Attorney Hillary Hill Bellan, who originally joined Shea, Moskovitz & McGhee in 2012, says she always enjoyed working at the law firm and missed it when she moved to Florida in 2014. Now she is back in Memphis and has rejoined the firm, focusing her practice exclusively on family law matters, including divorce, custody disputes, child support modifications, parental relocation and termination of parental rights.

2. Last Word: Eureka Education, Confederate Monuments in Court and Dillon Brooks - Friday, January 26, 2018

Supermarkets are hard. That is the tag line in every discussion about getting a supermarket or grocery store for a given part of town that doesn’t have one. And once a new supermarket goes up somewhere else, there is inevitably word that a competitor or two is going to build nearby. The discussion always includes the mandatory recitation of the 3 to 4 percent profit margin stores operate on, which even knowledgeable critics of the decisions about where to locate and not to locate stores acknowledge is accurate.

3. Last Word: A New Majority, A Plan After Kroger and Cold Cases - Friday, January 12, 2018

Shelby County elections administrator Linda Phillips has been watching the ebb and flow of petitions for the 2018 elections and has found what she believes is a link to the weather. “Apparently when the dreaded ‘snow’ word is mentioned in the forecast, not only do people go out and clear the shelves of milk, bread and eggs. They also decide to pick up a petition,” she wrote in an email with the list of who has pulled and who has filed in the last two days.

4. Fed's Memphis Branch Makes Board Appointments - Saturday, January 13, 2018

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has announced a set of changes to its Memphis Branch board of directors, effective Jan. 1.

5. St. Louis Fed Memphis Branch Makes Board Appointments - Friday, January 12, 2018

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has announced a set of changes to its Memphis Branch board of directors, effective Jan. 1.

6. Memphis Marks International Overdose Awareness Day - Thursday, August 31, 2017

As opioid painkiller abuse rises across the nation, Memphians are preparing to mark International Overdose Awareness Day Thursday, Aug. 31.

A ceremony is set for 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Martyr’s Park Downtown, followed by a lighting of the Harahan Bridge and a candlelight procession to Big River Crossing. Guest speakers include Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich and Memphis Police Department chief of special operations Michael Hardy, and names of individuals who have died as a result of addiction will be read.

7. St. Louis Fed Updates Memphis Board - Saturday, December 27, 2014

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has announced some changes to the board of directors of its Memphis branch, effective Jan. 1.

8. St. Louis Fed Updates Memphis Board - Wednesday, December 24, 2014

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has announced some changes to the board of directors of its Memphis branch, effective Jan. 1.

9. Election Day Arrives for Municipal School Boards - Thursday, November 7, 2013

Voters in Shelby County’s six suburban towns and cities go to the polls Thursday, Nov. 7, for the second time in a year to elect school boards for their respective municipal school districts.

10. City Council Approves Fairgrounds TDZ Request - Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Memphis City Council members approved Tuesday, Feb. 19, plans for a tourism development zone to capture sales tax revenue in a large area for a renovation of the Fairgrounds property at first.

The boundaries of the zone go to the state for approval and city Community and Housing Development division director Robert Lipscomb said such a proposal could be at the state building commission in Nashville in April.

11. Mays Hears of Cell Phones and Drug Delivery Planned Behind Bars At Mason - Friday, February 1, 2013

Two leaders of the Craig Petties drug organization were caught with cell phones while they were prisoners at the federal prison in Mason, Tennessee last year and a third was suspected of trying to have a kilogram of cocaine delivered to him in prison.

12. Mays Opens Hearings On Municipal Schools With Testimony - Wednesday, September 5, 2012

The first of two days of testimony in the federal court case over the state laws setting up municipal school districts ended with a lot of reading material for U.S. District Court Judge Hardy Mays.

13. Hinte Expands Role At Second to Nunn - Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Lowell Hinte has been promoted to account manager and designer at website- and branding-design company Second to Nunn Design. Hinte has served as a designer at S2N since 2009. In his expanded role, Hinte will ensure clients’ expectations are met on key projects regarding strategy, vision, quality and schedule.

14. Polls Set to Open for Early Voting - Friday, July 13, 2012

Shelby County voters start deciding Friday, July 13, general election countywide races for assessor of property, General Sessions Court clerk, district attorney general and a race for a Shelby County Commission seat. The ballot also includes seven races for district seats on the countywide school board.

15. AP Source: Freeze Agrees to Take Ole Miss Job - Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Arkansas State's Hugh Freeze has agreed to take the Mississippi job, according to a person familiar to the coaching search.

16. Defendant in Petties Case Pleads Guilty - Monday, October 24, 2011

The biggest drug case ever brought in Memphis federal court is down to three defendants who have a tentative trial date in January on racketeering and murder-for-hire charges.

Demetrious Fields pleaded guilty last week to three of the counts he faced for his role in the multi-state drug organization headed by Craig Petties from 1995 to 2008.

17. Feds Seek Anonymous Jury in Drug Case - Thursday, September 15, 2011

Federal prosecutors want an “anonymous jury” for the trial next year of four men accused of being contract killers for the largest drug ring ever tried in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee in Memphis.

18. Schools Consolidation Saga Turns Corner - Monday, August 29, 2011

Where does a 23-member countywide school board meet? “FedExForum is open,” replied Shelby County Schools board chairman David Pickler last week to the question from fellow board member David Reaves.

19. Countywide School Board Plans Make Different Recommendations to Court - Monday, August 15, 2011
Recommendations for the creation of a new countywide school board began coming in late Friday, Aug. 12, to the Federal Court clerk's office.

The Memphis City School board recommends a seven district countywide school board with an election of that board to be held no later than March 2012.

20. Deadline Looms for School Board Plans - Friday, August 12, 2011

Attorneys on several sides of the schools consolidation lawsuit have until the end of Friday, Aug. 12, to submit their plans to Federal Judge Hardy Mays for a redrawn countywide school board that includes proportional representation for Memphians.

21. Bloomberg Grant Highlights Big City Challenges - Monday, July 18, 2011

When the nonprofit foundation of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg went looking for cities to award grants for innovation, foundation leaders didn’t just give out an address and wait for applications.

22. Motions Offer New Details in Petties Drug Case - Friday, June 3, 2011

Three of the four remaining defendants in the largest and most violent drug case ever brought in Memphis federal court want more information about the cases against them and a separate trial for two of them.

23. Mays Hears Arguments in Consolidation Suit - Monday, May 16, 2011

There were plenty of railroad analogies when Memphis federal court Judge Hardy Mays held the first hearing in the schools consolidation lawsuit last week.

One of the consolidation scenarios he will rule on has been referred to for months as a “second track” to merging the county’s two public school systems.

24. Mays Sets Monday Hearing in Schools Suit - Friday, March 25, 2011

U.S. District Court Judge Hardy Mays has set a tentative Monday hearing in the schools consolidation lawsuit, hours before the Shelby County Commission was scheduled to appoint citizens to a 25-member countywide school board.

25. Mays Sets Monday Hearing in Schools Suit - Thursday, March 24, 2011

U.S. District Court Judge Hardy Mays has set a tentative Monday hearing in the schools consolidation lawsuit, hours before the Shelby County Commission is scheduled to appoint citizens to a 25-member countywide school board.

26. Mays To Hold Schools Consolidation Hearing - Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Most of the Shelby County Schools board wants a court order in Memphis federal court Thursday that will stop the plan by the Shelby County Commission to appoint a new countywide school board on March 28.

27. County School Board Seeks Injunction From Thursday Schools Hearing - Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Most of the Shelby County school board wants a court order in Memphis federal court Thursday that will stop the plan by the Shelby County Commission to appoint a new countywide school board on March 28.

28. County School Board Members Seek Court Halt to Countywide School Board - Monday, March 21, 2011

U.S. District Court Judge Hardy Mays has set a Thursday status conference on the schools consolidation lawsuit and legal motions pending in his court.

And five of the seven Shelby County school board members want him to stop the Shelby County Commission from appointing a new countywide school board on March 28.

29. Fallout Over Morgan Keegan Funds Continues - Thursday, October 14, 2010

After losing a $7.1 million arbitration claim last month against Morgan Keegan & Co., the lawyer for a group of investors that includes the former chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is preparing to renew the fight against the Memphis firm in Shelby County Chancery Court.

30. ‘Not Guilty’ Eclipses Week of Ford Trial Highlights - Friday, May 23, 2008

Outside the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Hardy Mays Wednesday afternoon, reporters waiting for word of a verdict in the Edmund Ford federal corruption trial reflected on memorable phrases uttered during the court proceedings.

31. While Acquitted Wednesday, Ford Still Awaits Separate Pay-for-Favors Trial - Thursday, May 22, 2008

Former Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford wiped his eyes after a jury of seven women and five men acquitted him Wednesday afternoon on three counts of bribery and three counts of extortion.

The tears soon were replaced with vocal outbursts of joy. When reporters approached him for comment outside the courtroom after the verdict had been read, the former councilman threw his arms forward and boomed: “It’s over.” Speaking to reporters in the plaza area outside the federal building, the ex-councilman raised his arms in thanks.

32. Jury Deliberates In Ford Case - Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The jury in the corruption trial of former Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. deliberated Tuesday for about two hours before breaking for the night.

The panel of 12 got the case Tuesday afternoon, a week and a day after the trial opened in Memphis federal court before U.S. District Judge Hardy Mays. They return to work this morning.

33. Ford Trial’s Nuances Appear Made for TV - Monday, May 19, 2008

Assistant U.S. Attorney Larry Laurenzi told a federal court jury last week that the trial of former City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. would, in part, be about “a corrupt environment” at Memphis City Hall.

34. Cooper’s Foibles on Display During Ford Trial - Friday, May 16, 2008

Once the jury in the federal corruption trial of former Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. finished watching the recordings that are the centerpiece of the case this week, they got to know a lot more about the government informant behind the camera.

35. Cooper Testifying In Ford Trial - Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Former Shelby County Commissioner Joe Cooper will continue his testimony Wednesday in the federal corruption trial of former Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford Sr.

Cooper, who took the witness stand late Tuesday afternoon, is the key government witness in the trial which is expected to last all of this week. When he met with Ford between August and November 2006, Cooper was cooperating with the FBI, recording the conversations and passing money provided by the FBI to Ford.

36. Opening Statements Get Ford Trial Under Way - Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The defense and prosecution in the corruption trial of former Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. have given the jury in the federal case very different explanations for the money Ford is accused of having taken.

37. Jury Pool Expanded, Questions Thorough For Coming Ford Trial - Thursday, April 24, 2008

The corruption trial of former Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. will begin next month with a jury pool of 105 people. There will be lots of questions for the jury about their backgrounds and political views, but the questions won't be as direct as whether they are Republicans or Democrats or whom they have supported in what races.

38. Scholl Says Number of Trials 'Onerous' - Tuesday, January 29, 2008

The federal corruption cases involving former City Council member Edmund Ford have taken an unusual path through three grand jury reviews in a year's time.

In that time, Ford picked up a second set of corruption charges and a codefendant, former Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division president Joseph Lee.

39. Feds ‘Strenuously’ Disagree With Mays’s Ruling About Ford and Lee Trials - Friday, December 21, 2007

Federal prosecutors plan to ask U.S. District Judge Hardy Mays to reconsider Wednesday’s ruling separating the corruption cases and trials of Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford and former Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division president Joseph Lee.

40. Feds ‘Strenuously’ Disagree With Mays’s Ruling About Ford and Lee Trials - Thursday, December 20, 2007

Federal prosecutors plan to ask U.S. District Judge Hardy Mays to reconsider Wednesday’s ruling separating the corruption cases and trials of Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford and former Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division president Joseph Lee.

41. Ford, Lee to be Tried Separately on Corruption Charges - Thursday, December 20, 2007

U.S. District Judge Hardy Mays ruled late Wednesday that City Council member Edmund Ford and former Memphis Light, Gas &Water Division president Joseph Lee will be tried separately on corruption charges.

42. Ford, Lee to be Tried Separately on Corruption Charges - Wednesday, December 19, 2007

U.S. District Judge Hardy Mays ruled late today that City Council member Edmund Ford and former Memphis Light, Gas &Water Division president Joseph Lee will be tried separately on corruption charges.

43. White Joins Junior Achievement As Exchange City Manager - Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Michael White has joined Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South as Exchange City manager.

Previously, White has served in various youth development positions in the community including as a YMCA youth counselor and director of the Stax Music Academy Summer Camp. He earned a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Memphis.

44. Archived Article: Newsmakers - Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Agricenter Gets New Director of Research

Agricenter Gets New Director of Research

Jamie Jenkins joined Agricenter International as director of research. Jenkins previously worked with the University of Tennessee Agriculture Extension Service. ...

45. Archived Article: Benchmark - Thursday, January 11, 2001
McGwire sues to stop phony bills McGwire sues to stop phony bills Seventy homers is one thing, but $70 bills are quite another for home run king Mark McGwire. The St. Louis Cardinals slugger filed suit in St. Louis Circuit Court Jan. 4, seeking to s...

46. Archived Article: Real Fcs (lawns) Lj - Tuesday, April 8, 1997
lj 10/5 cates Love that lawn A healthy lawn can do more than just enhance a homes appearance By LAURIE JOHNSON The Daily News For the past six months, the Mid-South has been inundated with near-record rainfall levels. Many homeowners are now used to...

47. Archived Article: Benchmark - Thursday, May 30, 1996
Alison Price vs Alison Price vs. Leader Federal Bank and Margaret Hardy. A Walls, Miss., woman is suing a local bank and one of its supervisors for discrimination in Chancery Court. According to the suit, the plaintiff was hired in August 1994 as a ...

48. Archived Article: Memos - Wednesday, April 3, 1996
04-03 memos Enterprise National Bank announced several promotions: Deborah Gifford was promoted to a vice president at Enterprise. Gifford has been employed by company since its inception in 1990 and manages the retail banking division. Judy Magri w...