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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Lawyers for the town of Mason, Tennessee, just northeast of Memphis, will be in court Wednesday trying to stop the state comptroller’s office from taking over the town’s finances. The state says the town has mismanaged its money for 20 years, and the problem has grown worse in the past four or […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Tipton County town of Mason, Tennessee has worked out a debt payment plan that could satisfy state officials in the wake of a takeover of the beleaguered town’s finances. State Rep. Antonio Parkinson, a Memphis Democrat and member of the House Democratic Caucus and Black Caucus of Tennessee Legislators, said in […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn.– A month after a visit from the Tennessee Comptroller, the state is moving forward with plans to take over the city of Mason’s financial operations after years of reported mismanagement. “It hurt us. I am saddened by the fact with how they’re doing it,” said Vice Mayor of Mason Virginia Rivers. A spokesperson with the Tennessee Comptroller […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The town of Mason is holding a meeting to discuss its future after the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury asked the town to surrender its charter or be taken over by the state. In a letter addressed to the citizens of Mason, Tennessee State Comptroller Jason Mumpower said Mason finds itself “in […]

The 33-year old Amish man who is now facing drug and weapons charges was not born into the Amish community. Detectives say he joined several years ago.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A funeral service for James Wilson, Jr., one of the Orange Mound postal shooting victims, was announced Tuesday. This comes a week after three people were killed after a postal worker shot two other employees at a sorting facility in Memphis before turning the gun on himself. Born August 14, 1974, James […]

THURSDAY 8/12/2021 3:33 p.m. ASHWAUBENON, Wis. (WFRV) – No criminal charges will be brought against the three Green Bay police officers involved in shooting and killing the Oneida Casino shooter on May 1. According to the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ), Sergeant Brian Jordan, Officer Makayla Wolfe, and Officer Ben Snyder were all cleared of […]

No state in the country has been immune from COVID-19 deaths. The World Health Organization declared the virus a pandemic on March 12, 2020.

BARTLETT, Tenn. — Hundreds of strangers stepped in to help a boy with autism have a special birthday surprise. A vanilla cupcake with blue icing probably would have been enough for Mason Sneed. But the community had bigger plans for his 10th birthday. “He has an autism, but doesn’t understand. He understands, but doesn’t understand […]

President Donald Trump made his first public comments Thursday afternoon just hours after he was acquitted on two articles of impeachment.

Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled for a stop at a Memphis church this Sunday, according to state Rep. Antonio Parkinson.