The 247Sports Composite Rankings places Brandon Warner as the No. 1,339 overall prospect in the country and No. 36 in Tennessee.

To date, the EDGE committee has awarded $179,000 to 32 businesses throughout the NEED grant program.

With 49 new cases in Shelby County between Thursday and Friday, the overall rate of positivity continues its fall well below 10%.

FedEx Logistics joins FedEx Office and FedEx Freight as entities of Memphis-based FedEx Corp. that have implemented temporary, unpaid furloughs because of business conditions arising from COVID-19.

Nursing homes are among the hardest hit by the coronavirus - nearly four in ten deaths in Shelby County occurred in those facilities.

The Shelby County Health Department has advised against large in-person graduation ceremonies, according to a letter by Gary Lilly sent to Collierville seniors and parents.

“At some point this pandemic will have run its course and we’ll get back to normal. ... Now, the question is when?’’

That brings the statewide total to 19,394 confirmed cases and 315 deaths.

“My sense was that the money should have been distributed in the same way we distributed Title I money. I think that’s what most of Congress was expecting,” the Tennessee Republican said, referring to the federal program that supports students from low-income families.

The 6-foot-2 wide receiver tweeted Thursday afternoon that he entered the transfer portal. 

The details of the winning proposal for the new voting machines were made public Thursday with the signature of Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris. Still to come is approval of funding by the Shelby County Commission.

Former Georgetown player Mac McClung wants to improve his point guard skills for the NBA. There's no better teacher than Tigers coach Penny Hardaway.

Gov. Bill Lee said the State Attorney General has filed a request for the Tennessee Supreme Court to take the Education Savings Account case and allow it to move forward while the case is on appeal.

How do you measure 6 feet of social distance in Elvis speak? Where the Memphis Zoo stenciled 6-foot markings of snakes and alligators on the ground when they reopened, Graceland has gone with six gold records or six teddy bears.

Mayor Jim Strickland’s proposal to expand testing moves the city closer to a more ambitious scaling up of COVID-19 testing as local health experts explore an even broader scale for the long term.

Tennessee's unemployment rate in April was the highest on record, eclipsing a low-water mark that had stood since 1983.

Enthusiasm and motivation are high as 901 FC players begin to transition back to doing what they do best.

Memphis International Airport passenger traffic fell 95% in April and appeared to start rebounding in May, while cargo activity strengthened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Judges noted The Daily Memphian "had the best user interface in the category and the most balanced design with graphics and text" in awarding first place for best website.

Shelby County's positivity rate has declined slightly with a small increase in cases due to more than 1,400 administered tests Wednesday.

The venue also has become "home" to 901Wrestling, which hopes to resume live matches around mid-June when the Rec Room plans to reopen.

Gov. Bill Lee said he signed an executive order Thursday allowing groups of 50 to participate in social and recreational activity. But he continued to point toward the importance of social distancing as people gather. The order includes Shelby County and five other counties with health department independent of the state.

Memphis will play Arkansas State eight times over the next 10 seasons after agreeing to a new four-game series. 

Tennessee reported 6,081 new jobless claims from the Memphis area, raising nine-week total to 86,080 in southwest Tennessee and likely pushing it to more than 103,000 in the metro area.

In the wake of Wednesday's NCAA vote to allow football and men's and women's basketball players to return to campus starting June 1, Memphis president David Rudd says the athletic department has a plan for football players to return "in the near future."