Also, Congressman Steve Cohen announced an EPA grant to address air pollution and legislators honored Fred Smith.

Courts have recognized a “private right of action” in the Voting Rights Act since the law’s inception. In 1966, a dispute over a school board seat deep in Louisiana’s Black Belt triggered one of the ...

We are known as an “asthma capital” in the U.S., and recent statistics found that we had the most asthma-related ER visits in ...

Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the members of the CDC’s esteemed vaccine advisory panel, medical organizations and experts ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Shelby County becomes the first in the South to adopt such a standard, adopting the Mandela Rules. Mayor Lee Harris signs executive order to limit solitary confinement in Shelby ...

The signing will make Shelby County the first government in the South to implement the Mandela Rules standard.

Shelby County Division of Corrections will assume control of the Youth Justice and Education Center by October. This follows the Shelby County Sheriff's Office's decision to relinquish operational ...

Shelby County Division of Corrections will assume control of the Youth Justice and Education Center by October. This follows the Shelby County Sheriff's Office's decision to relinquish operational ...

The Shelby County Division of Corrections will take over the center after the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said it could no longer operate it. Forecast: Some storms to start week, a break and ...

Juvenile Court Judge Tarik Sugarmon said Walker's appointment "charts a brighter course" for the juvenile detention center. Walker, in the same statement, said it was an honor to serve in the role.