News of the Day: March 5, 2021

Here’s everything you need to know going on in the Mid-South:

• ServiceMaster Brands announced the company is moving from Memphis to Atlanta and are expected to lay off some Memphis workers. The Memphis Business Journal reports employees can move to Atlanta and some will work remotely, but job losses could top 50. The ServiceMaster Brands sold for $1.5 billion last year.

• Memphis Police are investigating two people killed in a shooting at The View apartment complex in Cordova Thursday morning. The victims included a man and a woman, and Police report that preliminary information indicates this could be a murder and a suicide. 

• Arlington High School girls’ basketball program has been placed on restrictive probation through 2022 after an incident that injured a Dyer County coach this past Tuesday. The TSSAA says a juvenile allegedly knocked down Coach Derrick McCord and struck him on the ground multiple times at a game. It has been reported that the juvenile is the son of Arlington girls’ basketball coach Ashley Shields.

• Miss. Governor Tate Reeves announced he will sign the Miss. Fairness Act that passed Wednesday by the House and the Senate. The bill would require public institutions to designate its athletics according to biological sex of the players.