Local News and Politics
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State lawmakers ensure that Memphis cops can pull people over small infractions, but won't sign off on crime lab or new jail to put serious criminals away.
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State lawmakers have passed a bill that would invalidate a Memphis law enforcement ordinance banning certain kinds of low-level police traffic stops.
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A Shelby County judge has agreed to put off the state trial for the former Memphis Police officers charged with second degree murder for Tyre Nichols death until after an outcome is reached in their separate federal trial.
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This week lawmakers debated bills on school vouchers and whether a city government can have any say on how their local police force conducts itself with residents.
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President Biden, former President Donald Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley are vying for their party's delegates. Follow the live results.
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The nonprofit now known as Friends for All celebrated the grand opening of its new headquarters on Poplar Avenue on Friday.
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Republicans propose several measures to further make supermajority rule unanswerable to critics, communities and constitution.
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Voting concludes Saturday in South Carolina's Republican presidential primary election. Polls open at 7 a.m. ET and close at 7 p.m. ET. Follow the results live.
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State lawmakers have voted to no longer require sex offender registration for someone convicted under the state’s decades-old aggravated prostitution law, which only affects sex workers who are HIV positive.
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Shelby County's crime problem could be addressed with an intensive, multi-agency effort. But it'll take money and political will.