The 152 cases come from 1,967 tests, giving the day a positivity rate of 7.7%.

According to Shelby County Health Department, ZIP code 38127 has among the highest coronavirus cases rates in the county, has produced more variant cases than any other ZIP code in the county per 100,000 and is one of the least-vaccinated areas in the county.

The former Tigers forward has found a new, yet familiar home.

Cerelyn ‘C.J.’ Davis, chief of police in Durham, North Carolina, has been named to head the Memphis Police Department, becoming the first woman to lead the agency in its 194-year history.

Villa Castrioti has inked a deal to open a second location in The Lake District and plans to expand its Cordova restaurant to enlarge the bar area.

The Grizzlies forward goes into detail about fatherhood, his “SlowMo” nickname, his shoulder injury and the most productive season of his career. 

Two women are leading the effort to stop Byhalia Pipeline from running its crude oil through South Memphis neighborhoods. The fight is reminiscent of the battle won decades ago by women who stopped a freeway from running through Overton Park.

‘Not here, not now, not ever on our watch,' said Rev. Dr. William Barber II during a rally Sunday protesting the Byhalia Connection Pipeline that would go through majority Black, poor neighborhoods in southwest Memphis. 

Around 30 people gathered outside the National Civil Rights Museum on Sunday, April 18, to demand justice in three recent police killings in Knoxville, Chicago and Minnesota. 

There were several major updates to the Memphis injury report prior to Monday’s game vs. Denver.

A total of 291,556 people have been vaccinated in Shelby County. Of those, 110,942 are partially vaccinated and 180,614 are fully vaccinated. 

Current disease modeling of the U.K. variant, 50% more contagious than the original Wuhan strain of coronavirus, shows Shelby County cases could rise to 300 to 400 a day. This can pose a problem for employers already struggling to fill positions. 

Neighborhood leaders thought the tree-lined streets, where almost every home has a veranda, would be ideal for outdoor mini-concerts.

Although Memphis has long battled perceptions (and reality) about its crime rate, community leaders say it’s not as much of a factor in economic recruitment efforts as one might expect.

Crime impacts neighborhoods across the city. From Frayser to Whitehaven, community leaders discuss how to address the problem and the causes that contribute to it.

‘Lost in Orion,’ Don Lifted’s somber yet catchy debut single with Fat Possum Records, is ‘the culmination of a really tough, frustrating and death-ridden time,’ the artist says.

Yolanda Johnson, who has been in the nail industry for 21 years, plans to open a school to help former ex-felons train to be entrepreneurs and start their own nail salons like she did.

What do you get when you mix bulldozers with acreage that has been populated for generations? “The opportunity of a lifetime,” says one hobbyist who spent 10 weeks hovering his metal detector over the Overton Park Golf Course.

April 17, 2021: Grizzlies 128, Bucks 115

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MVP3 Entertainment Group and ATWEC Technologies plan to buy Malco Majestic Cinema in Southeast Memphis and transform it into a sports complex and film production facility. A hotel is also set to be built on the 20-acre site.

A total of 289,761 people are vaccinated in Shelby County. The number of people partially vaccinated is 112,088, while 177,673 people are fully vaccinated.

On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, Greater Imani Pastor Rev. Bill Adkins says the case can be made for a new director from MPD ranks or for someone from the outside. Adkins also said he sees a new indifference to violent crime that calls for new solutions as well as new ways of policing the city.

The debut of “Pour Me Another” at Brooks Museum is among several art events – indoors, outdoors, in-person, online – available to viewers April 17 and 18 in Memphis.