Savannah Smith

This week on Channel 10’s Behind the Headlines Eric Barnes hosts a journalist roundtable to discuss COVID-19 restrictions, the I-40 bridge failure and more with The New Tri-State Defender's Karanja Ajanaku, The Memphis Flyer's Toby Sells, and The Daily Memphian's Matt Stroud and Bill Dries.

The Shelby County Joint Task Force resumes video conferences as the number of COVID-19 and Delta Variant cases rises. Watch at 12PM on Thursday, July 29.

The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is holding its first meeting Tuesday.

Administrators are facing another semester overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic as students in the Shelby County Schools district return to classes on August 8.

The Tennessee state health department recently stopped all outreach to adolescents about vaccinations - of any kind. This decision came after "some Republican legislators thought things were moving too fast and that minors would get vaccinations without parental approval," says Daily Memphian reporter Bill Dries.

Since 2014, Shelby County Schools has partnered with Porter-Leath, a nonprofit focused on early childhood education for at-risk and low-income families. Last month, SCS made the decision to end its seven-year collaboration.

Though Shelby County's 2021-22 budget has been approved, there is a chance commissioners will revisit the proposal of a penny tax increase. The small tax hike would go toward mental health treatment. However, not every commissioner is on board.

The proposed Byhalia Pipeline, which would carry crude oil from a refinery in Memphis to a plant in North Mississippi, is seen by environmentalists as a potential threat to Memphis' drinking water.