The St. Jude Memphis Marathon raised $15.7 million in 2024, the highest total in its 23-year history, with a little spice and a lot of love. 

Hundreds made crafts, ate and danced to celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Brooks Museum on Saturday.

On Friday, Brothers will celebrate the coach whose youthful experiment turned into a legendary career.

Gretchen Wollert McLennon first stepped dance shoes in Ballet Memphis at 11 years old. Now, after five years building on the company’s legacy, she’s taking a bow. 

The event included a cake cutting and the annual proclamation of Elvis Presley Day.

Elvis’ Sun Records sessions might be his deepest music, but 2002’s “30 #1 Hits” may actually be a truer testament to Presley’s legacy. 

Groups huddled in the cold in view of the police Skycam that caught much of the grisly action on Castlegate Lane in Southeast Memphis on Jan. 7, 2023.

Don Nix, who played with the Mar-Keys, produced numerous records for famous acts and contributed “Going Down” to the rock lexicon, has died.

The Rev. Dr. Reginald Porter Sr., who was devoted to his faith and the South Memphis community he served, died on Christmas Eve at age 76.

Nonprofit ShowerUp will help give “a little boost” to those who need it at the Hospitality Hub. 

It might be the clue every “Jeopardy!” contestant dreams of, one that’s tailored to that person and arrives at the perfect time. That’s what happened to Laura Faddah, a Germantown resident who appeared on the show.

Prominent in the CME denomination on the national scene, as well as serving as bishop for Arkansas and Tennessee, Bishop Henry Williamson died on Christmas Day after a short illness. He was 76.

Melvena Leake leads Karat Place, a nonprofit that helps women recently released from prison find their way back into society through a residential program that provides job training.

A Memphis Quaker group will give native fruit trees — mulberry, plum elderberry and more — to a community garden in honor of loved ones for Christmas.

“We feel like it’s part of our job, especially on Christmas Day of all days, to get up and give back the way we know how, which is with a good meal and some company,” said owner Patrick Koplin at the restaurant’s 25th annual holiday community meal. 

This coming May will mark 100 years since the 1925 river rescue, when Tom Lee saved 32 people from the Mississippi River south of Memphis after their boat capsized.

Hollywood sound designer Watson Wu spent a week in Memphis in 2022 recording sounds at the zoo for “Mufasa: The Lion King.”

Memphis athletic director Ed Scott said he never imagined that on a work trip he’d lose his friend of 14 years. Tigers associate AD Marlon Dechausay suffered a heart attack while in Hawaii for the Maui Invitational. He died Dec. 4.

The Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering Phoenix football team brought home the Class 1A TSSAA High School BlueCross Bowl Football Championship, the first charter school to win the title, and had a parade to celebrate.

The rapper, whose real name is Gloria Woods, graduated from Orange Mound’s Melrose High in 2017. On Wednesday, Dec. 18, she returned with a $25,000 check towards a new media center for the school.

Aided by more than 130 volunteers, Team Max distributes 6,000 large food baskets to those in need, including 3,000 handed out on a chilly Saturday morning at the Mid-South Food Bank in South Memphis.

Runners braved a chilly December morning to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

An estimated 22,500 runners took part in Saturday’s St. Jude Memphis Marathon to raise money for the children’s hospital. Nearly every one of them had a story to tell about someone they know touched by illness.

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