News Staff A Tennessee grocery store will soon reopen after being closed for nearly six weeks after a man fatally shot one person and wounded 14 others. Kroger spokesperson Teresa Dickerson told news outlets Friday that the store has been under construction with renovations, but will reopen on Nov. 10. On Sept. 23, law enforcement officials say … Read more
Mississippi is running behind many other states in deciding how to spend billions of federal dollars for pandemic relief. Congress allocated $1.8 billion for Mississippi through the American Rescue Plan, and the first half of the money arrived in the state treasury in May, weeks after legislators finished their 2021 session. The federal government says … Read more
Two civil rights groups have filed a federal court challenge against a Tennessee law that bars transgender athletes from playing public high school or middle school sports aligned with their gender identity. The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee and Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Nashville on behalf of … Read more
The Tennessee Supreme Court has set two new execution dates after executions in the state were put on hold due to the pandemic. Oscar Smith had been sentenced to die in June 2020, for the murders of his estranged wife and her two sons from a previous marriage. On Wednesday, the court set a new … Read more
The newest member of the Mississippi House of Representatives used to be in control of security on the other end of the state Capitol. Democratic Rep. Robert Sanders of Cleveland took his oath of office during a small ceremony Wednesday in the House chamber. He served as sergeant-at-arms for the Mississippi Senate from 2000 to … Read more
Children under the age of 12 can now get a COVID-19 vaccine shot in Shelby County. The SHelbby County Health Department is now giving first doses of the vaccine to children ages 5 to 11 at the immunization clinic at the health department headquarters. These are the Pfizer shots. St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital was … Read more
Mississippi health care providers say they may have to close floors and reduce patient beds after losing hundreds of nurses due to the recent expiration of a federal contract put in place to help the state battle the coronavirus pandemic. During the last wave of COVID-19, 900 nurses were deployed to hospitals across the state … Read more
MLGW has not been immune to the worker shortage affecting much oft he entire country. MLGW said Monday that bill payers will notice the biggest trouble in customer service. If you can’t get through on the MLGW main phone line, it’s because the utility says it can’t find enough cvustomer service workers to fill those … Read more
Police say four people were killed and one was injured in a wrong-way crash on a street in Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis police tweeted early Monday that a vehicle traveling west in the eastbound lanes struck two other vehicles, causing one to catch fire. Police say four people were pronounced dead at the scene and one … Read more
Newly approved legislation would mean Tennessee schools will have to jump through even more hoops if they want to implement mask mandates to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The strict new rules are part of a sweeping bill Republicans signed off on in the middle of the night over the weekend as they worked to … Read more