The 2021 lottery pick has a long way to go, but the Grizzlies remain committed to his development. 

The organization will enlist the help from volunteers in the community and from four partner organizations to give the neighborhood a good fall cleaning. 

The co-founder of Outdoors Inc. joined Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of The Sidebar. 

Early reaction among the city’s representatives in Washington the day of the House vote approving the $2 trillion Biden adminstration domestic agenda focused on a provision that would expand TennCare coverage that the Tennessee Legislature has refused to expand.

Debra Rich, a cosmetologist and active community member in South Memphis and Horn Lake, spent years researching these inventors and published her findings in “Black Inventors Who Changed History” this year. 

Doses of Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson will be offered.

Social media platforms were buzzing with posts, tweets and remembrances from and about Memphis this week.

The statewide group working for LGBTQ equality called a pair of tirades by council member Edmund Ford Sr. at Tuesday’s council session “bullying, trolling and abusive.”

Gov. Bill Lee tweeted at 8:30 this morning he would not renew Tennessee’s state of emergency after it expires tonight.

The move to expand comes as new COVID-19 cases have climbed steadily over the last two weeks, especially in states where colder weather is driving people indoors.

They had their doubters, but leaders from three counties in the Tupelo, Mississippi, area believed in their vision for rebooting the local economy. 

Dillon Brooks was true to form, annoying the Clippers even as he let his play do the talking.

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The Tigers, who have struggled on offense in recent weeks, will be encountering the sixth-ranked defense in the nation.

A chef, a commissioner, and other Memphians are offering ways to support Makeda’s Cookies

The Tigers basketball coach and fellow hometown star said on Instagram video: “To get murdered like that, it just doesn’t sit well with me.”

This isn’t the same Hilltoppers team from a year ago, but the Tigers still should be motivated.

The center’s newly renovated, 118,000-square-foot exhibit hall was recently used as the set for a History Channel commercial featuring Morgan Freeman. 

Construction on the new Fire Station No. 1, at 225 Chelsea Ave., began Thursday morning. To celebrate, the City of Memphis Division of Fire Services hosted a groundbreaking ceremony in the afternoon.

Fans of slain rapper Young Dolph Thursday streamed by the cookie shop where he was shot Wednesday to pay respects as police investigated another shooting near the site. 

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Pervis Payne will not face the death penalty and will instead get two consecutive life terms, District Attorney General Amy Weirich announced Thursday, Nov. 18.

BlueCross Bowl berths are on the line in Division 2, while MAHS and Covington travel for quarterfinal games.

A cornerstone of the Tigers has found his production stymied by early foul trouble.

City Council member Martavius Jones is the first member of the body to react to several angry outbursts by fellow council member Edmund Ford Sr. at Tuesday’s session. 

Starting this week, The Daily Memphian will begin publishing a year-long series of in-depth, extensive reporting on crime in Memphis.