Shelby County Schools Board member Tomeka Hart will ask her fellow board members on Monday to delay the start of the unified school district by one year.

Though its' set to start in August, in an e-mail sent to fellow board members Hart is seeking a resolution to delay the start of the unified district until 2014.

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Knights of the Ku Klux Klan have applied for a permit to hold a rally on March 30 but the permit has not been approved by the city of Memphis.

The requested date is the day before Easter.

The rally location the KKK is asking for is downtown at 140 Adams Ave. The location is in front of Shelby County General Sessions

Longtime Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Otis Higgs passed away suddenly on Friday, Mayor Mark Luttrell said via his Facebook account.

Judge Higgs, who was 75, was elected to Criminal Court, Division 2 in 1998. He ran for Memphis mayor several times but never won. He also served briefly as interim Shelby County

The homegoing celebration for Bishop Albert E. Reed, the first ordained bishop in the Church of God in Christ, will be Saturday at 1 p.m.

Bishop Reed passed away Monday at the age of 100. He was ordained bishop in 1948 by the church's founder Bishop C H Mason. He pastored COGIC churches in California, Montana,