Kenneth Robinson will step down from his role leading United Way of the Mid-South, an organization that supports nonprofits through grant-making focused on addressing poverty.

The United Warehouse property is for sale, the Poplar Towers office building is being sold and a Dollar General Market is opening on Bellevue Boulevard. 

Obsidian Public Relations and Regional One Health Foundation announce a promotion and addition. 

The company returned nearly $4 billion to stockholders as it met its goal to trim $1.8 billion in operating expenses, including $500 million in the Express division.

The Hooters at 7535 Winchester Road could be a victim of the chain’s national closures.

The City of Memphis will build a $25 million 21-acre solar photovoltaic system and emergency battery storage backup adjacent to the T.E. Maxson Wastewater Treatment Facility. 

Since the abortion ban, more than 10,000 individuals have left Tennessee to get abortions. “This is impacting our state in all sorts of ways,” said Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi. 

For the past five years, she has served as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Orion, the Mid-South’s largest credit union with 70,000 members and more than $1.2 billion in assets. 

At some point — no one really knows when — the saint’s relic made its way to Memphis as a donation to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and has been in storage on its campus for 62 years. 

A person familiar with the matter told The Daily Memphian that xAI will not pursue tax incentives for the supercomputer it’s building in Memphis.

A parent who dropped a son off last week for a flight to boot camp was grateful for officer Craig Elliott’s pep talk, and typed it all out in an email to airport authorities. 

 Another Raising Cane’s is coming to Memphis, plus hip-hop-inspired cookie franchise Cookie Plug and smoothie shop Groovy Gratitude are now open.

Sisters and co-owners Kristen and Lindsey Archer, who opened their storefront at 65 Monroe Ave. last fall, said brick-and-mortar shop sales accounted for just 13% of their total income over the past year. 

The Ronna K. Newburger Adult Day Center offers daytime social interaction for older adults through activities such as games, yoga, art and music therapy and an outdoor garden. 

It takes lots of skills to make a new energy drink; for this crew, interesting new flavor profiles sprouted from plastic cups and pipettes. 

The BlueOval Good Neighbors Coalition wants a legally binding community development agreement to protect West Tennessee’s historically Black communities. 

Youth Villages and the University of Memphis announce promotions.

At the end of the golf tournament, a wish is granted and this year’s wish went to a 12-year-old girl from Bradford, Arkansas.

In the Mid-South, 40% of patients aren’t tested because doctors and hospitals aren’t on board, according to research in a national journal. 

In recent years, 11 new businesses opened in the Memphis Medical District, and the area has seen community engagement in a corridor that was overlooked for decades. And Memphians aren’t the only ones to notice.

The supercomputer intended to power and do computations for Grok, the chatbot run by xAI’s artificial intelligence, could be up and running as early as August, a source familiar with the matter told The Daily Memphian.

After 12 years, Overton Park Conservancy executive director Tina Sullivan is ready to step down and she’s confident the green space will endure and thrive under the next generation of leadership.

Arlington’s growth, with a slight nod to the proposed BlueOval City plant, has nudged the project higher on the TDOT priority list. Mayor Mike Wissman said the town has sought the interchange work for years.

The Cheesecake Factory, a plum for Memphis when it arrived in 2015, is closing its only area store, which employs 75 to 100 people in full- and part-time jobs.

It’s one of 150 stores across the nation for sale; two brokerage houses are managing the listings.