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Maintenance projects for existing Memphis schools will take priority, Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Marie Feagins says.

Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert told commissioners because of the amount of revenue her office generates, her employees are due more.

It’s the latest accusation against Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert as the investigation into her offices operations continues.

The commissioner sent the complaint to Hamilton County District Attorney Coty Wamp, who is investigating Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert and her office.

Numerous complaints and heavy criticism of the Shelby County Clerks Office for more than a year has been only that, according to a special prosecutor tapped to investigated the office.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Shelby County commissioner has filed a formal complaint against embattled Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert. Thursday, Commissioner Mick Wright announced that he has filed a 20-page complaint against Halbert. According to Wright, the complaint includes 25 recommendations from witnesses who were interviewed, as well as a summary of 20 itemized complaints. […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert says reports that an East Memphis branch office was evicted due to non-payment of rent are untrue. “There has been concern that we were evicted,” Halbert said. “That’s absolutely not true.” We started the day asking “Where’s Wanda?” and Thursday afternoon, for the first time this week, […]

Coty Wamp, district attorney general for the 11th judicial district in Hamilton County, will conduct the investigation into the long-embattled clerk.

The 30-cent property tax increase was proposed by Commissioner Erika Sugarmon, and would increase revenues by $69 million in its first year.

Shelby County Clerk’s Office Poplar Plaza location will move to another space inside the same complex and they expect no gaps in coverage, according to special adviser to the Clerk’s Office Janet Hooks.