Memphis traded Xavier Tillman Sr. to the Boston Celtics for two second-round picks.

“North Memphis is not here to save your environment,” Memphis City Council member Michalyn Easter-Thomas said about a proposed facility to keep trees and wood waste out of landfills.

Standouts from Hillcrest and Hamilton continue to set the pace.

The Memphis Tigers now have 38 total signatures for the 2024 class after adding three defensive backs and an offensive lineman on National Signing Day.

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Madden previously helped Memphis navigate “some of the most difficult times in our history,” said MLGW president and CEO Doug McGowen. 

“Southwest is the first place that I feel like adults have looked at me and spoken to me and said, ‘OK, this person has potential. This person can do something and has good ideas'”, said Allyson Harrison.

In 2023, 47 of the nation’s 56 organ procurement organizations, including Tennessee’s, broke records in the recovery of organs for transplant. 

Compass Intervention Center is growing. Plus, Kemmons Wilson Regional Shopping Center has a new occupant, and a Peabody Avenue apartment building has been sold. 

The Tigers will look to carry their newfound momentum into Thursday’s matchup with the Owls.

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Campbell Clinic, ALSAC and ArtsMemphis announce promotions and additions. 

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Testimony continued for a second day in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the financially strapped The Lake District mixed-use development in Lakeland.

The Memphis Grizzlies made it interesting against the New York Knicks in the fourth quarter, but a late comeback attempt fell short. 

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Rep. Mark White (R-Memphis) cited prolonged frustration with the board’s locally elected leadership when explaining his plans to Chalkbeat on Tuesday.

“Less is more. If coach Hardaway can find a way to make fewer substitutions the Tigers may be able to get back on a long winning streak.”

In other action Tuesday, the council approved the reappointment of Robert Knecht as the city’s public-works director.

Rev. Dorothy Wells came to Memphis to attend Rhodes College in the late 1970s. She practiced law 18 years before entering the ministry. 

The latest Daily Memphis Tigers Podcast with Greg Gaston covers coach Penny Hardaway’s rotation, Memphis’ NCAA Tournament path after snapping its losing streak and some football recruiting talk.

Half of the state’s wetlands — often described as “earth’s kidneys — could be deregulated under a new proposal, but lawmakers are looking at a compromise that would take wetlands’ size and quality into account.

Beat writer Drew Hill and columnist Chris Herrington discuss the trade that sent Steven Adams to the Houston Rockets. 

The Tennessee General Assembly passed a law in 2023 taking the power away from local DAs in collateral review of death penalty convictions and instead putting the authority in the hands of the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office. 

Both of Gibson’s Donuts’ large standing mixers broke this past weekend, and no mixers means no quintessential, fluffy, yeast-raised doughnuts. 

The archive of 60 years of Ernest Withers’ photographs joins the national set of historic places as the Beale Street entertainment district marks 10 years of operation and management by the Downtown Memphis Commission.