Shelby County government is launching a public-private effort designed to improve the health of residents and reduce the cost of medical care locally.

Shelby County Reads organizers are encouraging Shelby County to take up a pen again this year as part of the annual program’s writing contest for county residents from preschool-age to adult.

COUNTY -- Authorities are investigating the death of a bald eagle in Shelby County this week, believed to have been hit by a car sometime last week south of Irwin.

JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled against several losing candidates who filed suit against the Shelby County Election Commission claiming the 2010 county election races were rigged. The appellate court on Monday said the candidates failed to show that "fraud or illegality so permeated the conduct of the election as to render it incurably uncertain." The unanimous ...

Attorneys for the unified school board and the Shelby County Commission will confer with U.S. District Court Judge Samuel H. Mays Jr. today on one of the key points in his ruling last summer in the city-county school consolidation case:

Though Shelby County Bank is now a First Merchants Bank, officials say everything is business as usual.

SHELBYVILLE (JG-TC) - Efforts to combat "a recurring methamphetamine problem in central Illinois" led to nearly a dozen arrests last week of Shelby County residents accused on various meth charges.

Kendrion FAS Controls will add 57 jobs and invest $7.3 million as part of an expansion to its manufacturing plant in Shelby, state and company officials announced Monday.

Commission working on franchise agreements with Charter, Zito Media and similar agreement with AT&T.

Owner, Andy Carter, who took ownership of the Shelby landmark back in 1994 won't give up his burger-making secret, but says he goes through 50,000 pounds of ground chuck, between the Shelby and Pentwater locations, a year.