As numbers soar, ICU capacity hovers near 90%
ICU capacity in the region is at 89%, slightly less than prior days. The Health Department reports there are 48 beds available.
ICU capacity in the region is at 89%, slightly less than prior days. The Health Department reports there are 48 beds available.
It is the second historical marker to be snapped in two from its base in the past month. The rector of Calvary Episcopal Church says the marker, noting the location of Nathan Bedford Forrest's slave market, will be repaired and reinstalled as soon as possible.
Porch & Parlor closed after employees tested positive for COVID-19; owner says he'll reopen when it's safe.
What will happen when some of them test positive for COVID-19? The answers are troubling, and in many cases yet to be determined.
Do the experts wear masks? Eat out? Sanitize their mail and groceries? Let their kids join protests or send them to school? We asked.
Late goal provides morale boost heading into AutoZone Park return.
The restored columns of the circa 1840s Pillow-McIntyre House at Adams and Orleans were reinstalled last week, signalling at turn in fortunes for a sometimes forgotten house with some secrets.
The race pits state Rep. Tom Leatherwood, who his says his experience is needed to help steer Tennessee, against challenger Lee Mills, a former Republican Party chairman who calls his opponent a “career politician.”
When it comes to producing top-tier running backs, the Tigers have put themselves in elite company. In June, 247Sports looked at which programs produced the most draft picks by position over the last five drafts.
The NBA has a tip line that players can use if they see one of their peers breaking the coronavirus safety protocols and Ja Morant wants no part of it; also, SEC footballs coaches mostly decide they'll keep all their money (let others take pay cuts to help their schools); and Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson among WGC-FESJI headliners.
Bree Newsome is the African American woman who scaled the flagpole at the South Carolina capital to bring down the Confederate flag after Dylann Roof killed nine people in Charleston, South Carolina. It is my hope that her name is not relegated to the dustbins of trivial history. Bree Newsome. Hardly trivial.
Who buys the cleaning supplies for a safe return to schools during the pandemic? What happens if students forget their face masks? A parent has these and other questions about the Shelby County Schools plan for fall.
Reactions from across Memphis poured in after the death of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
More than 50 years ago, FedEx began as an idea proposed in a Yale economics paper. Here’s what happened next.
One has an SEC tie-in. The other is a FedEx Cup Playoffs stop. The AutoZone Liberty Bowl and FedEx St. Jude Championship both are working to fend off competitors who want what they have.
For the first time in five years, many Shelby County families are missing out on supplemental grocery cash this summer after Tennessee stopped participating in a federal program that served the entire state.
Plus a list of fireworks shows coming to Memphis’ suburbs to celebrate Fourth of July.
Plus a list of fireworks shows coming to Memphis’ suburbs to celebrate Fourth of July.
“It is hard to understand how defunding scientific research and the arts, and preventing the enrollment of international students, aligns with the administration’s stated goal of combating antisemitism.”
“Here in Memphis, anywhere from seven to 10 people every day at least are arrested by ICE in these quiet operations,” an attorney said.
Renovations to Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium provide fodder for this week’s crossword puzzle.