The 42-year-old owner of a local construction company said he wants to run due to “a perceived age gap on the board.”

It’s time for the second half of Chris Herrington’s annual Memphis Grizzlies Mid-Summer Mailbag. In this installment, he addresses rotation issues, trade deadline matters and more.

Frederick H. Agee says, “The will of the people elected Steve Mulroy and a legislator recklessly proposing to remove him from office through legislative action — and not an election — would be more in line with Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-Un’s dictates than George Washington and Thomas Jefferson’s democracy.”

Are you ready for today’s puzzles? 

University of Memphis fans who come to the FedEx St. Jude Championship next week will have the chance to meet a few Tigers basketball players.

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The new owners said this project will help to define the future look of The Half Shell and should be open by early October.

Officers with the Olive Branch Police Department responded to a traffic incident near Terrace Stone Drive during the early morning hours of Saturday, Aug. 3, later confirming the death of the rising baseball star. 

Under Walker’s leadership, Alpha Omega Veterans Services grew from a duplex in South Memphis to a nonprofit that helped more than 15,000 veterans get training, treatment and access to the benefits they were due.

Players will take part in the Mississippi’s only professional men’s tennis tournament for $25,000 in prize money.

Memphis and UNLV have met five times previously but haven’t faced each other since the Tigers fell to the Runnin’ Rebels 66-62 in the first round of the 1997 National Invitation Tournament.

At least 12 Memphis-Shelby County Schools closed early on the first day of classes Monday, Aug. 5. At least two schools, Sheffield High and Sherwood Middle, will dismiss early on Tuesday due to HVAC issues.

The City Council also could take final action on ground leases for the planned development at Liberty Park. The leases for an entertainment venue, hotel and apartments would bring much-needed sales tax to the Liberty Park Tourism Development Zone.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools welcomed more than 100,000 students back to classrooms for the first day of the 2024-25 school year.

The Daily Memphian projects the MVP, newcomers of the year and most improved players for the 2024 Memphis Tigers football team. 

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Are you ready for it? Here are today’s sudokus. 

This week’s jigsaw puzzle features an image of the new Higginbotham Insurance sign taken by Patrick Lantrip for The Daily Memphian.

Clay Bailey goes down memory lane in a golf cart, celebrating a number of courses that have disappeared from the local landscape.

Coming of age in the COVID-19 pandemic may have influenced Gen Z’s career aspirations. 

How does an NBA talent end up at a Division II school? Jaylen Wells’ family explains how the Grizzlies rookie made such a fast rise through the ranks. 

With fungal infections on the rise and becoming more resistant to treatments, Dr. Brian Peters leads a research lab at UTHSC that is at the forefront of the fight against dangerous fungi.

“Not enough of us understand or respect what Memphis truly is. The Mississippi River is a confluence of 10 to 12 rivers that become one. Memphis is a confluence of cultures. Rich and poor. City and country. Religious and secular. Black and white.”

Natalie McKinney and Tamarques Porter will take elected office for the first time when they are sworn in to the Memphis-Shelby County Schools board. Knocking on doors got them here. 

Of 30 major U.S. cities, Memphis had the highest increase in road deaths from 2019 to 2022, according to a recent analysis from the New York Times. 

While some notable Memphis restaurants have closed recently, here’s what’s driving three local restaurant groups to expand.