Memphis basketball held UAB to 17 points in the second half. 

Late Antonio Gibson touchdown catch gives Memphis its first AAC conference championship.

St. Jude Marathon, which is a qualifying event for the Boston Marathon, attracts many top-tier long distance runners from around the country.

Entertainment lawyer Bruce Newman’s annual benefit concert will support Protect Our Aquifer. Musicians Maria Muldaur, Ruthie Foster and Dom Flemons are among the performers.

Longtime marketer Cynthia Ham took a chance on youth development in 2012, when she became CEO of BRIDGES. As she retired from the job this week, she said she learned an investment in Memphis' youth is the most important investment in building community.

Starbucks has recently tightened access to bathrooms and installed needle-disposal boxes at some of its core-Memphis coffee shops.

The race to replace Republican state Rep. Jim Coley in House District 97 is shaping up with a Democrat and another Republican joining the fray.

A Houston-based business consultant is proposing a solution to blighted and vacant properties in northwest Frayser after touring the neighborhood several months ago. 

Collierville celebrated the season with its 43rd annual Christmas Parade Friday. Santa, government leaders, schools and local businesses all participated.

Cincinnati and Memphis line up at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium on Saturday afternoon with a conference trophy on the line and – for the Tigers – a possible spot in the Cotton Bowl.

Hai Trieu, a former R & D researcher at Medtronic, has trained his brain to find solutions. Now he has 130 U.S. patents to his name, including more than 100 in spinal surgery alone. This week, he's among 168 fellows around the world elected to the National Academy of Inventors.

Richard W. Smith talks about his role at the Greater Memphis Chamber, the Memphis economy and job market, and his various roles at FedEx Express with Bill Dries, reporter for The Daily Memphian, and host Eric Barnes.

Mayor Jim Strickland has raised the possibility of layoffs and garbage service cutbacks six days into the new year if the Memphis City Council doesn’t reconsider its decision to reject a solid waste fee hike.

Superintendent Joris Ray believes Shelby County Schools will be able to more effectively control the behavior of officers if they report directly to the district.

The Shelby County Assessor and his director of residential appraisal, on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, pointed to bringing back commercial development first in Orange Mound and working on seeding infrastructure for a later residential revival. 

Eric Robertson talks about the many ways – some complicated, some simple – that economic development can be brought to neighborhoods all across Memphis.

Guard De'Anthony Melton and forward Bruno Caboclo have had to bide their time, but are now getting more of an opportunity with the Grizzlies. 

Has there ever been a Saturday like this in Memphis? No. There will be 25,000 people in the St. Jude Marathon and another 40,000 or so watching the American Athletic Conference championship game in the afternoon. 

Youth Villages is adding 200 staff members at its Bartlett campus in connection with a $22 million expansion of the nonprofit organization's intensive treatment center.

Jacob Hatcher's fourth-quarter touchdown run is the difference as ECS shuts down CPA in the second half.

Tigers coach Penny Hardaway is challenging his team to step up on the boards against UAB on Saturday. 

A bid by the Sheraton Downtown Memphis Hotel to block incentives for a new Loews convention center hotel in Memphis has been dismissed in Davidson County Chancery Court.

Shelby County Property Assessor Melvin Burgess and Ken Washington, deputy administrator over residential appraisal in the assessor’s office, discuss the Orange Mound Initiative.

Tampa, Florida-based health care company ChenMed set to open three senior primary care clinics in Memphis. 

The goal of the meeting at a private Christian school in southeast Memphis was to tell families that starting next year, they could be eligible for up to $7,300 in education voucher money to send their children to a private school or to use for other private services.