights as guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
One year after it was originally filed, Tennessee is joining a petition with 21 other state attorneys general wanting strike down a COVID-19 vaccine mandate at health care facilities.
The return of the Memphis Showboats has a lot of city leaders excited for the upcoming USFL season. For Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, it’s the return of what was a success back in the ‘80s.
A new Tennessee bill proposal categorizes public drag shows as “sexually explicit, adult entertainment." However, local performers say this is far from the truth.
Newly released body cam footage shows the moment Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett was arrested for drunk driving in July. A Memphis defense attorney explains his 'bare minimum' DUI sentence.
A Tennessee senator who has been indicted on charges that he violated federal campaign finance requested a hearing to change his original not guilty plea.
One of the more hot-topic items of discussion on the statewide Nov. 8 ballot is the question of whether or not the Natural State will have a recreational marijuana program.
According to the Memphis-Shelby Crime Commission, the number of violent incidents involving guns in Shelby County has nearly doubled in the past 10 years.
Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert sees Monday’s county commission meeting as a step forward after commissioners laid out a set of goals for her and her office.
A bit more than a month into his tenure, Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy’s transition effort is into a new phase, with the hope of restoring public trust in the criminal justice system.
The allegation that Bryant leveraged his control of welfare spending to punish a political opponent comes in a two-year-old federal court filing released Friday after Mississippi Today successfully motioned to unseal the case.
For a second week, the last one being August 22-26, the Shelby County Clerk’s Office has been closed, trying to address a backlog of applications for mainly license plates, car tags, and business licenses.
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