Promising 2021 guard Daveonne Warfield hoping transfer to Wooddale will raise his recruiting profile.

Local high school coaches form Metro Black Coaches Coalition to aid players and coaches. 

The Lee Administration is making $115 million in federal funds available to local governments to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

UTHSC physician-scientist was part of the original leadership team of The Cancer Genome Atlas. He led the sequencing of RNA, which controls abnormal genetic expression in cancer cells. 

Strike for Black Lives protesters gathered Monday outside the McDonald’s at 2073 Union for a lunch hour demonstration in support of efforts to combat systemic racism and demand better wages and benefits for workers including in the fast food industry.

'My heart is heavy at the passing of this great foot soldier of the movement and congressman for the people,' says the president of the National Civil Rights Museum. 'In his honor, we’ll vote like our lives depend on it, because they do. '

Jeremiah Martin is earning high praise from his Brooklyn Nets teammates and coaches in the Orlando NBA bubble. 

Shelby County’s 304 new coronavirus cases come from 1,678 tests, a positivity rate of 18.1%. 

Early voting across Shelby County in advance of the Aug. 6 election date resumes Monday, July 20, after the first two days drew nearly 8,000 voters.

As leaders around the country make decisions based on wishful thinking, Rhodes College postponed on-campus eduction for the fall semester because it determined it could not safely bring students, faculty and employees back to campus. "It’s about setting your values and having the courage of your convictions," said president Marjorie Hass. If only more leaders would do the same. 

Open letter to TSSAA and governor asks that players' opinions be considered in regard to what football in 2020 may look like.

After weeks of kid food and a vacation without restaurants, it's nice to be home, with a list of places to go and a work plan for the coming week.

Memphis/Shelby County made progress in the struggle against COVID-19, coming out of a Safer at Home order and advancing into a Phase 2 reopening. But Phase 2 has been modified, cases have spiked again, and there remain major concerns going forward, including whether or not elementary and secondary schools can reopen in the fall. 

It is the second historical marker to be snapped in two from its base in the past month. The rector of Calvary Episcopal Church says the marker, noting the location of Nathan Bedford Forrest's slave market, will be repaired and reinstalled as soon as possible.

Porch & Parlor closed after employees tested positive for COVID-19; owner says he'll reopen when it's safe.

ICU capacity in the region is at 89%, slightly less than prior days. The Health Department reports there are 48 beds available.

Who buys the cleaning supplies for a safe return to schools during the pandemic? What happens if students forget their face masks? A parent has these and other questions about the Shelby County Schools plan for fall. 

When it comes to producing top-tier running backs, the Tigers have put themselves in elite company. In June, 247Sports looked at which programs produced the most draft picks by position over the last five drafts.

The NBA has a tip line that players can use if they see one of their peers breaking the coronavirus safety protocols and Ja Morant wants no part of it; also, SEC footballs coaches mostly decide they'll keep all their money (let others take pay cuts to help their schools); and Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson among WGC-FESJI headliners. 

Do the experts wear masks? Eat out? Sanitize their mail and groceries? Let their kids join protests or send them to school? We asked.

What will happen when some of them test positive for COVID-19? The answers are troubling, and in many cases yet to be determined.

The restored columns of the circa 1840s Pillow-McIntyre House at Adams and Orleans were reinstalled last week, signalling at turn in fortunes for a sometimes forgotten house with some secrets.

Bree Newsome is the African American woman who scaled the flagpole at the South Carolina capital to bring down the Confederate flag after Dylann Roof killed nine people in Charleston, South Carolina. It is my hope that her name is not relegated to the dustbins of trivial history. Bree Newsome. Hardly trivial.

The race pits state Rep. Tom Leatherwood, who his says his experience is needed to help steer Tennessee, against challenger Lee Mills, a former Republican Party chairman who calls his opponent a “career politician.”

Late goal provides morale boost heading into AutoZone Park return.