Young adults in Youth Villages' LifeSet program already were living on the edge. And then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and things got tougher. Fortunately, many of the LifeSet clients have, with help, found a way to march on toward their goals.
Here are some of the key dates in the MLGW-TVA saga over the last eight decades, starting with Nov. 6, 1934.
Sometimes it takes a family to find just where you belong.
The political boss believed in public ownership of utilities from the dawn of his considerable influence over the city when he was a city commissioner. And Crump saw private owners of such utilities as political adversaries.
Memphis has left the Tennessee Valley Authority before, for a period that included the city building its own electric power plant. There are a lot of similarities between various turbulent chapters in the city's relationship with TVA as MLGW leaders again consider an exit from the federal agency.
In the midst of a pandemic, some suburbs continue to provide services as sales tax income fluctuates and developments remain steady.
Zoo visitors are paying tribute to beloved elephant Tyranza, and Memphis Zoo officials believe other members of the herd are also mourning their 56-year-old matriarch.
Shelby County Health Department reported 140 new cases of COVID-19 Sunday, More than 10% of the reported tests were positive. Tennessee Department of Health reported 1,764 new cases, with a positivity rate of 9.45%.
New Frayser CDC Executive Director Damon Williams participated in a Q&A with The Daily Memphian ranging from his favorite sports team to where he would take someone if he was giving a Memphis tour.
After two decades in Washington and San Francisco, native Memphian Damon Williams now runs one of the largest neighborhood-based nonprofits in Memphis.
The pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church thinks the first part of Mayor Jim Strickland’s effort to reform the Memphis Police Department didn’t go far enough.
The Chris Hope Foundation was founded in 2015 to help ease the financial and emotional burdens that families face when their child is fighting a life-threatening illness.
From Aug. 22 to Saturday, Sept. 5, the health department reported an average of 146 new cases a day and 1,466 test results a day yielding a 10% positivity rate.
Tyranza, or Ty, died at 56. She was euthanized when her health began to decline dramatically, according to a news release. She held the record for the longest-lived African elephant in North America.
The Shelby County Health Department recorded 92 new coronavirus cases, with a daily positivity rate of 9.8% on 939 tests Saturday. Deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Shelby County rose by four with the total now 394.
The seven public school systems in Shelby County opened in one way or another before the Labor Day weekend with plans that vary to some degree.
The information will be published and updated weekly by the state education department — not the health department — and will rely on reports from the state’s 147 school districts.
The proposal would ban the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office from getting camouflage uniforms and bayonets from surplus federal military stocks as well as militarized and weaponized vehicles or aircraft.
The Health Department also reported three new related deaths on Friday, Sept. 4.
On Saturday night, Memphis and Arkansas State will play a college football game at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium but ESPN's announcers will be in a Bristol, Connecticut, studio. But this is what it takes to make college football happen.
Memphis physicians say the process will have to move at warp speed to be ready by November, which may eliminate time to observe longer-term side effects and for a broader sample of the public to participate in clinical trials.
OK, yes, we're talking about Ja Morant and the Grizzlies winning big, and we've also got the locals who are buying the Germantown Country Club and the artist behind that dreamy sign that popped up on North Parkway. Also, does the Health Department trust us?
An anonymous artist has fabricated and erected — without permission — 12 road signs in 12 states. They look like official traffic signs, but display a short poem. Tennessee's sign was placed along North Parkway, but city crews this week removed it.
Whitehaven player killed Thursday would have been a senior on this year's team.
Faye Smith-Redditt ran the church kitchen like a refuge and a confessional, offering physical and spiritual nourishment to anyone who came in the front door or knocked on the back door.
The state's changes are in line with changing guidance from federal health officials. And they have already been adopted by the independent county health departments in the state's major cities, including Memphis.