The city’s second convention center hotel will be constructed on Civic Center Plaza across from City Hall and next to the Downtown Memphis Commission offices, Jonathan Tisch, the chairman and CEO of Loews Hotel & Co., said Friday.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland addressed the city Friday morning, saying there have been 40 incidents in which the Memphis Police Department investigated and disciplined officers for violating policies surrounding the use of body and vehicle cameras, vowing to get “to the bottom of this” shooting of 25-year-old Martavious Banks.

“I need help with everything,” Brooks said. “Most important has been the money issue. Buying Pampers, wipes, clothes, extra bottles. Then transportation sometimes because my mom works every day, and I need to find a way to my doctor’s appointments for my babies.

Less than two weeks before an Oct. 2 gubernatorial debate set for Memphis, Republican candidate Bill Lee missed an MTSU Gubernatorial Luncheon & Forum in Murfreesboro on Thursday, Sept. 20.

Since its founding by church and community leaders on Sept. 15, 1968, the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association has spawned a number of organizations and has grown into one of the most important nonprofits in the Mid-South. In fiscal 2018, which ran from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018, MIFA served more than half a million meals to more than 3,600 seniors; helped more 3,500 families with utility, rent and mortgage assistance; distributed more than 11,000 food vouchers; connected more than 250 families with permanent, stable housing; and screened more than 7,000 calls through a 24-hour homeless hotline.

At a recent Collierville High football practice, the state-of-the-art sound system was blaring a selection of Top 40 classics at an ear-shattering volume loud enough to be heard across campus. “Coach (Mike) O’Neill likes to keep it turned down,” said Dragons athletic director Jeff Curtis in all seriousness. “It definitely bumps. Hopefully, we won’t have any neighbors that get upset.” 

On Saturday, the Brooks Museum of Art will be active inside and out. The work of renowned Barcelona sculptor and artist Jaume Plensa will make a Memphis debut as his “Talking Continents” exhibit opens to the public. Meanwhile, a secretive, week-long “Outings" project installation from French artist Julien de Casabianca will begin at parts unknown across the city.

The mother of Martavious Banks, the man shot by Memphis police on Monday evening, stood on the street where he was shot earlier this week and demanded the names of the officers who critically wounded her son and that they be arrested.

From the outside, F-104 looks like any other classroom on the Douglass High campus. But step inside Kuwane Turner’s classroom and something different emerges. A world of strategy and thinking, of brainpower and reasoning, of competition on a whole different level. In F-104, the name of the game is chess. No nerds allowed and you better bring your A-game at all times. 

Work is underway in Collierville on a new Center Connect streetscape project that promises to transform Center Street leading to the historic Town Square, establishing a new gateway to Downtown Collierville.

Father and son were both still in uniform. Dad had just managed the Memphis Redbirds to their second straight Pacific Coast League championship. His uniform was damp with champagne.

Debra Clark thought there must be a catch when her manager announced FedEx was offering Memphis hub workers tuition-free online education at University of Memphis.

Two days after Martavious Banks was critically wounded by a Memphis police officer in a shooting, protesters stood on the sidewalk at the entrance to the Airways police precinct calling for justice Wednesday night. About 50 protesters, some with bullhorns and carrying signs that read, “We have our cameras on," arrived shortly before 7 p.m. to the “Citywide Protest” organized by Memphis activist, Mac Freddie. 

The Memphis Redbirds were leading the Durham Bulls 8-0 in the fifth inning of the Gildan Triple-A National Championship Game Tuesday night when NBC Sports Network took a moment to interview John Mozeliak, the St. Louis Cardinals president of baseball operations.

You’re reading the first issue of The Daily Memphian. This is no small thing. The people, the effort, the money and resources that had to come together to make this possible cannot be underestimated. But now we’re here.

From a competitive standpoint, the Memphis Grizzlies’ 2018-2019 schedule is the kind of unremarkable to which NBA schedule-makers aspire.

Open records advocates believe they’re on the verge of major victories in eliminating and changing exceptions to Tennessee laws to offer a more transparent look at how government runs.

As near as anyone can tell, people have been frying food since the Middle Ages. I like to think that this unknown date, when a first fritter was dunked in boiling fat, was our true moment of civilization. Around the world, perhaps nothing fries up as nicely as a chicken. Setting aside vegetarians and the extremely health conscious, it is everyone’s favorite food. Right?

Over the years, suburban cities have dealt with cyclical changes in direction. Those times when enough new folks move into a municipality and decide the old folks in office aren’t doing things correctly and orchestrate a change.

When it comes to bipartisanship, Tennessee politicians talk a good game. But in the ballot-box battle, they’re all about party.

A house now under construction in Victorian Village is rare in two ways. It’s the first home in more than a century to be built in the 600 block of Adams, the core of old 19th-century neighborhood of mansions. And, the new house is intended solely for Airbnb guests.

In 1948, Sam Bomarito was back from the war, settled back in his hometown and had about $3,000 to put in a business. His cousin, Pete Romeo from Chicago, had about the same. They teamed up and opened Pete & Sam’s, but Pete wasn’t long for a sleepy river town.

The 13-member Shelby County Commission has entered a new four-year term with eight new faces. Those new commissioners soon will have to make key decisions while, at the same time, learning about the ins and outs of county government.

It’s hard to say who’s happier to see light at the end of the tunnel for the Lamar corridor’s infamous gridlock. Is it owners and operators of trucks that clog the commercial artery and feeder streets, burning fuel, polluting air, wasting drivers’ time and slowing the movement of goods?

“Liberal science” is one of those terms that sort of makes sense after somebody takes 10 minutes to explain it but seems baffling on first hearing. Is it an oxymoron – science isn’t supposed to be ideological, right? Or is it, as conservatives might fear, science from the left end of the political spectrum?