Alden Investment Group recently announced a promotion. 

Dr. Michael Hocker will replace Dr. G. Nicholas Verne, a gastroenterologist and physician scientist who has served as UTHSC College of Medicine interim dean since Dr. Scott Strome resigned from his position in 2023. 

First Horizon Foundation’s $1 million donation to Baptist Health Sciences University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, the first school of its kind in West Tennessee and the second in the state. 

Dr. Bret Mettler is a new leader at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital’s growing Heart Institute, which boasts a slew of recently recruited pediatric cardiologists and heart surgeons from around the country.

When Complete Care Family Psychiatry opened, Dr. Annie Gadiparthi wanted to offer unique care based on clinical shifts. Her own experiences fueled her passion.

Harmony at Morning Grove is accepting applications for the 55-and-older community that includes 196 units in a four-story building at 9525 U.S. 64.

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Plus, four new apartment buildings are slated for the Medical District along Poplar Avenue and MLGW’s North Service Center facility is expanding. 

Ransom will sign off for the last time at ABC24 on Wednesday, March 19, capping a career in broadcast journalism here that started in 1994.

A Shelby Drive industrial building will be auctioned off, an insurance agency is expanding to East Memphis and a wholesaler moved to Pleasant View Road. 

Southwest Tennessee Community College, Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett and US Biologic announce promotions and additions. 

Former U of M professor Melissa Bamford is known for her high-energy classes, particularly those she taught at the Kroc, and she’s bringing that energy to a new studio. 

Starting May 8, Spirit Airlines will offer direct flights between Memphis International Airport and Detroit Metro Airport four days a week: Sunday, Monday, Thursday and Friday. 

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Allegiant to pause flights from Memphis to Los Angeles

The airline is set to close its base of operations at Los Angeles International Airport, leaving the Memphis airport with one less flight to LAX. 

The Shelby County Health Department is one of 550 local health departments nationwide earned the national recognition.

Frigid February weather stalled real estate sales, Memphis Area Association of Realtors’ President Greg Renfrow said. But a bounce back could be just around the corner. 

Paralyzed Veterans of America plans to use the incoming community center for barbecues, tournaments and recognition. 

Consumers pull more Better Business Bureau reports on roofers than other kinds of businesses. Some who don’t later wish they had.

A couple of new-home developments in Lakeland and Arlington have run into unexpected delays that are setting back completion by more than a year.

In all, nearly one-third of MATA buses weren’t showing up where or when they were scheduled to.

Hera Health Solutions, a Memphis company specializing in biodegradable implants that deliver medications to patients, has scored a deal with the Department of Defense. 

While most Memphians were still oblivious to a virus spreading overseas, those charged with keeping the Bluff City safe were already alarmed in January 2020.

Baptist employee Marilyn Davis was the area’s first-known COVID-19 patient, collapsing at work on her way to the ER: “I was so sick, and I really thought I was going to die.”

The company, with brands including Spam, Skippy, Applegate and Planters, will open a 280,000-square-foot facility at 8690 Tulane Road.

It sits a few hundred yards from the Tennessee Valley Authority Southaven Combined Cycle Plant. The plant will provide a power source for the energy-intensive data center.