When Penny Hardaway debuted at Memphis the first time, people wore tuxes.

Memphis (1-0) overcame second half shooting struggles to down Tennessee Tech 76-61 in head coach Penny Hardaway’s first game.

In early October the National Civil Rights Museum, along with Bridges and Facing History and Ourselves, launched a campaign to encourage empathy.

“People make choices. Choices make history.”

At nearly every stop, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee recalls a moment in his campaign when he introduced himself to a Cumberland County man and got an unexpected response.

We’ll find out by Tuesday night whether there’s a “blue wave” in the midterm elections. But on Election Day eve, the Grizzlies ended their three-game West Coast road trip submerged by a familiar Golden wave.

At his next-to-last campaign stop in his bid for the U.S. Senate Monday evening, former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen had trouble getting in the door of Jim Neely’s Interstate Barbecue in South Memphis.

Tremaine Wilbourn was born to a teen mother who, by the time he was a toddler, was on drugs and allegedly a prostitute.

Everything will be different when Memphis tips off against Tennessee Tech at FedExForum on Tuesday night.

Memphians of a certain vintage may recall a time when the rest of Tennessee disparaged us as Big Shelby. It was a backhanded way of expressing East and Middle Tennessee’s resentment of – and, truth be told, our own vaulting pride in – the power wielded by Memphis and Shelby County in the state’s politics and government.

Memphis (5-4, 2-3 American Athletic Conference) fought off a scrappy East Carolina (2-6, 0-5 AAC) for a 59-41 road win Saturday afternoon.

The Memphis Tigers (5-4, 2-3 American Athletic Conference) won their first road game of the season in a back-and-forth and points-filled contest with the East Carolina Pirates (2-6, 0-5 AAC).

For the first time this season, the Grizzlies found themselves in a single-possession game in the final five minutes.

Head coach Mike Norvell believes there’s no magical solution for what ails the Memphis defense. Only one thing can change the Tigers’ fortunes – hard work.

Amy Schaftlein was an elementary student in the Arlington area in the 1990s when her yellow school bus stopped in front of a blighted house.

The rebidding of the renovation of the Memphis Cook Convention Center has come in below the $175 million the city has to spend on the project.

Driving home their final points in the waning days of the U.S. Senate campaign, Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn rallied with President Donald Trump while former Democratic governor Phil Bredesen spoke at an interfaith prayer lunch Sunday, Nov. 4.

FedEx Corp. announced it will increase shipping rates for three of its subsidiaries, FedEx Express, FedEx Ground and FedEx Freight, effective Jan. 7.

Memphis Police officer Sean Bolton’s killer was headed to life in prison without the possibility of parole, until the officer’s family told prosecutors to reject this offer.

The immigrant caravan of thousands of people walking through Mexico to the U.S. border is creeping into Tennessee’s U.S. Senate race and, predictably, putting the candidates at odds in an already contentious race, this time over whether federal troops should be used there.

Some nights begin with a bang. The 2018 Memphis Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony started with a ball of fire.

Dave Godbout is the winner of the first Indie Memphis Film Festival Black Filmmakers Pitch Rally, as well as its $10,000 prize. 

A total of 188,668 Shelby Countians cast early ballots during the early voting period that ended Nov. 1. The largest turnout day was the last – 20,332 – the only day that topped 20,000.

“The sky’s the limit” is a recurring theme in conversations among students, faculty and administrators of a school for aircraft mechanics in the shadow of FedEx Express’ Memphis world hub.

The last election of 2018 will decide winners and losers in numerous local, state and federal offices and three city referendums.