A Republican lawmaker who spearheaded an effort by six Memphis suburbs to start public school systems says the parties are mulling their next options after a federal judge ruled against the action.

U.S. District Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays, Jr., issued a 65-page ruling Tuesday evening saying that the state law that

She is one of those people that you remember from the first time that you see them. Alexis Grace has that "something" that makes you sit up and say, "wow, who is this person?"

That's they way most of us felt when she showed up on American Idol, first as a hopeful from Memphis, then in the finals until the second