Spain falls to Australia despite 27 points from Santi Aldama
Grizzlies forward makes 6-of-8 3-pointers to lead Spain in scoring in its Olympic opener.
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State GovernmentPresident Joe Biden drops out of the 2024 race
Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for president on Sunday, July 21, ending his bid for reelection.
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Germantown Mississippi’s new Episcopal bishop has Memphis ties
The Rev. Dorothy Sanders Wells, former rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Germantown, is a graduate of Rhodes College. She earned a law degree from the University of Memphis and practiced law for 18 years before attending Memphis Theological Seminary and becoming a priest.
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State Government Federal appeals court dismisses lawsuit over Tennessee’s anti-drag show ban
The court found that Friends of George’s was not at risk of violating the 2023 law because its performances were not “harmful to minors.”
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Sports SEC Notebook: Coaching changes put strain on Mississippi State Bulldogs
After the sudden death of Bulldogs coach Mike Leach in December 2022, defensive coordinator Zac Arnett was promoted to replace Leach and lasted just one season before Jeff Lebby was hired away from Oklahoma.
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Sports 5-star potential: Oklahoma QB Jackson Arnold and Tennessee QB Nico Iamaleava are SEC wild cards
The two first-year starters and former five-star recruits have the potential to turn their teams into College Football Playoff contenders.
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Sports Ole Miss enters 2024 trying to ignore the hype; LSU looks to defy expectations again
Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin learned a lot from Nick Saban — especially about the dangers of preseason praise and high expectations being placed upon a team by fans and media.
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Sports SEC Commissioner: ‘Time to update your expectations for what college athletics can be’
Greg Sankey added that while he’s paying attention to litigation in the ACC involving Florida State and Clemson, the SEC is focused on its 16 schools.
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Metro Local leaders react to deadly shooting at Trump rally
Former President Donald Trump was bloodied, but said he was “fine” Saturday after the most serious attempt to assassinate a president or presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981. The attack at a Pennsylvania political rally left at least two people dead and two critically injured.
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Performing Arts Memphis native, Shannen Doherty, ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ star, dies at 53
A native of Memphis, Doherty moved to Los Angeles with her family at age 7 and, within a few years, became an actor.
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Public Safety Memphis man now charged with attacking two homeless men in recent months
A U.S. Army veteran charged with fatally shooting a homeless man has also been accused of attacking another homeless person with a knife in Downtown Memphis, court documents show.
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MetroMid-South will likely feel impact of Beryl
National Weather Service Memphis made a statement on how Hurricane Beryl may affect to the Mid-South — and when.
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Sports Tennessee’s early eruption highlighted by Amick’s grand slam sends Vols past Indiana
The Volunteers — with the highest win total in the country — finished 13 for 39 at the plate and drew 11 walks.
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Sports Tennessee Vols win first College World Series in tense finale
Christian Moore hit a leadoff homer, Dylan Dreiling went deep for the third time in three games and Tennessee won its first national championship in baseball with a 6-5 victory over Texas A&M in Game 3 of the College World Series finals.
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State Government Supreme Court will take up Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors
The case before the high court involves a law in Tennessee that restricts puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors.
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Sports Texas A&M defeats Tennessee in Game 1 of College World Series finals
The Vols, the nation’s most prolific home-run hitting team in three decades, fell to the Aggies in the College World Series finals opener Saturday night.
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Sports Vols force College World Series finals to a third game with win over Aggies
Tennessee lost the finals opener Saturday, but hasn’t dropped consecutive games since March 16-17 at Alabama. They hope to become the first No. 1 national seed to win the national title since Miami in 1999.
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Sports Vols make ‘astonishing’ run at long-standing home run mark
The 1997 LSU Tigers slugged 188 home runs in 70 games. No team had come close to approaching 188 until this year’s Volunteers, who have 178 in 70 games heading into Game 1 of the best-of-three College World Series finals against Texas A&M.
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Sports Tennessee beats Florida State to reach CWS finals
The Volunteers will play another SEC team, Texas A&M, in the three-game championship series beginning Saturday.
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Memphis Grizzlies Dalton Knecht’s basketball journey leads to a projected NBA lottery pick
Dalton Knecht has always carried a chip on his shoulder throughout his multi-school basketball journey. Feeling overlooked has powered him along his Northeastern Junior College, Northern Colorado and Tennessee stops.
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Sports Willie Mays, Giants’ electrifying ‘Say Hey Kid,’ has died at 93
In 2011 Mays was honored by the Memphis Grizzlies and he received the National Civil Rights Museum Sports Legacy Award during halftime of the team’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day game with the Chicago Bulls.
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Metro Juneteenth explained: What is it and how should it be celebrated?
Juneteenth has also been called Freedom Day, Emancipation Day, Black Fourth of July and second Independence Day, among others. Here’s the history of the holiday.
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Sports MLB switching to challenge system full-time for robot umpires experiment
Baseball’s top minor leagues, including the International League the Memphis Redbirds play in, are switching to a challenge system full-time for their test of robot umpires.
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Music Singer Justin Timberlake charged with DWI, released from custody
Memphis-area native and Grammy Award-winning Justin Timberlake was arrested while driving on New York’s Long Island.
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Sports Gabrielle Rose proves age is just a number as she competes in US swim trials at 46
At the age of 46, Rose is by far the oldest athlete at the meet — earning her place two decades removed from her last appearance.
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