While cases and hospitalizations remain higher than the benchmarks set by local health officials, the pandemic is plateauing following the Christmas and New Year’s surge, Shelby County Health Department Director Alisa Haushalter said.
Thomas G. Carpenter, the 11th president of the university, also was the founding president of the University of North Florida.
Memphis musicians Garry Goin, TykeT, Karen Brown and Adajyo will perform.
Ahead of the team’s first game of the year, rampant turnovers pose the question: Can the Tigers get out of their own way?
Expo Center, which has hosted the state tournament since 2010, is being used as a COVID-19 testing site.
As the Health Department resumes vaccinations, it reported just over 500 new coronavirus cases.
District officials said they expect money they will get from the latest federal relief package could be about four times higher than last time, or about $190 million.
The Trump administration is asking states to speed delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to people 65 and older and to others at high risk by no longer holding back the second dose of the two-dose shots, officials said Tuesday.
Grizzlies, facing Cavaliers for the second time in five days, were led by Dillon Brooks (21 points, seven rebounds). Related story: Box score: Grizzlies 101, Cavaliers 91
A fire early Saturday morning heavily damaged a 120-year-old building in the historic Pinch District.
Shelby County commissioners will meet in special session next week to vote on a transfer of $300,000 from the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office budget to the county attorney’s office.
A proposal by Commissioner Tami Sawyer to require County Commission approval for any sheriff to acquire surplus federal military equipment was postponed.
Republican commissioners said their “no” votes were because of concerns about the use of county reserves to create the $2.5 million fund. Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris is asking Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to reimburse the county funding with state money.
A proposed second convenience store at Byhalia Commons has faced resistance from the town’s Planning Commission.
A man from Nashville was charged Sunday for being part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, federal prosecutors said.
State representatives from Shelby County want to clarify that authority for school operations lies with local district’s elected leaders.
Club Champion opened its Memphis studio on Saturday, Jan. 9. The business custom fits golf clubs to golfers of all levels. The East Memphis shop is the company’s second in Tennessee and 76th in the nation.
Through January, the Shelby County Health Department will be vaccinating in a drive-thru line at the Pipkin Building.
CBHS running back, Collierville defensive end are the best of the best for 2020 in The Daily Memphian postseason high school football awards, also featuring coach of the year and all-metro teams.
Germantown officials approved a resolution Monday night regarding the chaos at the U.S. Capitol last week, seeking unity in the country.
It wasn’t much of a snow but it beautified the January landscape for a few hours as it fluttered across Shelby County and neighboring sections early Monday.
But the mayor says he is willing to work with the City Council and says the conflicting wording in two resolutions the council approved last month could “work together” to get more funding to public transportation, mobility and parking projects.
Sterling Development of Indiana plans a 260-unit, $25 million apartment complex near the southeast corner of U.S 64 and Reid Hooker Road.
Scott Robinson, the basketball coach at Collierville High School, became close with Howard Liebengood at Memphis. He sent Liebengood a text after the Capitol was attacked. Now Robinson is mourning his friend.
“It will give us the fuel to move our vision research forward,” said the director of the Hamilton Eye Institute.