Direct from the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, Madan Babu will direct the Center of Excellence for Data-Driven Discovery at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. 

Hulet and Jackie Gregory this week bought the 85,000-square-foot Bartlett Station Plaza shopping center. Gregory Realty now has about 30 commercial properties and is hunting for more.

University of Memphis economist warns that ending $600-a-week federal jobless payment would endanger a fragile economic recovery and dampen wages and wage increases for workers.

Center Makur Maker announced he will make a decision between four schools next week. 

Tyus Jones became a father in May. Now the Grizzlies point guard will have to leave his baby at home during the Orlando NBA restart. 

901 FC returns to the pitch July 15 in Birmingham as the second-year USL team restarts play stalled by the pandemic.

Several takeaways from Thursday's COVID briefing and the rise in cases. Among them: We're not as bad off as Florida, but we're bad enough that local and CDC officials are alarmed.

Gorney Realty Partners just bought the Centrum and Colonnade office buildings in East Memphis from Highwoods Properties.

The manual search through Memphis Police Department's excessive-force investigations is a slow and tedious process. But a recent search uncovered a file on the 2015 police beating of a suspect that reportedly wasn't referred to the Shelby County District Attorney's Office for review of the officers' conduct.

Gov. Bill Lee announced Thursday, July 2, plans for a partnership with various agencies to enhance officer training and increase police training.

Shelby County reported its highest single-day increase of new coronavirus cases with 394 Thursday. Over the past seven days, the county is averaging 273 new cases a day.

The endowment from the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis is the largest in LeMoyne-Owen College’s history.

Ja Morant is out to prove the doubters wrong again in the NBA's Orlando restart. 

Ahead of the Fourth of July weekend, City of Memphis COO Doug McGowen recalled the other times that Americans stepped up and made a difference, and said that’s what needed to take on this pandemic.

Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins recently made official what team reps had been confirming privately, as players began meeting the media — at least via Zoom. 

We cannot undo the past. But we most certainly can learn from the mistakes of the past.

Those 394 new cases come from 3,164 tests, a positivity rate of 12.5%.

The estimated $19 million project will provide 12 indoor courts, 24 outdoor courts and other amenities for both public tennis players and the University of Memphis Tiger tennis teams. 

South of Beale is heading east, a new, interactive COVID map could help guide your travels, and a former big box is getting turned into a one-stop shop. 

Shelby County ranks No. 4 on the 14 highest-risk counties for Tennessee, behind Macon, Davidson and Sevier counties.

Southwest Tennessee Community College plans to convert the closed Office Depot building near Downtown for its performing arts programs, for an array of student services, for a bit of retail to serve students and for a more prominent presence along busy Union Avenue.

U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman says the case isn't about her ordering changes at Shelby County Jail, but about whether vulnerable prisoners should be ordered released.

Governor signed an executive order providing legal cover for health care providers in the COVID-19 pandemic and said his administration is looking at the legal authority for local governments to mandate face masks.

The Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis is working to reduce poverty in the 38126 ZIP code, one of the poorest in the city. Booker T. Washington High School is at the center of the initiative.

On “Behind The Headlines,” the first-term council member said the proposals to come will push further on changing the Memphis Police Department beyond nonbinding resolutions approved last month.