Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy have plans for a limited local crime lab that could be housed within the West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center.
The Shelby County Board of Commissioners has approved a set of three measures designed to get a qualified bidder for a three-year contract to run the West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center.
The new county budget and property-tax rate for the fiscal year that begins July 1 wasn’t on the agenda Monday, June 2, for the Shelby County Board of Commissioners.
The West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center — critically important for performing autopsies for 20 counties — is facing uncertainty as no organization has bid on a contract to operate the center.
Since ShelbyCares opened its first neighborhood health hub in May 2023, Penny Ward has dropped about 100 pounds, stopped taking two medications and seen her blood pressure and blood sugar numbers drop to their lowest in decades.
After an extensive nationwide search, Karla Leeper, a highly accomplished communicator with decades of leadership experience in higher education and health care, has been named the new vice chancellor for Strategic Communications and Marketing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Dr. Lloyd Finks was dining with his wife Shannon one night when they began discussing the many flaws in the health care system, including cost, value, transparency and patient care.
Sarah Rose Cullen keeps her bird feeders well stocked for the array of species that visit her Millington backyard.
