After 12 years, the fondue restaurant is expected to return to the Memphis market in late 2026 or early 2027 inside a former Pyro’s Fire Fresh Pizza.

Collierville girls win the state track title while Houston baseball advances to Friday’s championship game. Briarcrest soccer and St. George’s baseball fall in the state championship finals.

Here are Thursday’s top performers, including a lot of Collierville girls track and field athletes, along with a look ahead to Friday’s one event. Houston’s baseball team plays for the state title at 11 a.m.

Fifth-year standouts Lanie Howe and Lola Sprenkle lead the way as the Rebels knocked off Tennessee’s No. 1 team.

After handling Charlotte on Wednesday, the No. 5-seeded Tigers beat No. 4 UAB to earn two victories in a conference tournament for the first time since 2016.

The second-place finisher in one of the MSCS board Democratic primaries — the closest race in the May 5 county primaries — is reportedly weighing a recount.

A judge filed a legal memo a week after his May 14 decision to deny a motion for a temporary pause in implementing the state’s new congressional map. 

The airport is also in the early planning stages of a new rental-car facility. 

Starting pitcher Pete Hansen and reliever Max Rajcic combined to hold the Cubs scoreless.

A Chancery Court in Nashville heard arguments Thursday on a request for a temporary injunction in relation to Tennessee’s new congressional map.

Tony Carruthers was granted a yearlong reprieve after his planned execution was halted on Thursday, May 21.

In this week’s To-Do List, meet the artist behind Wiseacre’s cans, take a storybook tour of Tom Lee Park and get a taste of Cuba. 

Writer Gracie Driver watched as her beautiful salad, with gems of tomato and sliced avocado, was chopped to smithereens before her eyes. 

In the latest incident, task force agents responded to a call at a Memphis-area residence Wednesday evening.

Today’s puzzle is of the Heath Riles BBQ team reaction to winning the grand championship at the Memphis In May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest and was taken by Patrick Lantrip.

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Here are Wednesday’s top performers, along with a look ahead to Thursday’s action in Murfreesboro and Knoxville.

The Memphis Tigers baseball team advances at the American Conference Tournament in Clearwater, Florida.

Despite playing in their first tournament game in program history, Briarcrest looks poised and polished in a victory over Knoxville Catholic.

Employees remain optimistic that management and investors will meet their demands for living wages and better working conditions.

Attendees gathered at Downtown’s Cossitt Library to honor the three finalists for the poet laureate role.

Cedric Coward is the seventh different Memphis player to earn All-Rookie honors over the past seven seasons. 

Earlier in May, xAI (now a part of SpaceX) announced a deal with Anthropic, the company behind the popular artificial intelligence chatbot Claude.

The suit challenges what it describes as an “increasingly commonplace” practice of THP troopers teaming up with federal immigration agents to stop Memphis and Nashville motorists in order to investigate their immigration status.