FedEx provided transportation services for Direct Relief's shipment of $11 million in medicine, medical supplies and personal protective equipment to Lebanon.

Dr. Betty Harville was the first Black female optometrist in Tennessee and first Black woman in the U.S. to become a full-time optometry school professor.

About face comes after high-ranking experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, said early results did not prove the therapy works.

Some Memphians say the Post Office is struggling to meet its universal service obligation as COVID-19 pandemic temporarily sidelines postal workers and USPS cuts mail processing capacity.

The Resilience Initiative at Le Bonheur reports depression and mental illness up 250% in family homes since pandemic began; violence in neighborhoods up 350%.

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis has conducted nearly 850 of the plasma transfusions during the pandemic. 

Supporters of a robust U.S. Postal Service turned out Thursday night for an all-night vigil near the Main Post Office in Downtown Memphis.

Carolyn Joynt earned the Bartlett Area Chamber of Commerce award for her work in providing masks for those in need.

A new building permit shows plans for Club Champion Golf to build a putting green and two swing rooms in space at the shopping center at 6450 Poplar. But the company’s plans are not firm yet, a spokeswoman said.

Passenger traffic at Memphis International Airport was about 125,000 in July, down 65% from a year ago but much improved from April when the pandemic crippled air travel.

The larger of the two NIH grants will fund the study of kidney injury in newborns. Much of the kidney failure people experience in midlife is caused by injuries when they were infants, research has shown.

Masking and social distancing greatly damped flu in the Southern Hemisphere over the summer. But it also means there was little to go on in what the Northern Hemisphere flu vaccine should include.

Emmanuel Tuombe grew up in Rwanda, a country of about 13 million people located in East Africa. In 2015, Tuombe opened an engineering and construction firm in Memphis, about 8,000 miles away from his native county.

 XPO Logistics agreed to temporarily pull its application for tax incentives after U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen wrote to EDGE asking that deliberations be delayed because of controversy over previous XPO operations in Memphis.

Chick-fil-A on Thursday, Aug. 20, will open a restaurant inside the UTHSC Food Court at 920 Madison.

Environmental advocates including Protect Our Aquifer have sued TVA, saying new agreements for power distributors weren't properly reviewed for environmental impacts before they were put in place in 2019.

Crosstown Concourse officials ask people to post on social media their favorite photo they took at the "vertical urban village."

Start Co. and developers of The Walk on Union describe Catalyst30 as a sped-up effort to achieve in 10 years what normally would take 20 years: Make Memphis a "digital city."

The proposed Delivering for America Act would turn back the clock to Jan. 1, 2020 on changes that some critics contend are diluting U.S. Postal Service delivery results.

FedEx will charge more for residential deliveries from November into January as it handles holiday shipping volume amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.

With most businesses struggling this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bank of Bartlett has served as a lifeline for more than 1,500 businesses and 10,600 employees.

The Southaven Planning Commission has approved the nearly 10-acre site plan for 5665 Airways; the building design is still being revised.

Williams-Sonoma is hiring 200 for Memphis area distribution facilities and says it could need to add as many as 3,000 seasonal workers for the 2020 peak.

The Daily Memphian was recently given one last tour of the property. 

The 1 million-square-foot facility is one of six that Amazon has either opened or will soon open in the Memphis area.