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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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When he started flying at FedEx in 1983, Albert Glenn was one of eight Black pilots in the ranks. He’s spent the rest of his life raising money and starting training programs to help Black students interested in aviation.
Throw the beads! The flight will operate daily from the end of February to the beginning of March 2025.
The 74,000-square-foot travel center, one of the largest in the region, is set to bring about 225 jobs to the area.
Avron B. Fogelman’s gift is the single largest gift to the business college and among the largest to the campus as a whole.
The Memphis-based company’s announcement of the closing in South Carolina is in addition to previous layoff announcements.
The facility is large enough to sort 56,000 packages an hour.
At Whitehaven Community Center, a steady patter of foot traffic was in and out around 8 a.m.
There were lots of cars around 7:15 a.m. Tuesday at the Glenview Community Center, where people were streaming in after the night shift and before the day shift.
The United States is Canada’s largest trade partner. Ships loaded with containers for now are waiting offshore.
The new sorting technology is expected to end nights at the hub when the bottom falls out due to weather, outages or package spikes.
Buc-ee’s are big, and they’re getting bigger.
Buc-ee’s are big, and they’re getting bigger.
“He’s here to fundamentally rework IP and make it successful,” a financial executive said about CEO Andy Silvernail.
Major importers in Memphis rely on the Canadian National Railway’s service from Prince Rupert because that route shaves 500 miles off the sail time from key Asian harbors.
The fdx.com commerce platform offers merchants more insight into their logistics, with an eye to helping brick-and-mortar businesses compete with Amazon.
Marine biologist James McClintock and Rev. John Burruss will share insights from Antarctica in a free lecture today at Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.
The cuts this week are likely the result of the company’s massive work to merge its Express, Ground and FedEx Services divisions.
Moderator Michael LaRosa’s latest book, cowritten with a Memphis attorney, will be released the same day.
She was arrested numerous times for participating in sit-ins, starting in March 1960 when she and others demanded access to library books.
As of last year, the University of Memphis’ dual-enrollment program is the largest in the state, serving nearly 3,000 teens in 60 schools in Shelby County.
The whole project from bag to distribution will be done in one morning; more than 100 people are needed.
Seeing clusters of ladybugs everywhere early this week? Here’s why.