Despite all the “top-down” efforts to guide reading instruction, effective teachers know that all programs and methods work for some children, but none work for every child.

The local personal injury law marketplace is not for the faint of heart, as legitimate firms spend millions of dollars on advertising and “bad actors” in the profession engage in illegal solicitation of clients that has triggered the attention of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. 

On stage with the best in the country, Josh Minott made a statement with his impressive play.

Mick Arney holds CBHS to five hits and gets plenty of help.

May 8, 2021: Grizzlies 109, Raptors 99

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De’Anthony Melton made five 3-point shots in the fourth quarter and Jaren Jackson Jr. started for the first time this season.

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The 2006 sculpture honoring Tom Lee’s 1925 rescue of 32 people from the Mississippi River is a prominent part of plans to remake the popular park. But the fate of a 1954 monument that refers to Lee as a “very worthy Negro” is uncertain.

The Tigers face Tennessee on Sunday. 

The 26-year-old native of Ghana native helped Tampa Bay to 2020 Eastern Conference championship.

Shelby County’s reported coronavirus total is now 96,512 cases, including 93,321 inactive cases,1,562 active cases and 1,629 deaths.

The C.A. Davis Printing Co. marks its 100th year of being in business. The two-person shop still operates in the Pinch District at 349 N. Main, where it has completed printing jobs for the past 77 years.

Careful where you step, please. Baby grass is growing on the Overton Park golf course.

On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, the two-time Democratic nominee for the Tennessee General Assembly talks about the new Latino Democratic political action committee Fuerza, for which she serves on the board.

Most educators agree reading instruction in the earliest grades should include phonics, but that’s where the disagreements begin.

Eagles put seven past Northpoint to advance to Tuesday’s region tournament semifinals.

A MPD officer and ATF agent were injured in a shooting Friday. Police said they were searching for a carjacked vehicle when suspects opened fire on them in North Memphis. 

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland announced Friday, May 7, that he is proposing bonus pay for police and firefighters over the next three fiscal years.

The new planning board applications for the June meeting include a 500-plus door truck terminal, a $75 million warehouse park and a proposal for 15-lot subdivision in East Memphis that would use a public street but be gated.

Three-day event has been moved to late November, with a number of top class of 2022 players expected.

Twenty-three-year-old Jake Gelnovatch, who was a college standout at Louisville and recently completed a successful trial with 901 FC, impressed the club with a successful trial.

Lakeland moves forward on initial phase of its athletic complex with two soccer fields and a parking lot.

Tennessee legislators moved in the final days of their just-completed session to ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants, both changes sought by activists in the wake of the police-involved deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.

Bhan Thai, Molly Smith’s restaurant on Peabody Avenue that opened in 2002, has closed its doors for the last time. Smith officially shut down on the day she usually hosted the fundraiser Cinco de Thai-O.