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DALLAS (AP) — A week after the second conviction of a man charged in the deaths of 22 elderly women, family members of those he is accused of killing gathered at a Dallas courthouse Friday to face him. In Ellen French House’s victim impact statement, she told Billy Chemirmir, who was wearing a striped jail […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Leaders and activists from across Shelby County are coming together with a common message: stop the violence. The city of Memphis is on track for a record-setting year and not in a good way. As of Friday, there were 195 murders in the city. Memphis already surpassed last year’s total with three […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The push to wear masks has been an ongoing message for the Memphis area, but Tuesday afternoon county Mayor Lee Harris laid out why that message is so important in stopping coronavirus. During the COVID Task Force briefing he laid out numbers to show just who was wearing masks before the health directive to do […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Carmen Berkley, a strategist with a Seattle-based foundation advocating equity and racial justice, remembers meeting Harry Belafonte a decade ago when she was a youth activist. She’d gone to Florida to attend a sit-in protest that other young Black activists had staged at the Capitol in Tallahassee over the death of […]

Check out all of the Live at 9 interviews from Friday, March 27, 2020.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Shelby County Commission Committee met again on Monday evening, but they could not finalize a budget. It is a task the Shelby County Commission Committee has been trying to tackle for weeks now, but they are having a difficult time doing so. Some county departments claim they need new hires to […]

SHELBY COUNTY, Tenn. — Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris has ordered all flags bearing the county government logo to fly at half-staff next week. “The murder of George Floyd, captured on video, tears back the veil on racial injustice, an issue that seems to worsen by the day,” said Harris in a released statement. “African […]

All of the municipalty mayors have relased a joint statement in support of the Shelby County Health Department’s latest health directive.

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) rallied outside the Capitol on Wednesday with Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville), in a call for gun control and an end to “attacks on democracy.”  “We’re here today, to put it quite simply, because we’re young and fed up,” Frost said to supporters and press outside the Capitol on Wednesday. […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County will remain in Phase II of the ‘Back to Business’ plan following the recommendation from the county health department. The recommendation comes after health officials examined daily COVID-19 data since Shelby County entered Phase II back on May 19, 2020. In a press release from the Shelby County Health Department, […]

In this time of dealing with COVID-19, there will be an uphill battle this budget season, Mayor Lee Harris has said.