Local News and Politics
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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.
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State Sen. Brent Taylor proposes a new judicial district for the Memphis suburbs.
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The Department of Justice is taking Tennessee to court to challenge its enforcement of a state law that makes it a felony for someone who knows they have HIV to engage in sex work.
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Marie Feagins is the school board’s choice to be the next superintendent of Memphis-Shelby County Schools
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White says adding unelected school board members appointed by the governor, who lives in rural middle Tennessee, would help fix problems in low-performing urban school districts.
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The federal trial date for the former MPD officers charged with crimes related to Tyre Nichols' violent arrest has been reset to September.
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You're invited to a community listening event with StoryCorps! During this event, you will be able to hear stories from your friends and neighbors that participated in the StoryCorps Mobile Tour.
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"Work Therapy" programs, sometimes court ordered, say participants get needed help in exchange for free labor. But some health care professionals question the therapeutic benefits.
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In our latest installment of Civil Wrongs, a sheriff's deputy in Arkansas exploits the 13th Amendment's exception for convict labor as a tool of racial terror in the 1930s.