“It’s really like being in a movie,” said mom Ellen Shapiro Celosky. “I want to pinch myself sometimes because it really happened. I really have my own family, and it’s even better than I thought it could be.”

Seventeen years ago, Denise Suthoff realized that her house was a perfect wedding venue. She opened Heartwood Hall to weddings first and then added Cedar Hall to accommodate the business pouring in. 

The strange answer came from Angela Thomas, ex-wife of former County Commissioner Chris Thomas, who joined her former husband, daughter and two other family members as contestants on the nationally syndicated game show hosted by comedian Steve Harvey.

If the UT board of trustees also approves the college’s budget next month, all of UTHSC’s students would see a 2.9% tuition increase in the fall. 

Lauren Ready, an Iowa native who first landed in Memphis working in television news, launched Forever Ready Productions in 2014 while still working at Action News 5 (WMC-TV). Her clientele grew from there.

Dr. Scott Morris, a physician and Methodist minister, will step down as CEO of Church Health, the clinic he founded in 1987 that is today the largest faith-based, privately funded health clinic in the United States. 

The Land Use Control Board approved a 124-room extended stay hotel, more homes for Waverly Plantation in Millington and a new 14,000-square-foot mixed-use development in Cordova. 

Stryker Corp. gathered some of its ankle-replacement patients at its Arlington campus to get feedback from those who have benefitted from the procedure.

The company, which has been under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections since last year, is still struggling to pay off its creditors. 

The Stax Music Academy Band belted out a rousing rendition of the Bar-Kays’ “Soulfinger” as hundreds of guests gathered on Le Bonheur’s front lawn Wednesday, May 8. 

Future businesses like BlueOval and accompanying industry will provide opportunities for the local workforce, according to an executive with the Greater Memphis Chamber.

According to one analyst, it may make more sense for IP to explore selling its fluff pulp business to Suzano instead of the entire company. 

The plane, a Boeing 767, bumped in on the underside of its nose after the back wheels touched down.

A Cordova strip mall is 100% leased, Boutique Magnolia is relocating to a bigger space in The Shops of Wolflake in Bartlett and two multifamily buildings have been sold.

The Campbell Companies, ServisFirst Bank, Saint Francis Medical Partners and Rhodes College’s Office of Academic Affairs announce promotions and additions. 

Deal could be worth $15 billion, unnamed sources say.

Through the ShelbyCares Neighborhood Health Club program, more than 5,300 people have signed up for free workouts at neighborhood gyms, but more than 80% of them are women. 

The hospital will build algorithms to measure tumors, and then teach the system to simultaneously label where they are located, standardizing the host of ways physicians describe where tumors are located.

As more data centers are built in the U.S., they’re consuming more energy. And in Shelby County, RWE’s Graceland Solar project unwittingly became a case study for how new facilities might be powered.

While increased interest rates and rising cost of materials have slowed the housing market, things could improve by the end of this year or the first of 2025.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, UTHSC’s lab provided testing for Memphians across the city, from the Memphis Grizzlies to the city’s homeless community, and analyzed tests from the drive-thru testing site at Tiger Lane. 

“It could be as simple as in the evening, ‘Hey, can you just check and make sure that Mama has dinner and that the phone is beside the bed, plugged in and charging.’”

As Ford Motor Co. inches closer to the 2025 opening of its BlueOval City megasite, the company’s philanthropic arm is investing in the West Tennessee communities on which Ford will rely for its workforce. 

Centennial Place Shopping Center is up for sale, Trinity Ridge Business Center and Clark Tower have new tenants and Mi Escuelita doubles its space. 

The University of Memphis College of Education and Monogram Foods announce new positions.