Memphis second grader dies after collapsing on school playground
Memphis Police officers are investigating the 8-year-old’s death, but said Monday afternoon “there were no immediate signs of foul play.”
Memphis Police officers are investigating the 8-year-old’s death, but said Monday afternoon “there were no immediate signs of foul play.”
The Recording Academy also recently announced that Cordova High School choral director Adrian L. Maclin was selected to receive the organization’s 2025 Music Educator of the Year award.
The Memphis City Council will return to the proposed city sale of land to a subsidiary of xAI, and up for a vote Tuesday, Feb. 18, is a $10.5 million budget amendment, including $5 million in emergency funding for MATA.
Another round of winter weather is headed for the Mid-South Tuesday night, which will be followed by an Arctic blast that will keep temperatures below freezing for the remainder of the week.
The Tigers fell in the AP Top 25 for the first time since the Jan. 20 edition of the poll.
The Front Porch will be an interfaith center at Second Baptist Church.
When immigrants are detained in Memphis, they are typically sent to a detainment facility in Louisiana quickly afterward. From there, the outcomes can range from swift deportation to, eventually, legal residence in the United States.
The 2025-26 season includes well-known musicals, family favorites and a classic Shakespearean tragedy.
Chartered in 1961, Shelby County Federal Credit Union serves 10,000 local members in two counties.
The Memphis Amateur Sports Hall of Fame will induct its 14-member Class of 2024 on Monday, March 17.
At Hard Times Deli, from the local trio behind the Secret Smash Society, the sandwiches are considered works of art.
”We try to keep predator and prey separated,” a chief deputy said during a recent media tour inside the jail.
“The former Defensive Player of the Year blocked two shots. He said before the game he was going to defend the full length of the court, then made good on that promise.”
Here are the top 50 scoring leaders for boys and girls TSSAA schools in the Memphis area.
Standouts from Arlington, Collierville, Memphis Business Academy, Middle College and St. Benedict are up for consideration this week.
Standouts from Bartlett, Fairley, Fayette-Ware, Southwind and Whitehaven are up for consideration.
On Sunday, the No. 14 Tigers didn’t control what they could control, falling in a somewhat surprising 84-79 overtime road loss to Wichita State.
Whitney Hardy, who tried to levitate her skateboard at age 7, knows U of M has “the tools, the resources, the mentorship, the partners on campus” for today’s would-be innovators. She shows them how to navigate through to their dreams.
County officials aren’t putting any dollar figures to the deficit they expect when County Mayor Lee Harris presents his budget proposal in late April. But it’s the talk of the County Commission’s early budget hearings.
Are you ready for it? Here are today’s sudokus.
This week’s jigsaw features a photo from the Memphis Tigers baseball team’s win.
“All we have is our voice, and you’ve restricted that by saying, ... ‘We don’t want to hear your voice,’” state Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, said during a Jan. 14 rules committee hearing on bill limitations.
Ashley McDurmon might have become the CEO and president of Orion Federal Credit Union in January, but her understanding of its culture dates back more than a decade.
Jaren Jackson Jr. impressed two kid reporters from ESPN by FaceTiming Jesser, a YouTube star who makes basketball content with more than 25 million subscribers.
One of the new owners said the family’s priorities going forward come down to three things: “back to the basics, growth mentality and digitize everything.”
As visitors return to Oaklawn Garden in Germantown with warmer weather and blossoming flowers in spring, they’ll notice a vibrant addition to the Cloyes house that sits on the grounds.
“The way that she makes dance, it just kind of comes out of her,” Ballet Memphis’ artistic director said of Emilia Sandoval, who choreographed her third commission for the company.
“Holding God’s transcendence and his immanence in view at the same time will not make me perfect, but it will change how I handle my own wrongdoing, as well as how I love God and others...”
Adeze Wilford is the Memphis Brooks Museum’s new curator of African American art and art of the African Diaspora. She joined Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of “The Sidebar.”
News of a candy manufacturer’s expansion in Tipton County inspired this week’s crossword puzzle.