The president says the university is lucky it doesn't have many classes with a large-lecture format. 

The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased for the second consecutive month, falling to 9.7% in June from 11% in May.

Continuing unemployment claims dipped slightly both locally and statewide for the week.

City of Memphis COO Doug McGowen said the local COVID-19 task force is in search of a “testing czar” to look at coronavirus testing in Shelby County.

Shelby County’s overall positivity rate of coronavirus tests has increased yet again; the number is now 9.8%. Today's positivity rate is 18.4%.

The new EEG test can be set up in less than five minutes, while a typical EEG test takes between 20-30 minutes.

It's Thursday, July 23, and Major League Baseball's season will begin today. We're all going to be eating street food, the Nylon Net building may be getting new life and a wing business is taking flight. 

Hargett called for more federal funding for election procedures in the pandemic without Washington putting any conditions on state election officials in the process. Lawmakers questioned him closely on the state's opposition to expanded absentee balloting even after it was ordered by a state court. 

The college will open for virtual classes Aug. 12, and will monitor coronavirus case numbers to decide whether to reopen the campus after Labor Day.

Germantown Municipal School District has announced it will push back its start date for the fall semester to Aug. 17.

The reopening is one of several measures the city is announcing or considering this week in what looks like a new round of measures in the four-month-old pandemic

The 3-mile ball of ice will make its closest approach to the Earth on Thursday, July 23.

Shelby County, from July 8-22, averaged 342 new cases a day, 2,350 test results and a 14.6% positivity rate, according to Shelby County Health Department data.

So far, the return by voters of the unusually high number of the mail-in ballots hasn't shown up in the early voting turnout figures. Shelby County Elections Administrator Linda Phillips told county commissioners Wednesday, July 22, that some absentee voters may not complete their ballots because they are expecting to see the presidential general election that is on the November ballot.

The store will feature young women’s lines of clothing that will be unique to the area.

A person attending an event with 10 attendees in Shelby County currently has a 40% chance of encountering someone COVID-positive at that event. 

Gov. Bill Lee and the Financial Stimulus Accountability Group have announced the release of $150 million in Coronavirus Relief Funds to help Tennessee nonprofits provide COVID-related relief.

Pinnacle granted payment deferrals on $4.4 billion in loans and issued $2.2 billion in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans to customers affected by the pandemic.

Memphis City Council members voted down a new cell tower in the Glenview Historic District Tuesday, July 21, after objections from homeowners, including three council members.

The state Board of Education will consider the first round of requests Friday. That vote will offer an early glimpse of how far Tennessee will go to help schools navigate COVID-19 at the expense of statewide policies aimed at improving the quality of public education. 

Today is Wednesday, July 22, and we're talking about burgers you missed, ribs you are about to, and what pro athletes are coming to town next week. 

Argument continues on the value of live vaccines to stimulate the immune system in the fight against COVID-19; there is no randomized study yet to prove it.

A Memphis protest echoes a growing call from teachers to start the school year online as coronavirus cases rise nationwide. A recent study of nearly 65,000 people in South Korea showed that children over age 10 spread the coronavirus as easily as adults do.

The Poplar Avenue name change to Black Lives Matter Avenue will be among the items the renaming commission considers. The trio of related measures met with mixed results at Tuesday's Memphis City Council session. An ordinance to give the council final approval of any names changes of streets, parks and public places may get some legal rewording before its first of three votes next months.

In recent weeks, local testing capacity went from being underutilized to the new stance issued by the joint Memphis and Shelby County COVID-19 task force Tuesday.