Hampton senior guard Davion Warren announced his commitment to the University of Memphis in a tweet Saturday. 

Vaccinating 700,000 people — about 70% of the population —would be sufficient for the county to reach herd immunity, according to local public health experts.

The Shelby County Health Department reported 89 new coronavirus cases and four additional virus-related deaths Saturday, April 3.

The departures actually are not surprising, and Hardaway gets to dig through the portal for the Tigers’ needs. 

Few people if anybody wanted the demolition of Downtown’s historic Nylon Net Building. But the staff of the Design Review Board gives a thumbs-up to the proposed way that the replacement building would look.

On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, state Rep. Mark White acknowledges the bill doesn’t address many of the complexities of the local schools merger and demerger that kept the three namesake Germantown schools in the Shelby County Schools system.

The Home Show of the Mid-South will be the first event to take place in the expo center since March 2020. The home show runs April 9-11 followed by the Mid-South Jewelry & Accessories Fair from April 16-18.

‘Commemorations with little or no consideration for King as preacher, make me wonder how many King admirers are unaware of the transcendent religious experience that was his defining moment.’

Senior strikes out 14 as Houston wins its 13th of the season.

Minnesota’s two-man show was no match for Memphis’ 10-man rotation. 

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Social justice group seeks to be part of the discussion and decisions about police reforms and the selection of the next Memphis Police director.

Nesbitt, who was part of coach Penny Hardaway’s 2021 signing class, enrolled a semester early and joined the Tigers in January. He played a total of 12 minutes in three games. 

Authorities are concentrating their search in ZIP codes with high concentrations of warehousing and manufacturing.

The 175 new cases come from 3,235 tests, giving the day a positivity rate of 5.4%.

While nearly $60 million in new projects and renovations in Frayser is encouraging for neighborhood residents, the diverse portfolio of those projects is arguably just as important.

The program airs at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 4, and concludes with a moment of silence and bells tolling at 6:01 p.m., the time on April 4, 1968, when King was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. 

The fight over the controversial Byhalia Connection oil pipeline has moved into a new arena: The federal court system.

The venerable Al Green shows his comedic side while getting his second vaccination shot Thursday at Saint Francis, then woos others to follow suit.

Churches moving outdoors, broadcasting and inching up on pew capacity for Easter.

One Germantown resident has won a prestigious national award for her watercolor portfolio.

Rev. Keith Norman of Baptist Memorial Health Care and Meritan CEO Melanie Keller talked about the vaccine outreach to the homebound and homeless on “Behind The Headlines.” 

What have we learned from the hard lesson of Overton Park’s greensward? What has the COVID experiment taught us?