“Our local veterans are resolute about receiving their care at our facility, and we want to keep them safe during the ups and downs of COVID-19 community spread.”

The event will take place Thursday, May 26 in Atlanta and will be available to stream.

A new exhibit chronicles the Shell’s more than eight-decade existence and pays tribute to some of the musicians who have played there. 

Local Starbucks workers were prepared for a union victory Tuesday, May 24. But, minutes before the results of a late April vote to unionize were to be reported, they got some bad news.

It continues to be a much quieter offseason than Memphis basketball fans are used to. But maybe that isn’t such a bad thing.

She and her investors have bought up 400 lots in the North Memphis neighborhood and are ready to build a community where Black people can build wealth in their homes. 

But the Shelby County Commission still has some dollar figures to crunch and some conflicting calculations to resolve before it can close the books on another budget season. 

In 1968, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis to support the sanitation workers’ strike as part of the campaign.

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There were seven votes on the county commission for the first of three readings on creating the first dedicated source of recurring local funding for the city-owned bus system. But there are amendments ahead. 

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A look at where the Grizzlies are headed this offseason, and which prospects helped their case at the NBA combine. 

David Diehl will join the Tigers’ coaching staff as a quality control coach. 

Some of the area’s top athletes are vying for repeat titles or to take their teams to long-awaited championships at Spring Fling in Murfreesboro.

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The Cooper-Young Garden Walk returned this past weekend for the seventh year. Visitors had a chance to drop into more than 100 gardens in the eclectic Midtown neighborhood. Some of the gardens included peeks at artist studios, chicken coops, beehives, composters and more. This year’s Garden Walk theme was hats.

Wright pleaded guilty in 2019 to the murder of her ex-husband and former NBA player Lorenzen Wright in 2010.

COVID-19 resulted in fewer donations for Genesis Legacy Whole Body Donation Foundation, a non-transplant anatomic donation organization that shares space with the Medical Education and Research Institute. 

David May leads the Chairman’s Circle, the 145 most influential executives in Memphis. He’s also leading the massive regional effort to improve the workforce as it prepares for Blue Oval City’s demands.

Of the city’s roughly 1,900 commissioned officers, about 61% are on patrol. 

“I understand major renovations (at FedExForum) are going to be needed,” Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said, “but I don’t think it’s scary at all.”

The national tour of “Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People’s Campaign” debuted at the Memphis museum in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. 

The flight from the Ramstein Air Base in Germany to Indiana transported the equivalent of 1.5 million 8-ounce bottles of three formulas, all of which are hypoallergenic for children with cow’s milk protein allergy.

Germantown’s $201 million budget had a unique set of challenges compared to recent years. Rather than unknown impacts of COVID-19, inflation was a major concern in preparing the financial plan.

Worth Morgan, the Republican nominee for Shelby County Mayor talks about the terrain of the 2022 county general election and what the defeat of Ken Moody in the primaries means for the general election.

“... women of color on average possess significantly less wealth than white men and women alike, the St. Louis Fed analysis finds.”

Whitehaven High graduates had a notable speaker, Gov. Bill Lee, and the Crosstown High commencement was that school’s very first graduation ceremony.

“We only serve spicy,” said Flame MaLaTang manager William Weng of the new pop-up in the Viet Hoa Food Market at 40 N. Cleveland St.