MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - State lawmakers, Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) and Lt. Governor Randy McNally (R-Oak Ridge), held a press conference to share the initial findings of the Memphis-Shelby County Schools audit. This news comes amid a possible state takeover, a plan headed by GOP lawmakers that would seek to implement an advisory board over the MSCS board. During the event, lawmakers ...
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (WMC) - Investigators have identified the two people killed in a plane crash in Marshall County, Mississippi, on Sunday. “It was in a very dense wooded area. It appeared the plane first struck a large pine tree and from there went on to the ground, again, where it burst into ...
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