Four days after a DeSoto County couple installed a Ring system, their 8-year old daughter heard a man talking in her bedroom. The father disabled the system to stop the harassment and the couple is now dealing with their kids’ trauma.

Code Crew's co-founder says bringing tech programs to young children will help to diversify STEM demographics.

Since 2015, the FDA has sent warning letters to at least 23 companies about claims regarding their products. The FTC co-signed some of the FDA’s letters, including three sent in March, and sent letters to three companies on its own in September.

This year, one Community Action Project focused on the use of data by Agape Child and Family Services.

Crooks will often create lookalike websites with URLs that are a character or two off from the real thing. More sales are being made using mobile devices and the small screens make it more difficult to detect the deception.

Luis Orbegoso says he found the right cultural fit, both as president of American Residential Services and as a resident of Memphis.

As a teacher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Crystal Harris adapts each student's lessons from their own school's programs, which means her job can look different for every patient.

CJ Harris gives away books, helps students grow plants and coaches peewee football. “When you step foot in a classroom to mold children, you don’t get to half-step with this,” he says.

A religion major as an undergraduate, Daniel Warner used a Memphis Teacher Residency to get his master’s degree in education and fell in love with the city. A 2019 fellow of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation, Warner is one of five educators New Memphis honored with this year's Educators of Excellence awards. 

Currently in her 10th year as a Memphis educator, Alyssa Nucaro is a graduate of the New Memphis Embark program, one of five New Memphis honored this year with Educators of Excellence awards.

The top industry generating complaints from military consumers for six years in a row is new car dealers. Service members also encounter more struggles than the general public in home-related needs because they move, on average, every two to four years.

Older Memphis residents should prepare for and find trusted advisers or loved ones to help them combat financial exploitation, local experts say.

Stewart works closely with Grizzlies team President Jason Wexler and is a liaison for minority owners and community organizations. Her legal background has been of use as well.

Now in her 15th year in the classroom and her first working with special populations at Westhaven Elementary, DeLoach remains as passionate and committed to impacting her students as she was the year she began teaching.

Crooks exploit our fascination with celebrities by luring us to websites that may claim to have the latest gossip about a celebrity but that also contain malware. 

'Memphis makes sure you don’t forget the history here, which is invaluable. Memphis is a special place, and the history holds what Memphis’ unique character is.'

Crowdfunding platforms have rules for what kinds of projects can be posted on their website and vet them to some degree, but they don’t guarantee success. As with any new product, there are risks that include delays in completing a project or failure to bring a product to market at all.

Memphis is an ideal place to launch a career, says Keely Grady, whose internships include work at ALSAC, Le Bonheur and AutoZone.

Sebastiaan de Kok says living and working in Memphis has been a pleasant surprise. "People are so nice and welcoming. Not just nice, people can be nice anywhere and say their pleasantries. People genuinely want to help you out in Memphis."

The Student Leader program, which began in 2005, is in 90 Bank of America markets, but 2019 marks the inaugural year for the Memphis market.

In 2017, the largest simultaneous ransomware attack ever affected tens of thousands of organizations in 74 countries, including FedEx’ Memphis operations. Collierville's town computer system was the target of a ransomware attack in July.

College students who attended a New Memphis Launch Session hosted by the Grizzlies learned there are also roles they can play in human resources, communications and IT to make the show go on.

"I have always felt the need to have global reach and impact the most people," says Daniel Bastardo Blanco, a Venezuelan-born scientist who chose a career in research over medical school.

People desperate to unload their timeshares are vulnerable to timeshare relief firms that offer to sell their property for an upfront fee. The firm collects the fee but never delivers the service.

“I was told that if I’d gone to business school I would have learned that pivoting in a business is a smart thing to do. If something isn’t working, discontinue it. ... So, technically I didn’t start and fail; I pivoted.”