Supreme Court sides with Starbucks in Memphis 7 case
The Supreme Court on Thursday made it harder for the federal government to protect workers’ jobs when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns.
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Sports College World Series might offer view of future with only SEC, ACC teams
The CWS opens Friday, and for the first time since the event expanded to eight teams in 1950, only two conferences will be represented on the college game’s biggest stage.
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Memphis Grizzlies Jerry West, a 3-time Hall of Fame selection and the NBA logo, dies at 86
West worked in the front office of the Memphis Grizzlies from 2002-2007. He was also general manager of eight NBA championship teams with the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Metro The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader’s family says
Lawson organized the sanitation workers strike that fatefully drew Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis. Lawson said he was at first paralyzed and forever saddened by King’s assassination.
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Sports Tennessee Vols hit seven home runs, advance to College World Series
Tennessee (55-12) advances to the College World Series for the second straight season and seventh time overall.
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Sports Evansville beats Tennessee 10-8 to stay alive at Knoxville Super Regional
Kip Fougerousse, Cal McInnis and Brendan Hord each hit a home run to help Evansville beat No. 1 national-seed Tennessee 10-8 to avoid elimination at the best-of-three Knoxville Super Regional.
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Sports Ole Miss sprinter dominates, Arkansas takes team crown at NCAA track championships
McKenzie Long of Ole Miss captured titles in three events. Also, a former Whitehaven High School star earns All-American honors in men’s championships.
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Sports UT baseball wins super regional game 1 against Evansville
The University of Tennessee Volunteer (54-11), playing in the university’s fourth consecutive super regional, can advance to the College World Series with a victory over Evansville (38-25) on Saturday.
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Public Safety Memphis veteran charged with murder may have targeted others
Memphis police are investigating whether a U.S. Army veteran charged with killing a homeless man has targeted other homeless people in the city, a spokesperson said.
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Sports Expanded College Football Playoff will begin with 1st-round game Dec. 20
The first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff will kick off with a first-round game Dec. 20 and conclude with the title game one month later in Atlanta.
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Sports Nation’s dominant program post-COVID, the Tennessee Vols seeking elusive title
The Vols are trying to slug their way to two more victories to reach a third College World Series in four years and second straight.
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Sports Tennessee will host Evansville; full super regionals schedule
The best-of-three super regionals open Friday and Saturday. The eight winners advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, beginning June 14.
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Sports Tennessee eliminates Southern Miss, advances to super regionals
Tennessee advances to the super regionals and will face Evansville, with the series beginning Friday or Saturday in Knoxville.
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Transportation & Logistics FedEx will transport National Zoo arrivals by ‘Panda Express’
Memphis-based FedEx will transport the giant pandas from China to Washington by the end of the year via a FedEx Express Boeing 777-Freighter, known as the FedEx Panda Express.
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Sports Mississippi State eliminated by Virginia in regional
The Bulldogs' 2024 season comes to an end with a loss to Virginia in Charlottesville Regional.
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Sports Mississippi State falls 5-4 to Virginia in NCAA baseball regional
Virginia scores game-winning run in the bottom of the ninth. Mississippi State plays St. John’s Sunday in an elimination game in the Charlottesville Regional.
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Sports Mississippi State wins on three-run walk-off home run
The Bulldogs (39-21) will take on Virginia, which advanced by beating Pennsylvania earlier in the day.
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Sports Amick belts three-run home run, Tennessee tops Northern Kentucky
No. 1 overall seed Tennessee will play Indiana Saturday at 6 p.m. CT in Knoxville.
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State Government Federal government, states sue Ticketmaster over alleged monopoly
Around 70% of tickets for major concert venues in the U.S. are sold through Ticketmaster, according to data in a federal lawsuit filed by consumers in 2022. The company owns or controls more than 265 of North America’s concert venues.
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Arlington UVA to pay $9M for shooting that killed 3, including 1 from Arlington High
The school in Charlottesville will pay $2 million each to the families of the three students, including former Arlington High football player Devin Chandler who died.
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Sports SEC gathers to sort through consequences of settlement, comes away with more questions than answers
Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin said college football is awkwardly stuck between two worlds: Trending toward professionalism but still rooted in a model tied to higher education.
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Sports SEC’s 8- or 9-game conference schedule debate on hold
After much discussion last year, the SEC locked in a short-term solution by agreeing to go with eight games for this season and next, but leaving open the possibility to change it in 2026.
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Metro New York jury finds Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts
Donald Trump has been convicted in his New York hush money trial, a landmark jury verdict making him the first former American president to be found guilty of felony crimes in the nation’s nearly 250-year history.
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Sports MLB has new career, season batting leader after Negro Leagues statistics incorporated
With the Negro leagues' statistics added to Major League Baseball, Gibson’s .372 batting average surpassed Ty Cobb’s .367. At age 18, Gibson played his first professional game for the Memphis Red Sox in 1930.
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Sports Roster sizes, the future of walk-ons and other topics on minds of SEC’s football coaches
Southeastern Conference football coaches are bracing for the impact of a potential downsizing of rosters around the NCAA.
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