Made for Memphis: Basketball is home for DJ Jeffries
DJ Jeffries path to Memphis took side trips to Lexington and Starkville, Mississippi, but eventually would land him at the University of Memphis, where he has accepted playing a reserve role.
DJ Jeffries path to Memphis took side trips to Lexington and Starkville, Mississippi, but eventually would land him at the University of Memphis, where he has accepted playing a reserve role.
The Memphis Tigers move up one spot to No. 18 in both rankings after an off week.
Mississippi Boulevard’s men’s ministry annual event raises money for children in need, provides a fun afternoon and plenty of good food for hundreds of folks
In its first year, the park has made some changes to adapt to the way Memphians are using it. It's also a "glimpse of the future" for similar changes along the city's riverfront says Memphis River Parks Partnership president Carol Coletta.
While the First Horizon-Iberiabank merger’s ultimate impact on Memphis isn’t clear yet, First Horizon CEO Bryan Jordan said the goal is to minimize disruptions in the everyday flow of business.
"Memphis Reborn," a new book about Memphis in the 1880s, begins with the city "at its absolute low point."
“We are weighing some sort of legal action in order to put a stop to some of the unconstitutional actions that we’ve seen and heard about,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said.
“For a long time, it’s been our desire to try to halt progression as nearsightedness develops, especially with it being on the rise,” said a local optometrist. It is estimated that more than 50% of the world population may become nearsighted by 2025.
Basketball player availability reports for the American Conference are still in the preliminary phase. Football is currently in its first season of publishing reports two hours before each game.
“What it costs to produce a crop is at record numbers, and the price that (Tennessee farmers) get for that corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton … are almost at near-record lows,” said a Farm Bureau Federation staffer.
DeSoto County District Attorney Matthew Barton said his office is challenging the sentence, arguing sexual battery committed by a person in a position of trust is classified as a violent crime and is specifically ineligible for the house arrest program under Mississippi law.
Klondike Smokey City CDC is working to mow and maintain yards, build a pocket park and turn 150 vacant lots and empty homes into assets in the community.
“That jail was already overcrowded; today it holds 800 people over capacity. Incarceration is not the solution.”
Klondike Smokey City CDC is working to mow and maintain yards, build a pocket park and turn 150 vacant lots and empty homes into assets in the community.