World Central Kitchen and local volunteers are delivering meals to folks in need in Covington and Wynne, Arkansas.

Dorothy’s Cottage is named in memory of the late Dorothy Lee Wilson, wife of Holiday Inn founder Kemmons Wilson, for her dedication to children and families. 

The White House reaction to the threatened expulsion of three Democratic state Representatives by the majority Republican leadership of the Tennessee House includes calls for an assault weapons ban among other measures.

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Memphis’ 2022-23 season offered plenty of shining moments.

The city council meets Wednesday, April 5, in special session to take the first of three votes on changes to its district lines for the October elections.

Arlington’s medical services grow as OrthoSouth opens its ninth clinic in the same medical complex as Baptist’s new emergency department that opened in January at 5150 Airline Road. 

Arlington officials got a look this week at master plans for a new Town Hall and the surrounding amenities, along with the future improvements of parks.

An additional suspect in the shooting at Prive restaurant was apprehended by U.S. Marshals and local law enforcement agencies, and a third suspect has been identified by the Memphis Police Department.

New Memphis offensive line coach Jeff Myers likes to highlight to recruits that his head coach is an offensive line guy.

Memphis will make its sixth Maui Jim Maui Invitational appearance in 2024.

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Amy Lenkszus opened Sumits Yoga eight years ago. Now she’s expanding what the Germantown studio created, rebranding it as SANA Yoga under her direction, including licenses for new locations.

We’ll have one more breakfast/brunch option next month when the second location of The Liquor Store opens at Williamsburg Village.

Jim Strickland is bullish on the Memphis Tigers as a deserving candidate for promotion from the American Athletic Conference as the Big 12 and Pac-12 look to expand.

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Olive Branch used cutting-edge software to create priority list of the top 15 streets in need of repaving and other improvements.

The National Civil Rights Museum will break ground May 16 on the expansion of the museum’s Legacy Building.

Tommy’s Burgers has opened in the old CK’s at Park Avenue and Mt. Moriah Road with an extensive, diner-like menu with a Mexican twist. 

Brody Winemiller’s first-inning home run the highlight as the Dragons improve to 14-2.

The Shelby County Commission postponed indefinitely a plan to buy the Metro Shopping Plaza, which is on the northwest corner of E.H. Crump Boulevard and Danny Thomas Boulevard.

Last summer, the Shelby County Health Department’s air monitoring branch was operating with only two employees, and the State of Tennessee gave the local program until June of this year to resolve the issue. 

Tennessee Republicans on Monday, April 3, introduced resolutions to expel state Reps. Justin Pearson, Justin Jones and Gloria Johnson after their protest in favor of gun-safety legislation last week. They could be voted on as soon as Thursday.

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The Shelby County Commission chose former city council member Janet Hooks to be Wanda Halbert’s special adviser.

More than 100 participants have higher point totals than The Daily Memphian’s own Geoff Calkins, John Martin and Parth Upadhyaya.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has proposed $140 million to establish a school resource officer (SRO) grant fund that would place a trained, armed security guard at every public school in the state, among other measures.

As storms moved through the Mid-South last Friday night, the National Weather Service estimates that a tornado swept across a rural section of DeSoto County.