“I hope that people are keeping score at home and try to pay attention to what’s happening to this guy,” said the DeSoto County district attorney.

“If I wanted to have a sophisticated school, I would have ballet,” Principal Louis Padgett said. “I want (the) boys and girls to be more sophisticated than myself. I said I’d never leave this school until it had ballet.” 

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“No matter what I’m doing, I spend (time) investing in kids and neighborhoods. At New Ballet, I get to do it in a way that’s fresh and exciting.”

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Year-to-date home sales hit 2,344, up 18% from the same period a year ago. However, sales were down from last month.

She will head team of 20 at the university responsible for internal communication, marketing, media relations, graphic design, social media, photography and videography.

Memphis Mayor Paul Young is hosting a newly formed coalition of Black mayors from 12 states. 

“Rental property owners can reduce crime by utilizing police calls for service information at their properties. This is no untested theory. It is a proven method that has been put into practice in other crime-ridden neighborhoods in Memphis. And it works.”

Last year’s Asian Night Market event was packed, and organizers have a plan for how to handle for this year’s crowds. 

The new Memphis location is the second Tennessee branch for the Alabama-based commercial bank, which has assets exceeding $16 billion. 

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By the end of the first quarter, the Nuggets had put 40 points on the board, 16 of them from once and perhaps future MVP Nikola Jokic.

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Two men were arrested following a shootout and chase with law enforcement that spanned two DeSoto County cities and ended with a standoff at a Southaven warehouse. 

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There are several hurdles Principle Toyota must overcome before it could relocate to Collierville.

Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Melissa Boyd’s bond could be revoked for continued use of drugs and alcohol.

“Pine Hill needed a win,” Mayor Paul Young said at the opening of the new clubhouse, which overlooks the revamped golf course in Longview Heights that opened last June.

A retro but fresh bluegrass duo, an experimental music lineup, a violin concerto composed by a modern jazz legend and performed by one of classical’s most celebrated violinists, one of R&B’s modern greats and a west coast hip-hop heroine come to Memphis in April. 

Geronimo Kee’s second outburst came after his March 11 arraignment, when he also argued with Judge Christian Johnson.

“Today I don’t want to own (a restaurant), but I can never stop cooking,” Chef Tamra Patterson said. “Cooking is in my blood — it’s all I know to do.”

Standouts from Arlington, Collierville, Lewisburg, MUS and Northpoint are up for consideration this week. 

“We kind of have a volume problem,” OUTMemphis executive director Molly Quinn said of the at least 18 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in the Tennessee General Assembly this year.

“And when we saw this idea ... we really loved it, because we think it really humanizes our couriers,” said Katherine Flee, head of global sponsorships and advertising. 

Today’s sudoku is a hard one.

Tears flowed after Houston beats Texas A&M and Clemson knocks off Baylor in NCAA Tournament games at FedExForum.

But, Texas A&M wouldn’t go down easy. Houston had to earn every bit of this victory.

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