“Stay true to what you do and try not to worry about the outside factors,” Tigers defensive line coach Kyle Pope said. 

All the property within the vast, old Memphis Army Distribution Depot has been sold to private owners, so the public board overseeing the site was to have been dissolved Wednesday. But neighbors’ concerns delayed the action. 

The board also approved zoning variances for a Georgia-based developer that plans to build affordable housing complexes in the North Poplar neighborhood near Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. 

Collierville’s mayor and aldermen took steps towards its next fire station and operating its own ambulance service.

Ridgeway Trace shopping center operates at a prime junction for Memphis retail: Interstate 240 and Poplar. The property changed hands this week.

Though the school announced Wednesday it would be adding new outdoor seating options for the upcoming season, there’s a much larger vision.

Eastbound traffic will resume by Monday, Aug. 2, and westbound lanes will reopen Friday, Aug. 6. Crews will continue some work on the Hernando DeSoto Bridge even after the span across the Mississippi River resumes.

As of 5 p.m. July 21, there were 162 COVID-19 positive people in area hospital beds.

Robert Machen has been named chief information officer for Prospero Health, which runs its operational headquarters in Memphis.

The National Civil Rights Museum plans to mark its 30th anniversary in late September with a “community celebration.”

As the Tigers experienced last season, a COVID outbreak can potentially setback a season.

Jennifer Biggs: “It’s the best time of the year to eat local, we talk about tomato pies, quiche, beer — and this: Do grownups eat cereal?”