Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland announced Friday, May 7, that he is proposing bonus pay for police and firefighters over the next three fiscal years.

The new planning board applications for the June meeting include a 500-plus door truck terminal, a $75 million warehouse park and a proposal for 15-lot subdivision in East Memphis that would use a public street but be gated.

Three-day event has been moved to late November, with a number of top class of 2022 players expected.

Twenty-three-year-old Jake Gelnovatch, who was a college standout at Louisville and recently completed a successful trial with 901 FC, impressed the club with a successful trial.

Lakeland moves forward on initial phase of its athletic complex with two soccer fields and a parking lot.

Tennessee legislators moved in the final days of their just-completed session to ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants, both changes sought by activists in the wake of the police-involved deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.

Bhan Thai, Molly Smith’s restaurant on Peabody Avenue that opened in 2002, has closed its doors for the last time. Smith officially shut down on the day she usually hosted the fundraiser Cinco de Thai-O.

The application states that the 85-acre filmmaking studio will rival any facility in Hollywood, Atlanta or London.

No new coronavirus-related deaths were reported.

Collierville Planning Commission denied a conditional use permit for a gas station on New Byhalia Road near Maynard Way.

Tennessee governors have been remaking school reading policies for 40 years, and yet reading achievement scores have barely budged.

While ignorance has always been preventable and COVID-19 is now preventable, nothing can prevent stupid in 100% of us. Not getting a vaccine is all about you, a selfish and self-indulgent exercise.

Justin Martin, doubles team of Luke Donovan and Roberto Ferrer are impressive on their home court.

It was the type of loss that will sting if it turns out to be the difference in the play-in tournament seeding. 

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Two Memphis Police officers were legally justified in fatally shooting a Frayser man, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich said Thursday, May 6.

Whataburger is coming back to the Mid-South: One will open in Southaven in late 2021.

The Second Gentleman and the U.S. Labor Secretary pushed Thursday, May 6, for support of the American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan proposal in Whitehaven and Downtown. They offered different definitions of infrastructure and what is necessary beyond the pandemic for economic recovery than the state’s two Republican U.S. Senators.

Chris Moore also has served as co-chair of the bowl’s annual golf classic for the past 27 years.

Vacation Express will soon offer weekly nonstop flights between Memphis and Cancun, Mexico. The seasonal service is set to resume May 23.

Residents polled in South Memphis identified blight removal as the No. 1 issue they’d like TIF money to address, but also affordable housing, stronger local retail, and improved streets and sidewalks.

About 90 people gathered outside Collierville Town Hall to observe the National Day of Prayer. National Day of Prayer is the first Thursday in May annually.

Arlington is considering inclusion of welcome signs at entrances to the town on main roads – signs that tend to get removed after plans in the budget each year.

Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss why Ja Morant’s top five point guard conversation is pointless. 

Where there’s smoke, there’s 🔥🔥🔥 when it’s in Tom Lee Park. Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest returns after a forced 2020 hiatus, proving you can’t keep a good festival down.