Seventy-eight youth baseball teams are playing a tournament at GameDay in Cordova this weekend. It is scary beautiful.

Muralist and tattoo artist David Yancy III says his painting on a Lamar Avenue wall is "something that people can think about." 

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris has agreed to accelerated COVID-19 testing of inmates at the Shelby County Corrections Center after meeting earlier this week with representatives of the community action group MICAH.

Gov. Bill Lee's Office isn't worried about President Donald Trump’s demand for houses of worship to open, saying he never ordered churches to close but did urge alternative services to avoid spreading COVID-19.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Thursday condemned a church fire in Holly Springs that’s being investigated as an arson.

Jennifer Biggs talks to Kelly English and Ryan Trimm about how they survived the COVID shutdown, what they’re doing to keep their takeout, curbside and delivery business going and what’s going to happen when they reopen.

The general footprint of the plan to renovate the park – three “stages” with separation and a smaller covered venue – mimics the footprint of Memphis in May's Beale Street Music Fest, but in a way that would make a good park even without it. 

Tennessee College of Applied Technology will now add a 20,000-square-foot building to its Downtown campus, even while construction continues on its new Bartlett campus.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris made the announcement Friday at the end of an eventful week that includes a lawsuit over COVID-19 cases at the Shelby County Jail, calls for testing at the correctional center and a sit-in by jail prisoners with the virus as they were moved out of isolation.

The 247Sports Composite Rankings places Brandon Warner as the No. 1,339 overall prospect in the country and No. 36 in Tennessee.

To date, the EDGE committee has awarded $179,000 to 32 businesses throughout the NEED grant program.

With 49 new cases in Shelby County between Thursday and Friday, the overall rate of positivity continues its fall well below 10%.

FedEx Logistics joins FedEx Office and FedEx Freight as entities of Memphis-based FedEx Corp. that have implemented temporary, unpaid furloughs because of business conditions arising from COVID-19.

Nursing homes are among the hardest hit by the coronavirus - nearly four in ten deaths in Shelby County occurred in those facilities.

The Shelby County Health Department has advised against large in-person graduation ceremonies, according to a letter by Gary Lilly sent to Collierville seniors and parents.

“At some point this pandemic will have run its course and we’ll get back to normal. ... Now, the question is when?’’

That brings the statewide total to 19,394 confirmed cases and 315 deaths.

“My sense was that the money should have been distributed in the same way we distributed Title I money. I think that’s what most of Congress was expecting,” the Tennessee Republican said, referring to the federal program that supports students from low-income families.

The 6-foot-2 wide receiver tweeted Thursday afternoon that he entered the transfer portal. 

The details of the winning proposal for the new voting machines were made public Thursday with the signature of Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris. Still to come is approval of funding by the Shelby County Commission.

Former Georgetown player Mac McClung wants to improve his point guard skills for the NBA. There's no better teacher than Tigers coach Penny Hardaway.

Gov. Bill Lee said the State Attorney General has filed a request for the Tennessee Supreme Court to take the Education Savings Account case and allow it to move forward while the case is on appeal.

How do you measure 6 feet of social distance in Elvis speak? Where the Memphis Zoo stenciled 6-foot markings of snakes and alligators on the ground when they reopened, Graceland has gone with six gold records or six teddy bears.

Mayor Jim Strickland’s proposal to expand testing moves the city closer to a more ambitious scaling up of COVID-19 testing as local health experts explore an even broader scale for the long term.

Tennessee's unemployment rate in April was the highest on record, eclipsing a low-water mark that had stood since 1983.