Guaranty Bank & Trust to buy First Alliance Bank
The holding company for Mississippi-based Guaranty Bank & Trust Co., Guaranty Capital Corporation, has agreed to buy Memphis’ First Alliance Bank in an all-cash transaction.
The holding company for Mississippi-based Guaranty Bank & Trust Co., Guaranty Capital Corporation, has agreed to buy Memphis’ First Alliance Bank in an all-cash transaction.
University of Memphis and Kroger are offering $10 tickets for the Tigers Sept. 7 game against Southern University with a donation going to the Mid-South Food Bank.
The murder trial for Billy Ray Turner, accused in the fatal shooting of former NBA star Lorenzen Wright, has been delayed after prosecutors introduced new information Thursday, Aug. 22.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland has a full calendar of groundbreakings and openings as an incumbent campaigning on his record. Challenger Tami Sawyer, meanwhile, is appealing to fellow millennials to resist the call of other cities as well as the momentum Strickland is claiming.
Cherisse Scott, CEO of the reproductive rights advocacy organization SisterReach, was removed from a Senate hearing in a now-viral video clip. However, she says she's energized, not discouraged by the incident.
House Speaker nominee Cameron Sexton is asking the state attorney general whether the House can oust someone for actions that took place a quarter-century before election, apparently referring to embattled state Rep. David Byrd.
The County Commission’s budget and finance committee Wednesday put off until its next meeting a vote on a resolution to award a $50,000 grant to an existing rugby program on the site of Vance Middle School.
Shelby County Commission committees Wednesday sent several measures to the full commission meeting without a recommendation, including a request for a study on school district workers who do not make $15 an hour.
A portion of Frank Road is closing next week for pipe repairs.
House Speaker nominee believes gun laws should be handled at the federal level for the sake of uniformity.
Work on the Prentiss Place parking lot is the first of three phases and sets the stage for the next two phases starting this fall or winter. The work also begins as the new president of the zoo talks about a change in the zoo's direction.
The Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators is set to request the TBI investigate potential “public corruption” in the former House Speaker’s Office and also look into a special prosecutor from Coffee County handling a black activist’s case.
Shelby County Commission committees will consider Wednesday legislation to pay county employees $15 an hour. Commissioners also will consider measures giving a $50,000 grant for a rugby field and rescinding a resolution that amended how county properties are named.
City council members Tuesday approved the city's $3 million portion of the $19 million Leftwich Tennis Center expansion project.
The city council Tuesday approved expanding a program to pay fines and fees to restore driver's licenses to include criminal court. And the city is checking on the status of 14 works of public art at the city's old Cordova auto inspection station before the council votes on selling the station.
The University of Memphis' new pedestrian cable bridge will be named in memory of Hunter Harrison, whose career took him from a Memphis switchyard to front offices of four railroads.
Nashville representative plans to renew push for resolution denouncing hate groups across Tennessee, saying the state has played too big a role in allowing them to grow.
An ongoing dispute between Lausanne Collegiate School and its residential neighbors is headed to court but made a stop at the City Council along the way.
Germantown's Board of Education discussed a proposed land exchange with the city Monday, and members want a meeting with aldermen to hammer out details.
State Rep. Jim Coley of Bartlett is “calling off” a delegation trip to the Far East unless members want to pay expenses out of pocket.
Glass is being phased out of Collierville's recycling system over the next four months.
The council agenda Tuesday includes discussions about selling the old Cordova auto inspection station, allowing temporary closure of an Overton Square street and expanding a program that helps those with suspended drivers licenses pay fines and fees once they have met other terms.
A building permit application valued at $1.8 million has been filed for a Lamar Avenue warehouse.
Three new homes and three newly renovated houses will be featured in Central Garden’s Home and Garden Tour from 1-6 p.m., Sept. 8.
Memphis Mayoral contender and Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer is mounting a complex challenge of incumbent mayor Jim Strickland. The challenge combines promises of disruption with national issues as Sawyer seeks to fuse activism with electoral politics.