Wright Medical has about 700 employees in the Memphis area.

Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn believes some families opted to home-school their children, and others enrolled their kids in private schools, especially in Memphis and Nashville. But the biggest decline was in kindergarten enrollment.

Like everything else, a safe Thanksgiving dinner is small and distanced. But that doesn’t mean you have to give up your favorites, and you can support local restaurants while making the day easier for everyone.

Healthcare Realty Trust has purchased the six-story, 135,000-square-foot medical office building at 6401 Poplar.

When he was in the sixth grade at Presbyterian Day School, Cameron Kinley wrote an essay about what makes Navy athletes special. Now he’s showing us in real life.

The nonprofit organization so far has sold 270 motor scooters to provide reliable, affordable workforce transportation, but also provides free accessory gear, training, maintenance and insurance. 

If the game can’t be rescheduled, it will make the Tigers’ chances of reaching the AAC championship game even slimmer.

There may be light at the end of the tunnel in Mississippi’s long-running challenge of Memphis’ right to withdraw water from Middle Claiborne Aquifer. 

Come Friday, Alex Grisanti is back in the brick and mortar restaurant business. He talks to Jennifer Biggs about what Elfo Grisanti Northern Italian Cuisine will be like on this week’s edition of Sound Bites.

The start of free agency is set, and the Grizzlies will start training camp in early December.

Without a statewide mask mandate, leaders across West Tennessee are working to help people understand there is not a rural and urban virus.

The partnership that built The Citizen in the heart of Midtown is selling it to a Carlisle Corp. entity, but no changes in operations are planned, a Downtown agency was told.

Despite a few questions, the Center City Revenue Finance Corp. board voted unanimously to fund a $62 million plan to improve parking, walking and cycling Downtown. The City Council and County Commission still must approve the project.

Tuesday’s 691 cases come from 8,252 tests, giving the day a positivity rate of 8.4%.

A new company based in Crosstown Concourse believes it has invented a robot that will solve a stubborn problem for the logistics industry: Unloading boxes from trailers and shipping containers in a speedy way.

You can’t blame Associated Press voters for leaving the Tigers out of the preseason poll. The program has a recent history of underachieving. This is the year to flip that around. 

The latest hiccup is a higher-than-expected contract for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to run the county’s forensic center for the region, with the county dipping into its reserves for the difference. 

The Germantown Board of Mayor and Alderman approved a resolution urging Gov. Bill Lee to implement a statewide mask mandate. It also approved outline plans for two subdivisions that total 90 homes. 

Leaders urge citizens to take part in Unity Walk Against Gun Violence Saturday, Nov. 14. 

The brewery already has installed “state of the art” brewing systems and plans to open this winter behind the Rec Room at 584 Tillman St. this winter.

Extra Space Storage bought $300 million of Jernigan Capital preferred shares, gaining control of 37 properties as Jernigan was bought by private equity firm NexPoint Advisors.

There could be a shortage of teachers and monitors in January if survey results reflect what association leaders are hearing. 

In Shelby County, 331,167 people have been tested for coronavirus; 12% of them have received a positive result.