Despite his battle with cancer, Nick Vergos made the trip to the Bahamas last month -- one more journey to see Tiger basketball

In the "Behind The Headlines" interview, the University of Memphis president also talked about his plan to up hourly wages to at least $15 an hour and the unpredictability of a new athletic conference affiliation.

Schools across Tennessee will start delving into traumatic experiences in students’ lives as part of a new law targeting “exclusionary” discipline under legislation sponsored by state Sen. Katrina Robinson, a first-term Memphis Democrat.

Our traffic has grown. Our subscriptions are double the original projection. We've added journalists and an app and obituaries and more. All because local journalism is under assault.

St. Jude is first in the world to acquire a 1.1-gigahertz magnet. In a month, it will be ready to use.

The middle child of Anastasia and Charlie Vergos, who founded the Rendezvous 71 years ago, Nick Vergos grew up in the family business, most recently running the restaurant's Downtown shipping operation.

A nearly $33 million building permit for interior finishwork has been pulled for the FedEx Logistics headquarters project in Downtown Memphis.

Chef duo Andy & Michael will have a bar in Central Station when it opens and a restaurant about a month later.

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers Sept. 5-12.

Cristina McCarter of Feast & Graze gives us tips on how to put together a cheese and charcuterie board at home.

The 38126 Center, to be located at the corner of Mississippi Boulevard and Walker Avenue, is directly across from The Four Way restaurant and less than half a mile from LeMoyne-Owen College.

With a late push, the Memphis Redbirds stayed in the playoff hunt until the last series of the season. Manager Ben Johnson, a Germantown High School graduate, hopes to be back in 2020.

FedEx SameDay Bot Roxo delivered a gift bag of swag to Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland as FedEx marked the midpoint of a two-week test of the autonomous delivery device.

David Rudd's contract as leader of the University of Memphis will be for three years, beginning Oct. 1, with options to extend it another two years.

Rudd said the visibility of athletics has certainly helped with fundraising for the University of Memphis. 

Developers are seeking tax incentives Tuesday, Sept. 10, on adaptive reuse projects at 82-88 South Main at Union, 99-105 South Front in Cotton Row district, and 345 South Main.

Amid the thousands of runners herded into corrals in front of FedExForum, James Eversull approached the starting line of the St. Jude Memphis Marathon Saturday determined to build on a story he’s heard often, even if he has no personal memory of it.

This is a boy-meets-girl story, with complications. Because what love story for the ages ever came off without some complications? And so: Boy gets cancer. Girl gets cancer, too. Boy loses right arm, at age 7, but discovers his inner lefty. He takes up golf, and even plays on the baseball team. “I played first base and centerfield,” he says, with pride. “I wasn’t the kid in right field who ate grass. I was part of the team.”

Randall Mullins and Sharon Pavelda founded a project to identify and memorialize lynching sites in Shelby County, and helped create a community of supporters, from the National Park Service to the local NAACP, preachers and politicians, activists and academics.

With challengers for every incumbent seeking re-election, Tuesday's council session was short and punchy. Meanwhile, the Central Library remains ground zero for multiple candidate forums – one Tuesday evening for seven of the 11 candidates for mayor on the Oct. 3 ballot.

A developer wants to build a five-story Residence Inn by Marriott with 98 guestrooms and structured parking. 

The 500-room hotel would rise on 1.7 acres, where the Civic Plaza now offers fountains and benches across from City Hall.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris unveiled a plan Wednesday to put $10 million in county funds into MATA through a new $145 sustainability fee for households with three or more vehicles.

Memphis running back Patrick Taylor has been ruled out of Saturday's game against Southern University. 

Three years after her diagnosis, LáDeia Joyce is in a pharmaceutical ad campaign and on the public speaking circuit.