Jes Shea leaned down to light the cookstove in her Sprinter van. Then the world went “BOOM.” 

First baseman Luken Baker smacked two home runs in the win, his second multi-homer game of the month with Memphis.

Bartlett held its annual Memorial Day event with dozens of residents, veterans and their families. During the ceremony, the suburb was officially recognized for its official Purple Heart City status.

“When you boil it all down: Haggerty is leaving the team that he led to the NCAA Tournament as an All-American, to go to a team that didn’t make the tournament last year, and ultimately for less money than he would’ve made if he had just committed to Penny Hardaway for another season.” 

The oldest Lasallian Brother in the United States, Brother Terence McLaughlin, who integrated Christian Brothers High School in 1963, died Sunday. He was 102.

Guard PJ Haggerty, the 2024-25 AAC Player of the Year, is headed to Kansas State after one season at Memphis.

Here are the top performances by Memphis-area TSSAA track and field athletes through the state championship meets.

Ready for today’s sudokus?

But the property needs a new zoning designation before homes are considered.

“There was a time when drive-in movie theaters — Bellevue, Jaxon, Sky-Vue — were all around town. But you have to be of a certain age to remember where they were.”

But start with the calamari and split the cannoli.

With affordable tuition and help with job placement, Tech901 often attracts career changers, people who are underemployed or stuck in jobs without growth — including many college grads.

This Part 2 of the postseason, pre-offseason Grizzlies Mailbag takes on a few big picture questions and then dips a toe into the 2025 NBA Draft, free agency and trade issues to come. 

Memphis police officers are poised to secure a 5% pay raise.

This week’s puzzle comes from the 16th Orpheum High School Music Theatre Awards on Thursday, May 22. 

Table Ready is designed to fill former Downtown businesses by allowing restaurant owners to try out the property with the Downtown Memphis Commission covering some of the rent and utility costs for a year. 

With the win, Memphis adds to its lead in the season series against Jacksonville with a seven-games-to-five advantage.

Also happening this week: Memorial Day is Monday, and there’s a reception for the work that replaced Midtown’s Union Centre blue-dog paintings.

Since Nike EYBL Session 2 came through Memphis on May 16-18, the Memphis Tigers have offered scholarships to at least 12 high school recruits.

A list of Memphis-area teams and individuals that won state titles in the spring sports during the TSSAA’s Spring Fling.

How about taking in a movie?

“All Americans owe the families of the servicemen and women who died serving our country more than lip service in gratitude, appreciation and reverence.”

“Living this way has flung the doors wide for me to write about things like the Grammys and National Parks and PGA golf and missionaries. ... And it’s all largely because I’ve now been taught to see.”

Since ShelbyCares opened its first neighborhood health hub, Penny Ward has dropped about 100 pounds, stopped taking two medications and seen her blood pressure and blood sugar numbers drop to their lowest in decades.

Shamichael Hallman is the author of “Meet Me at the Library,” which makes the case for the importance not just of libraries but public spaces of all kinds.