Blues ‘enthusiast’ Morgan Freeman’s album covers 100 years of the genre
The “Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience” comes to the Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center at the University of Memphis on Saturday, Sept. 26.
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Memphis Tigers Football Box score: Memphis 27, UNLV 21
NCAA college football box score for the Memphis Tigers 2026 season opener against UNLV.
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State Government Tennessee part of ‘biggest settlement with big tech in world history’
Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to settle claims filed by 47 states, including Tennessee, state attorneys general announced.
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Memphis Tigers Football Former Tiger Calvin Austin to miss NFL season with injury
Former Memphis Tigers and current New York Giants wide receiver Calvin Austin has a torn ACL in his right knee and is expected to miss the season, according to a person with knowledge of the injury.
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Metro Meta reaches $17B settlement with states in landmark trial over teen social media addiction
Tennessee will receive more than $750 million under the settlement, according to a press release from state attorney general Jonathan Skrmetti.
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Golf PGA Tour announces 2028 postseason plans
The PGA Tour is reshaping its postseason for 2028 by ending the year with a Tour Championship played over two weeks at different golf courses involving match play.
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Music Dolly said no to Elvis, but he — and the rest of the world — loved her anyway
Beloved icon Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at the age of 80, never met Elvis Presley, but they nearly collaborated on a version of her famed ballad “I Will Always Love You.”
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Midtown How one gardener’s neighbors shared their land to help her start a flower business
“None of this would be possible without an immensely supportive community,” said Marisa Mender-Franklin.
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Sports College-sports bill doesn’t get vote but does get spot on US Senate’s September calendar
The Protect College Sports Act has been touted as one that would put guardrails around an escalating spending spree in college sports as the industry struggles to adapt to a new model in which teams can pay players.
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July 2026
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Sports SEC Media Days: Ole Miss coach Pete Golding has moved on, calls Lane Kiffin ‘the ex’ who’s always going to come up
“I have no ill will toward Coach Kiffin,” Ole Miss coach Pete Golding said at SEC Media Days.
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Food News Cyclospora has local restaurateurs, home cooks rethinking what’s on the menu
Here’s what local restaurateurs are doing to protect customers from a diarrhea-causing parasite. And what you can do at home to protect yourself.
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Public Safety Family of man shot by Tennessee National Guard demands release of video
Evaniel Johnson said he wants to see if video footage supports the narrative that his grandson, Tyrin Johnson, turned toward U.S. guard members with a gun.
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Sports Former Memphis catcher Hunter Goodman making his case to be an all-star
Hunter Goodman has a sharp eye for the strike zone. That applies not only at the plate, where the Colorado Rockies catcher is crushing pitches of late, but behind it as well.
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June 2026
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North MississippiSupreme Court rejects Trump-backed challenge to Mississippi mail-in ballot law
The outcome spares officials the headache of changing their ballot rules just a few months before the 2026 midterm congressional elections.
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North Mississippi A new law could create a list of immigrants illegally living in Mississippi
The law set to take effect Wednesday is sparking alarm among immigrant advocates, who fear it could become a new tactic to target immigrants.
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Golf PGA Tour approves two-tiered system in 2028 with expanded fields
The new model is set to start in 2028, with several details still to be finalized, including which of the roughly 15 tournaments will be part of the “Championship Series” and the 20 events that will be part of the lesser “Challenger Series.”
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Metro SpaceX buys AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in race for an edge over Anthropic and OpenAI
SpaceX said that Cursor will become a wholly owned subsidiary when the deal closes in the third quarter.
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Sports Ole Miss eliminated by Troy at College World Series
Ole Miss (41-23) went two-games-and-out in its first trip to Charles Schwab Field since winning the national championship in 2022.
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Business SpaceX stock soars in debut and makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire
Musk became the world’s first trillionaire after shares of his rocket company SpaceX, which also operates Memphis data centers, soared in Wall Street’s biggest initial public offering of stock.
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Sports Breaking down the teams playing at the College World Series, including Ole Miss
Here’s a look at the eight teams competing in the College World Series and the schedule of games, which starts Friday at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska.
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May 2026
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Sports Key senators look to break college sports logjam in Congress with bipartisan bill
The senators will introduce a bipartisan bill that would regulate payments to players, limit them to one “free” transfer over their careers and create a “Lane Kiffin Rule” to restrict coach movement during the season.
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Sports Former Redbird Bryan Torres homers in big league debut for Cardinals
Torres had considered retirement. But 11 years after his first minor league appearance, he had his major league debut Saturday with the St. Louis Cardinals at age 28.
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Public SafetyMemphis man granted 1-year stay after his execution was called off
Tony Carruthers was granted a yearlong reprieve after his planned execution was halted on Thursday, May 21.
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Sports 2030 Super Bowl coming to Nashville and Titans’ new enclosed stadium
Only New Orleans and Las Vegas among NFL venues have more hotel rooms within a one-mile radius of the stadium, with the Nashville market area projected to have 658 hotels with more than 80,000 hotel rooms by 2030.
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Elections
ElectionsBlackburn, Rose call to ‘flip Memphis’ in wake of Supreme Court ruling
The calls to eliminate Tennessee’s only Democratic-held U.S. House seat follow Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that changes the Civil Rights Act standards for drawing legislative districts.
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