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Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris has named Dr. Cedrick Gray as the county’s first Director of Education.

County Mayor Lee Harris is going back on a plan announced earlier this year by his predecessor Mark Luttrell, scrapping a $30 million plan to build a treatment facility in a decision that impacts everywhere from the city to the suburbs.

Memphis the sixth city selected for this program.

School officials declined to name the student who was killed, but sources confirm he was Kameron Johnson, known by the nickname KamKam.

Temporary county employees could soon be getting a raise.

Juveniles detained in the Shelby County Juvenile Detention Center will no longer be charged for calls made to their parents or guardians.

WREG has compiled the following list of uncontested races in our viewing area. Tennessee races are on the first page. Follow the links for Mississippi and Arkansas. TENNESSEE Tennessee General Assembly SENATE DISTRICT 33: Katrina Robinson (D) HOUSE DISTRICT 77: Bill Sanderson (R) (inc.) HOUSE DISTRICT 80: Johnny Shaw (D) (inc.) HOUSE DISTRICT 81: Debra Moody (R) […]

The Department of Justice announced Friday it is closing its monitoring of the Juvenile Court and detention center in Memphis.

“I am still trying to process the news. I don’t know what it means for our community,” county Mayor Lee Harris said.

According to police, Phil Trenary was on South Front Street near G.E. Patterson when someone in a white truck drove up and shot him. The suspect then took off.

The mayors of Memphis and Shelby County have declared September 15th through 23rd as a “Week of Non-Violence.”