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Sports The first FedEx St. Jude Invitational, a World Golf Championships event, is still almost 10 months away. But at TPC Southwind near the tournament office, a backhoe stands on a hill ready to be put to work. -
Opinion Barnes: Phil Trenary worked to make Memphis better. His work must continue.
Phil Trenary was a friend who I met through work. I think this was probably true of many of Phil’s friends. They met him through work. That’s because Phil’s work, his passion for so many years, was to make Memphis, this city he loved, a better place. -
Health Care Le Bonheur institute finding new treatments for epilepsy
Nothing is scarier than watching your child experience a seizure. Just ask Ashley Eagle. Her 3-year-old son, Jackson, has been seeing doctors for a genetic disorder and epilepsy since he was a baby. Colds and viruses typically cause flare-ups, bringing multiple seizures a week, even with medication. -
Shelby County An inside look at Lee Harris’ transition team
The work for Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris’ transition team began weeks before he celebrated his election night victory Aug. 2. -
High School Sports Prep Roundup: CBHS uses big plays to down Briarcrest
CBHS got a much tougher game from Briarcrest this season. But the end result was just the same. -
Memphis Tigers Football Tulane dominates uninspired Memphis as Tigers struggle again on road
The Kickoff: The Memphis Tigers offense completely lacked any spark Friday night, Sept. 28, in a 40-24 loss to the Tulane Green Wave in New Orleans. -
Dan Conaway Conaway: How can a place so warm and soulful in so many ways be so cold and soulless
Thursday night, Memphis took a bullet. -
Business Trenary remembered as charming, passionate advocate of Memphis
Phil Trenary was an accidental Memphian who became one of the city’s staunchest promoters. -
Public Safety Two teens in stolen truck crash charged, connection to Trenary slaying still unclear
Memphis police have charged two teenagers who were found in a stolen pickup truck matching the description of the one seen fleeing the scene where Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Phil Trenary was shot and killed Thursday night. -
City of Memphis Foote Homes to South City continues story of change
The path to end the city’s large public housing projects was a 20-year journey that brought city leaders to a tent last week near the corner of Vance and Lauderdale. -
Otis Sanford Lee seems well-positioned to break the 52-year trend of the governor’s office alternating between the two major parties - or is he?
If you believe the polls, Republican Bill Lee is steamrolling toward victory in the Tennessee governor’s race. -
Mississippi lays claim as the nation’s capital of gambling
Gambling 2.0, in the form of legal sports betting, and soon Gambling 3.0 – a state lottery – have come to Mississippi, which means they’ve come to neighboring Memphis and Shelby County as well. Mississippi will soon be the only state in the country with sports betting and a lottery and both commercial and Indian casinos. -
Sports Tunica sportsbooks open for wagers; football drives the action
Behind the counter at the Horseshoe Casino’s sportsbook in Tunica, employees wearing black-and-white striped shirts are taking wagers. The ghost of disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy apparently is not even a memory, bad karma having been cast out on these winds of change. -
Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies Roster Preview: Chandler Parsons, MarShon Brooks are offensive X-factors
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a five-part series previewing the Grizzlies roster. -
Sports Stubby Clapp to Toronto Rumors Escalate
John Gibbons knew he would not be returning to Toronto as the Blue Jays manager and it didn’t take long for him to go to work on endorsing a successor. -
Mound City sharecropper houses invite visitors to explore area’s rural roots
Thirteen minutes from Main Street, Memphis, a centuries-old Indian mound rises above washboard-flat crop land in the old farm settlement of Mound City, Arkansas. -
Lakeland Lakeland adding dog park with land donated by The Pet Hospitals
The Zadie E. Kuehl Memorial Park in Lakeland soon will expand to include a dog park on land donated by the owners of The Pet Hospitals. -
Metro Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Phil Trenary shot and killed Downtown
Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Phil Trenary was shot and killed Thursday, Sept. 27, on Front Street south of G.E. Patterson near Central Train Station. -
Geoff Calkins Calkins: Justin Timberlake? Drake? Memphis Madness is madness!
Let’s see if we have the list. -
Crosstown christens new theater ‘The Doll House’
Crosstown Arts’ new, $11 million performance and film hall is now built and has new name and manager. The not-for-profit organization for contemporary arts has christened the 28,000-square-foot facility The Doll House. -
Health Care Study shows for many women, chemo not needed for breast cancer
Genomic testing can done based on a 21-gene profile to classify breast cancer patients into categories of low risk, intermediate risk or high risk. And based on that profile, doctors determine whether or not the patient would benefit from chemotherapy. -
Bartlett Aldi renovation in Bartlett provides needed improvements for customers
After two months of renovation, Aldi, a discount grocery store with German roots, reopened its doors at 2867 Kirby Whitten Rd. earlier this month. -
Memphis Grizzlies A cooking Marc Gasol and dancing Jaren Jackson Jr. highlight Grizzlies giveaways for 2018-2019 season
Marc Gasol in the kitchen. Mike Conley making Christmas mischief. Jaren Jackson Jr. in motion. A title around your waist. -
Arts & Culture South Main Trolley Night celebrates 18 years Friday
Nearly two decades ago, the South Main Association in Downtown Memphis decided that the last Friday of every month would be ideal to celebrate South Main art, culture and community. -
Visual Arts Stax Museum, Crosstown Arts partner for ‘Give a Damn! Music + Activism at Stax Records’
The main artifact for a new exhibition at Crosstown Arts is Isaac Hayes' 14-foot-long, custom-made, red velvet office desk complete with white Formica top. Previously, the desk had been in storage for more than a year, after the Stax Museum of American Soul Music recovered it from the owner of East Nashville vintage boutique, The Hip Zipper.
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