Memorial Day signals the beginning of summer.

For row after row, many of the headstones bear no name. 

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“It’s just been amazing what we’ve done with just our sheer talent, just wanting to write and be heard,” Bria Saulsberry said.

“This lifestyle is about living in the moment,” Amy Pearson said. “You don’t have to have a big house to have a big life.”

CBS Radio News ends broadcasting Friday, May 22, after nearly a century airing on hundreds of radio stations across the country. The end is another change in a way of reporting that is becoming harder to find and define.

Farmington Elementary student Josh Verma hopes to be the fourth Memphis-area student to win the whole thing.

Winning pitmaster Jacey Blurton, 13, began manning the grill five years old, taking up barbecue after three surgeries left her with limited mobility.

The Memphis Area Association of Realtors Commercial Council has renamed its annual tournament.

Better Men Better Families provides mentorship, brotherhood and financial-literacy programs to men from South Memphis. Its president and co-founder Curtis Hines is driven by his own experiences and a deep sense of responsibility.

“I remember us being chased by the Klan in Moscow, Tennessee,” Dekater Horton said, “because you are driving in a car with a white woman. It was in the middle of the day. We got on a dirt road, and they couldn’t catch us. It was normal, honestly.”

For these three female entrepreneurs, their businesses grew as their families did, alongside challenges, memories and meals.

More than 100 people gathered Saturday for the Bluff City Brawl, a celebration of the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie and Gaelic football.

Mid-South Transplant Foundation hosted an event to plant eight trees in the Beaver Lake picnic area at Shelby Farms Park, honoring the eight lives that can be saved through organ donation.

The Memphis River Parks Partnership announced the change Friday, May 8, as it honored recipients in the 5th annual Tom Lee Poetry and Spoken Word competition.

NBA teams spend half a season subtly selling losing as long-term investment — while asking fans to still show up and pay — only for the reward to be a 30-minute television product sandwiched between Taco Bell and State Farm commercials.

Longtime local attorney and former judge Gerald Skahan has died. He was 61.

“We’re trying to combat loneliness,” said the operator of Second Helpings Cafe. 

A few decades ago, stars like Tom Cruise, Matt Damon and Reese Witherspoon were shooting movies in Memphis. Longtime local film commissioner Linn Sitler discusses what’s changed and why there’s hope for the future. 

Stories of Stones event guides guests through historic Elmwood Cemetery, where many burial markers provide much more than names and dates.

When Noah Schepman was one, his dad built him a tiny wheelchair. Now Schepman’s tennis coach calls him “the fastest kid — on feet or wheels — that I’ve ever seen.”

Baker’s son Austin Baker said his father told him, “we are all stewards. Everything we own, someone’s owned before us, and someone will own it when we’re gone. It’s up to us to pay it forward while we’re here.” 

Some seniors at local high schools are playing a game called Senior Assassin, crouching behind bushes, stalking other students in stores and wearing swim gear to protect themselves.

This year’s Young, Green & Gifted program capped off with a restoration project at T.O. Fuller State Park. But their reach goes all the way to the Tennessee House of Representatives. 

The 81-year-old Mason Temple is getting a renovation, the latest in a series for the landmark that has a dramatic history as the place where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech the night before he was assassinated.