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The Tennessee Supreme Court has ordered the suspension of all in-person hearings and jury trials until next year.

Tennessee session starts this week and figures to be one of the more contentious ones in recent memory. There are several issues ranging from abortion to education to infrastructure that the legislature will tackle in the next few months.

New details were released after a woman was accused of stabbing her 10-year-old daughter to death in Raleigh.

HORN LAKE, Miss. – Friday was the deadline for DeSoto County Schools parents to switch their children to either virtual or in-person learning for the upcoming semester. It comes as DeSoto County students continue to test positive for COVID-19. In the week ending December 4th, DCS added 66 new COVID cases, and many more students […]

FAYETTE COUNTY, Tenn. — Five young people who escaped from the Wilder Youth Development Center in Fayette County remain on the run Monday. They were reported missing Saturday morning, and while their names are not being released, these young escapees have records of very violent crimes. Bridget Brown lives about a quarter mile from the […]

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — Southaven High School’s football team will no longer play Hernando High School’s team Friday after multiple Southaven players tested positive for COVID-19, DeSoto County Schools confirms. The district isn’t saying how many players tested positive but said the entire football team hasn’t been quarantined. DCS said its decision is in line with […]

Two Millington residents were arrested after deputies discovered a possible case of child sexual abuse and neglect.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — More than 29 people at a Memphis youth facility tested positive for COVID-19 after the state department of health and national guard conducted mass testing at the facility. According to a press release from the Tennessee Department of Children Services, 22 juveniles and seven staff members at the Memphis Center for Independence […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – The owner of a Knoxville daycare will serve four years of state-supervised probation after pleading guilty in the 2018 deaths of twin toddlers. Jennifer Salley, owner of OM Baby Childcare, pleaded guilty to two counts of criminally negligent homicide on Wednesday. She was charged after 2-year-old Elyssa and Elijah Orejulah were […]

DESOTO COUNTY, Miss. — Some parents across the Mid-South are demanding changes in the virtual learning process. Jarvis Jeffries, whose daughter takes virtual classes in DeSoto County, has started a petition drive to get the school system to change its virtual learning program. He said the virtual learning process has not been going according to […]

DeSoto County Schools, Mississippi’s largest school district, announced Wednesday that students would return to school August 6.