Memphis Commercial Appeal

Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division may have reduced the amount it is planning to reimburse former utility chief Joseph Lee III for his legal bills, but a city councilman is questioning why any of the bills are being paid in the first place.

The University of Memphis athletic department said today that it still has tickets available for the Saturday's 6 p.m. game at Ole Miss' Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

Shelby County Commissioners took the advice of Mayor AC Wharton on Wednesday and withdrew the more than $800,000 in raises they had approved last week for sheriff's deputies.

Two former lacrosse coaches from Ohio have pleaded guilty to reduced charges stemming from an alleged sexual assault on a high school player while the team was in Memphis for a tournament in 2006.

A day after the largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, Elizabeth Alegria was too scared to send her son to school and worried about when she'd see her husband again.

Memphis Jewish High School has begun its third year, with 20 students in its freshman, sophomore and junior classes.

A Memphis man faces aggravated assault and resisting arrest charges after an attack on his girlfriend with a lamp early Tuesday at a Frayser apartment.

One weekend last spring, representatives from Memphis-based Resource Entertainment Group simultaneously worked a NASCAR postrace event in Millington, a crawfish festival at a Mississippi casino and a concert in Dublin, Ireland.

The Tigers got a verbal commitment from a player they didn't actively recruit. Who happens to play at a position of need. Who is talented enough potentially to help the Tigers get back to the Final Four this year. Whose younger brother is arguably the top recruit in the country.

Word is, they're out there -- female voters still incensed that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is not the Democrats' pick for the presidency.

If positive feedback helps make a happy employee, William Quinn is pedaling himself positively ecstatic. When Quinn cycles through an East Memphis neighborhood, residents often wave and sometimes stop to chat, offer him cookies or tell him to knock on the door if he needs anything. He and other bicycling security guards are giving residents a little two-wheeled peace of mind.

Munford and Brighton Elementary fourth-graders are taking part in a Le Bonheur pilot project to determine if school nurse intervention takes pounds off childhood obesity.

If positive feedback helps make a happy employee, William Quinn is pedaling himself positively ecstatic. When Quinn cycles through an East Memphis neighborhood, residents often wave and sometimes stop to chat, offer him cookies or tell him to knock on the door if he needs anything. He and other bicycling security guards are giving residents a little two-wheeled peace of mind.

Medical-device maker Stryker Corp. is suing the federal government in an effort to fight a bribery investigation.

It's a bit premature to start popping champagne corks over a proposed development agreement that would allow Bass Pro Shops to lease The Pyramid.

NASHVILLE -- State Rep. G.A. Hardaway of Memphis faces charges of driving on a suspended license and driving without proof of insurance in Olive Branch, police there confirmed Tuesday.

They're connected by something that weighs about four ounces. Size, though, doesn't dictate the significance. Three years ago, an organ donor gave Lynda Blackford a new kidney. Tuesday, Blackford met for the first time the family of Beverly Stallings, the Southaven woman who saved her life.

Vandals damaged the Millington Jetport's automatic weather observation system Sunday.

In a sign that economic woes are having a big impact on Hispanics in Memphis, donations to last week's Spanish-language radio campaign for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital dipped for the second year in a row.

For Charlie Jones, one of the nation's top running backs coming out of high school four years ago, the almost 20-month wait should end shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday night at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Miss.