Star guard won second straight Division 2-AA Mr. Basketball Award in March.

Starting in June, the giant e-commerce company is making permanent 2,000 "seasonal" jobs it added in Tennessee because of the demand for front-door deliveries caused by the pandemic.

The daily positive rate of 8.8% means the daily rate has increased for five consecutive days.

I would like to dedicate the prom White Station didn’t have in 1967 to our classmates — the students of T.W. Patterson High — and to their quiet courage and inner strength. 

A lot of readers were upset about the suggestion that Memphis Tigers forward Lance Thomas might not stand for the national anthem. So it's time to answer their mail. 

Despite COVID-19 cases continuing to spread statewide, with Tennessee counting 373 more Thursday, Gov. Bill Lee is rejecting a request by the Tennessee Black Caucus to issue an executive order allowing universal absentee voting.

The Lee Administration is projecting COVID-related budget problems that will force the state to trim department budgets by 12% and to push off tax cuts such as phasing out the Hall income tax.

Everyone from Gov. Bill Lee to Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland to a coalition of other elected and community leaders spoke out Thursday, May 28, on the Wednesday night unrest over a Minnesota man’s death at the hands of police.

The Mike Rose Soccer Complex lost five tournament events to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact ran in the "hundreds of thousands of dollars," general manager Kim Talley said. 

Currently, the YMCA is operating 18 child care programs locally for 700 children, said Jerry Martin, YMCA of Memphis and the Mid-South CEO. Once the program begins, that number increases to 41 and up to 3,000 children. 

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office Thursday announced a reopening plan for courthouses that have been closed since mid-March because of COVID-19. 

A football field house building, baseball locker room, multipurpose locker room and concessions for football and soccer are part of the project.

As the NBA looks at a variety of plans to return to the court, the Memphis Grizzlies path to the playoffs has a lot of different scenarios -- some good; some not rewarding the team for its regular-season performance so far.

Nothing is more local — or more Memphis — than high school sports.

Projectability and measurables make Houston's Grayson Hitt an interesting prospect in the upcoming Major League Draft.

The death count is dramatically lower than early warnings, but no less tragic, as coronavirus precautions left many victims to die alone, isolated from their spouses and children, dear friends and clergy.

Laird Veatch said Thursday that he looks forward to listening to Lance Thomas' thoughts about racial injustice in America. 

”That means 6% of our population has stepped forward and asked for a test and received one,” Gov. Lee said during his press briefing.

COVID-19 pushed the April unemployment rates in Memphis and Shelby County to 14.3% and 12.9%, respectively, but those rates remained below the statewide and national averages of 14.7%.

Ninety-year-old saxophonist Herman Green, who was featured in this article by Jared Boyd last May, died Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020 at his home. Memorial Park Funeral Home has charge. 

Memphis forward Lance Thomas tweeted Wednesday that “I’m never pledging allegiance to the American Flag before any of my games or anywhere I’m at ever again." Thomas later took down the tweet, but his anger and disgust is understandable.

The county's $1.4 billion budget is a work in progress, but officials say they're close.

What began as a silent protest of the death of a Minnesota man at the hands of police grew heated Wednesday night, May 27, as counter-protesters confronted the group and Memphis Police shut down a portion of Union Avenue.

Wells Fargo offered the only bid — $43 million — to take ownership of the landmark building in East Memphis.

The Public Health Subcommittee passed Gov. Bill Lee’s legislation severely restricting abortion Wednesday even though it is not set to be heard by the Senate and the governor is not prioritizing it.