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Longtime journalist Jane Roberts is a Minnesotan by birth and a Memphian by choice. She's lived and reported in the city more than two decades. She covers business news and features for The Daily Memphian.
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Chris Ivie expects the project to set standards for how temporary schools are built in an age of escalating weather disasters — the schools were destroyed by a March 31 tornado.
“It’s gotten to be such a big deal where we’re going to put it that we’ve decided to put it somewhere else,” said Joe Lowery, market general manager for owner Northstar Memorial Group.
Memphis-based Collage Dance is one of the largest Black-led performing arts organizations in the South.
It spawned careers, including that of a young Cybill Shepherd in 1968 when she was a model in Hunter’s catalog; employed a-yet-undiscovered Charley Pride and created advertising history in the energy-crisis-prone ‘70s.
Ray Lepone, who’s leaving the DA’s office to work for Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, says for decades the strength demonstrated by crime victims and their families has inspired him to fight for justice.
To capitalize on foot traffic in Overton Square, Lucyja Hygge will be open until 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
Dr. Scott Strome was the face of much of UTHSC’s community outreach during the pandemic, including the large public testing site it created and staffed at Tiger Lane.
The Salvation Army shelter for women and children on Jackson is operating below capacity and turning people away because it cannot hire or retain staff.
After dedicating 42 years to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, where he once saved someone from the edge of a Downtown building, Claude Robinson retires.
The ratings are the first full month look at the business decision that Dan Barron, Audacy senior vice president and market manager, admits was met enormous skepticism.
“She was the first person that reviewed Iris. That review was the beginning of us really being able to provide people with a space to earn a living,” Kelly English said.
Library of Things adds experiences, fun list of resources available with library card — starting with kits for camping, movie nights and karaoke.
Belz graduated from White Station High School in 1960. His classmates voted him most witty.
Undergraduate enrollment at the University of Memphis, for example, had fallen about 11% between 2016 and last fall when it reported having 14,366 students.
This is second satellite Crone has opened. The first was St. Louis in 2022.
She’s also the third executive in three years, trying to right a ship that listed seriously in the pandemic when musicians were largely quiet.
Lighting and surveillance improvements are the first phase of a $5 million investment to improve security on campus and surrounding area.
“There’s no room for hate. Life’s too short. Hate only brings more problems to you,” said Fabiola Francis.
What happened in early September 2022 still feels startlingly raw and for many, it has become the new measure of the sense of peril.
“We just traded lines until the song got written,” Keith Sykes said.
With the construction site for Ford’s BlueOval City only 13 minutes away, the diocese is now preparing for an onslaught of development in the area.
The tour is designed to showcase the stories enshrined at Elmwood. In the case of Robert Church and Boss Crump, it shows the vast difference in lives of two men from Holly Springs, Miss.
One of the biggest issues in the mayoral campaign is how candidates intend to fight crime, including whether they will maintain current strategies.
Plaintiffs here include three women who had high-risk pregnancies and were denied abortions at home.
“Whether it results in a conviction or not, that record can go with you to your grave unless you proactively get it expunged, if you’re eligible to do that. Many, many people are not,” said Josh Spickler, head of Just City.