The city of Olive Branch completed the purchase of Olive Branch Airport on Wednesday, Oct. 31, ending a 45-year run of private ownership of one of Mississippi’s busiest airports.

Mimi Kaufman Clemons was born in Detroit. She came to Memphis about 40 years ago to attend graduate school and was surprised to find such a tight and affiliated Jewish community in the South.

The Memphis Tigers were rolling over Missouri State in the first game of the 2015 season and fans had started leaving Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium early, getting a jump on the traffic.

Brand identity. A pro sports franchise can’t live without it.

The jury in the death penalty trial of Tremaine Wilbourn, the man charged with fatally shooting Memphis police Officer Sean Bolton, was selected Tuesdy night. Attorneys will present opening arguments Wednesday when the trial begins at 9 a.m.. 

FedEx Corp. has announced that it will end a shipping discount alliance with the National Rifle Association, citing an inadequate volume of shipping to sustain the program.

If you’re a hiring manager, there’s a good chance you’re finding it harder to hire this year than one year ago. The unemployment rate just fell to the lowest level since 1969, so the competition is fierce for good workers. In fact, it’s taking 82 percent longer to fill open jobs than just a few years ago in 2010. And, on average, it’s taking companies 31 days to hire.

Northeast Florida Regional Airport executive director Edward Wuellner is in Memphis this week on a mission to bring flights and airlines to Saint Augustine, Florida.

Local construction permit fees would go up for the first time since 2001 as the city and county update International Code standards by the end of the year.

For the last few years, Memphis activist Keedran Franklin said police have sat outside his office in an unmarked car. Some have followed him, and other officers he doesn’t know have approached him and addressed him by name.

After more than a decade with only one hotel on the south side of Tenn. 385 near the Carriage Crossing center in Collierville, two new limited-service hotels are in various stages of development and a third hotel is under consideration.

A group working on changes to the local approach to economic development is recommending a larger role for the Greater Memphis Chamber.

With more than 57,000 vehicles a day passing by on Germantown Parkway and a Walmart Supercenter next door, Target’s soon-to-be-vacated Cordova store shouldn’t stay empty for long, real estate experts say.

The Memphis City Council cannot spend any money publicizing the three city charter referendums on the November ballot until Chancellor Jim Kyle holds a hearing Tuesday on a lawsuit filed Friday by members of the group Save IRV, which is among those campaigning for the defeat of all three amendments.

The Memphis City Council can spend $30,000 to $40,000 of city funds on a “public information campaign” about the three city charter amendment referendums on the Nov. 6 ballot, a court ruled Tuesday, Oct. 30.

It was the pre-Halloween game at FedExForum on Tuesday night and the Grizzlies decided to come out dressed as the road-trip Washington Wizards.

Garrett Temple scored 20 points, Marc Gasol and Mike Conley added 19 apiece and the Memphis Grizzlies sent the Washington Wizards to their fourth straight loss with a 107-95 victory on Tuesday night.

As the Christian Brothers University basketball team is preparing to play an exhibition game against the University of Memphis at FedExForum Friday, the university is exploring a move from Division II to Division III, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. The board of trustees discussed the merits of such a move at its meeting Tuesday afternoon. 

Memphis attorney Marvin Ballin, founder of a criminal defense law firm that includes his son, daughter and grandson, died Tuesday morning.

Have you noticed a recent public outcry to give politicians more time in office? Or to make people have to vote more frequently, or spend more on elections? How about an outcry against majority rule?

Earlier this year at a meeting of a group we call Pastors, Prosecutors and Police, we kicked around ideas about what we could do to improve the lives of our citizens and make Memphis a safer place to live.

Upended by a blue wave in Shelby County’s Aug. 2 election, ex-Register of Deeds Tom Leatherwood is seeking a return to the Legislature, hoping to fill a void left by the late Ron Lollar.

Target’s Cordova location will be one of six stores the retailer will close nationwide, according to a company spokesperson.

Following a mass shooting that killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synogogue Saturday, six Memphians are inviting the local community to not necessarily feel better, but to get better at feeling. Rabbi Micah Greenstein of Temple Israel was already scheduled to lead the October experience that uses music, stories, silence and dialogue to take attendees into “The Mystic” when he got wind of the attack.

We write today to share our grief and sorrow with the Jewish community of Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and with the Jewish community here in the Mid-South. We reach out to our Jewish – and non-Jewish – readers and take a public stand against anti-Semitism. What happened this past Saturday, Oct. 27, is horrific. To our Jewish friends, neighbors, community and national leaders, we say shalom. Peace.