In three decades on the Shelby County Election Commission, 24 of them as chairman, O.C. Pleasant oversaw changes from lever voting machines to electronic machines to touch-screen machines and dodged an attempt to introduce punch-card voting in local elections.

Sitting at the dining room table at his home in Bartlett, Dan Merrill, 67, holds his smartphone away from his reading glasses.

Senate Minority Chairman Raumesh Akbari, with an eye toward passage of a Florida referendum on felon voting rights, is planning to sponsor legislation automatically restoring the right to vote for people with low-level felony convictions.

When Scott Cherry’s coaching tenure at High Point University came to an end after a 14-16 record last season, some soothsayers might have seen Tubby Smith – then the University of Memphis coach – losing the Tigers gig and resurrecting at his alma mater in High Point, North Carolina.

Offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham on Sunday joined a growing line of former Tigers assistants who have moved to Power Five jobs after working under head coach Mike Norvell.

Saturday’s Grizzlies home loss to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers may have just been “one of those nights,” but a loss you want to keep in your rear-view has a way of creeping back in when it’s followed by another.

The departures from Memphis coach Mike Norvell’s coaching staff continued Monday afternoon as defensive coordinator Chris Ball was named the head coach at Northern Arizona.

Memphis head coach Mike Norvell indicated Monday he is not pursuing any other college coaching jobs and intends to stay at the University of Memphis.

Gov.-elect Bill Lee made another round of cabinet appointments Monday, announcing Williamson County Sheriff Jeff Long, a former police officer at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Memphis, will serve as Safety and Homeland Security Department commissioner.

Gary Williams, one of the city’s favorite chefs, beloved by notable Memphians and the workaday people who jockeyed for a table in his tiny Creole soul food restaurant on Florida Street, died on Dec. 5 of a heart attack.

Head coach Mike Norvell will replace another offensive coordinator after Kenny Dillingham accepted the same position at Auburn. 

As 167 health care providers, researchers and foundation executives from 52 different countries made their way into the Marlo Thomas Center for Global Education and Collaboration auditorium, a slideshow depicted photos from their journey. One group was spotted at B.B. King’s Blues Club the night before, others took pictures upon their arrival at Memphis International Airport, and many took pictures at their final destination, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. 

A substantial development emerged Friday for Summer Avenue and the Highland Heights neighborhood with confirmation that a charter school plans to renovate and move into a large, vacant building on the commercial corridor.

FedEx Express gets a new chief Jan. 1, with a rising star in FedEx leadership taking over for a long-tenured executive who embodies the company’s wealth of home-grown talent.

On the fourth consecutive day of what Memphis City Council chairman Berlin Boyd calls “the situation,” the council again could not muster a quorum of seven members to transact business.

The Memphis Sands Aquifer isn’t in danger of drying up, but it remains in federal litigation, and Tennessee leaders say a long-term look at water needs statewide will help prepare for growth and updated systems. State officials say the aquifer produces the purest drinking water in the nation — 159 million gallons daily for public water supplies.

The Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee's newly elected bishop didn't find her calling until late in life, having pursued careers in research, auditing and law before being ordained at age 41.

The Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators is putting together a legislative agenda that could fit with one of Gov.-elect Bill Lee’s priorities — keeping felons from going back to prison.

You know who had a good night for Memphis Saturday?

ORLANDO — Nobody said that following Memphis sports was going to be all happiness and joy.

After eight games, after four wins and four losses, after trips to Baton Rouge, Orlando and Miami, the Memphis Tigers are the one thing you should have really wanted them to be at this point in the season.

Chris Herrington is joined by Los Angeles Times national NBA writer Dan Woike to talk about the history of the Grizzlies-Clippers rivalry and the surprise season each team is currently having.

Late in the third quarter at FedExForum, Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma ran down an offensive rebound, one of the Lakers’ 19 on the night, and whipped the ball to LeBron James, who exploded over Marc Gasol for a dunk, landed on the floor, and bounced up the stanchion behind the basket, as if the hardwood were instead a trampoline.

At precisely 11:42 a.m. Saturday, the Memphis Tigers ran out of Penny Hardaway bobbleheads.

As Gov.-elect Bill Lee works at disentangling himself from the family-founded Lee Company, state lawmakers say he must take steps to avoid even the appearance of conflict with government contracts the company holds.