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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis-Shelby County School Board is preparing to give a new update on the search for a school superintendent. The search was put on pause after some board members had questions for the firm doing the search. “I believe we laid out the process. I’m not sure where the breakdown happened for […]

Sexual assault, felony arrests, drugs, DUI  — more than 150 Shelby County Schools teachers have faced suspension, termination or resigned over the past three years, a WREG investigation into state records has revealed.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The committee tasked with leading the search for the next Memphis Shelby County Schools Superintendent unveiled their three finalists to the school board — but board members did not seem impressed with the candidates. Hazard, Young, Attea, and Associates, presented their finalists to the board Saturday morning. “We are not going to […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Police are looking for the person who abducted a Memphis Shelby County Schools student on her way to school Thursday morning in South Memphis. Police have not said how old the student was or what school she was headed to but said she was taken against her will in the area […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The second of two Black Democrats who were kicked out of the Republican-led Tennessee House followed his colleague back to work at the Capitol on Thursday, a week after their expulsion for participating in a gun control protest propelled them into the national spotlight. State Rep. Justin Pearson, of Memphis, was […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Justin J. Pearson is heading back to Nashville with family and plans to be sworn in to office Thursday morning. Thursday morning at 5 a.m., a caravan of supporters were scheduled to leave for Nashville from the Planned Parenthood office on Poplar Avenue in Memphis. Wednesday, a 7-0 vote by the Shelby […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Lawmakers and leaders are reacting after the Shelby County Commission unanimously voted Wednesday to appoint Justin J. Pearson to his seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Chants from Pearson’s supporters filled the room after all seven commissioners in attendance voted “Yes” to the decision. Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris signed […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — The Shelby County Commission voted Wednesday to reappoint Justin J. Pearson to the state House seat from which he was expelled. All seven commissioners who were present voted yes on the reappointment: Henri Brooks, Edmund Ford Jr., Erika Sugarmon, Charlie Caswell, Shante Avant, Miska Clay-Bibbs and Mickell Lowery. Commissioners Amber Mills, […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The second of two Black Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House will return to the Legislature after a Memphis commission voted to reinstate him Wednesday, nearly a week after his banishment for supporting gun control protesters propelled him into the national spotlight. Hundreds of supporters marched Justin Pearson through Memphis […]

A county commission voted Wednesday to reappoint Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson (D-Memphis) to the state House seat from which he was expelled.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans partnered with the NFL Grassroots Program to award $50,000 to Freedom Preparatory Academy Charter Schools Monday for field upgrades at the Brownlee Road campus in Whitehaven. The grant funds will be used to install bleachers, lighting, and a scoreboard. The NFL Grassroots Program is a partnership between the NFL […]