Phil Donahue, pioneer of daytime talk shows, dies at 88
Donahue lived in New York with his wife, actress Marlo Thomas, daughter of Danny Thomas, founder of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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Sports Tennessee reaches deal with Pilot to preserve name of Neyland Stadium
Tennessee athletic director Danny White said the partnership could be described as a naming rights deal without a name change, protecting the traditional name of Tennessee’s 101,915-seat stadium.
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Sports Mississippi high jumper wins Olympic silver medal in Paris
Shelby McEwen of Abbeville, Mississippi and world indoor champion Hamish Kerr of New Zealand battled in a jump off for the high jump title at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
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High School Sports Former Lausanne star runs for 2 touchdowns in NFL exhibition game
Eric Gray, who played college football at Tennessee and Oklahoma, scored on runs of 1 and 48 in the Giants’ NFL exhibition win over the Lions.
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Business WK Kellogg plans to downsize Memphis plant
The company will scale back production at its Memphis facility off of Airways Boulevard starting next year.
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Memphis Grizzlies Spain eliminated by Canada in Olympic men’s basketball
Memphis Grizzlies forward Santi Aldama scores 7 points and adds 11 rebounds in Friday’s Olympic men’s basketball game against Canada.
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Elections Gloria Johnson, ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat, wins primary, will face GOP US Sen. Marsha Blackburn
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee state Rep. Gloria Johnson has won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and will face off against Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn in November, pitting a survivor of a Republican-led expulsion effort over a gun control protest against a close ally of former President Donald Trump.
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July 2024
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Memphis Grizzlies Santi Aldama leads Spain to victory over Greece in Olympic action
The Memphis Grizzlies forward had 19 points and 12 rebounds.
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State Government Senate passes bill to protect kids online
“The message we are sending to big tech is that kids are not your product,” Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said at a news conference as the Senate passed the bill. “Kids are not your profit source.” She wrote the bill with Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
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Germantown Germantown triathlete forced to wait on Olympic dream
Seth Rider of Germantown will have to wait one more day to compete in the Olympics. The men’s triathlon has been postponed over concerns about water quality in Paris' Seine River, where the swimming portion of the race was supposed to take place.
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Memphis Grizzlies 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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June 2024
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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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