Spell Restaurant Group has sold both Babalu locations to longtime employee Jesse Robertson. 

The trucks are scheduled to be delivered to FedEx by the end of 2027 and are expected to last 20 years.

The Columbus, Ohio-based bank is investing in local affordable housing and career training through partnerships with local organizations like United Housing and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis.

North Mississippi continues to see renewed large-scale industrial activity — this time with a California-based yoga brand. Plus, MVP3 is getting a Downtown space on Front Street. 

Also, a college adds new faculty, an architecture firm grows, a top real estate agent joins a storied firm and a local grocer adds to its leadership.

Shareholders voted down a request for a report on the risks of shipping abortion drugs. FedEx said it’s a carrier, not a distributor.

U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker has announced millions in federal funding for road improvements in DeSoto County.

Jeff Dawson, operating as Nacks Properties LLC, bought the Poplar Avenue building currently home to Miestro, a home theater systems store, for $750,000.

Chattanooga and Nashville — but not Memphis — sued to stop the state from taking over metro airport boards, allowing them to be replaced with mostly state-appointed officials.

The giant, blue building was bought by a retailer.

Residents had mixed feelings about both selling their home to SpaceXAI and the noise its power plant creates.

Assessor Javier Bailey Sr. says empty Downtown office towers and lost tourism spending are shrinking the county’s tax base. He is planning a November summit to build a five-year strategy.

The City of Millington is partnering with Alliance Healthcare to address mental health issues, a problem that has risen after several teen suicides at the city’s high school.

FedEx flew 6-year-old Ping Ping and 5-year-old female Fu Shuang nearly 8,000 miles to their new home at Zoo Atlanta.

The winning artwork will appear on the 2027-28 Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp. Sadly, no readers met Geoff Calkins' challenge to predict the winner.

Latasha Peeples, raised in a motel by a grandmother who gave what she could, started a donation drive in 2022 that now gives equipment to up to 100 kids a year. This year’s drive is Oct. 3.

For Adam Queen, growing plants is both a hobby and a career.

The building, owned by the same family since 1918, will have three boxcar-style kitchens, a bar, a stage and a planned video game room.

Duncan watched his father survive prostate cancer and saw a close friend lose his dad to it. Then came his own diagnosis in January.

“Take a honky-tonk, sweep up all the sawdust, replace a couple of shots with a couple of glasses of wine, with some cool Memphis music and Western memorabilia,” said one of the three owners. 

SpaceXAI offers to buy real estate from some Southaven residents if they pledge not to join a class-action lawsuit filed in June over the company’s North Mississippi power plant.

Two women are teaming up on an affordable-housing development in North Memphis, another move in the momentum to bring more new homes to the city.

“Because of the energy infrastructure that (Elon Musk is) getting, not just from Tennessee but also from Mississippi, you could see the greatest boom since FedEx in this town. You need to double down here.”

Starbucks is planning to close about 1% of its 18,000 North America locations. 

A Texas-based company alleges SpaceXAI contractors never paid for its services, marking the third lien against the artificial intelligence company this year.