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  • Music

    Elvis Tribute Artist Weekend held at Graceland

    Past tribute artist contest winners performed their favorite Elvis gospel songs backed up by the Graceland-endorsed EAS Band. 

    By Kambui Bomani February 13, 2024
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    60 years after passing audition, Stax’s Deanie Parker is double Grammy nominee

    After a career that shifted into marketing, publicity and non-profit management, this moment has brought Deanie Parker full circle, back to her beginnings as a singer and a songwriter. 

    By Chris Herrington February 01, 2024
  • Neighborhoods

    Shelby County offers free classes at neighborhood gyms

    Participating gyms will provide free, 50-minute group fitness classes that are beginner-friendly and suitable for residents ages 16 and up. 

    By Aisling Mäki January 30, 2024
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    Two Memphis sites could be added to National Register of Historic Places

    An Italianate home in South Memphis and an early middle-class housing complex in Midtown have been nominated for the National Register of Historic Places.

    By Kambui Bomani January 26, 2024
  • Health Care

    Memphis facility to make gene-editing treatment for sickle cell

    Boston-based Charles River Laboratories manufactures clinical and commercial cell and gene-modified cell therapies at its Shelby Drive facility. 

    By Aisling Mäki January 14, 2024
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    One of Orange Mound’s own finds space for kids in his neighborhood

    Fueled by a desire help children fulfill their educational potential as well as developing a relationship with God, Howard Eddings willed the Opportunity Zone into existence.

    By Jane Roberts January 14, 2024
  • Music

    Fans flock to Graceland to celebrate the King’s birthday

    At the birthday celebration, Joel Weinshanker presented an acetate record of Elvis Presley’s “That’s Alright Mama,” which was the late singer’s first commercial recording. 

    By Kambui Bomani January 08, 2024
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Whitehaven’s IMC Supply sold to Tacoma firm

    Based in Tacoma, Washington, Stellar Industrial Supply distributes more than 90,000 maintenance, repair and operation products and tools from more than 1,500 brands for metalworking, safety, marine supply and other industries. 

    By Aisling Mäki January 03, 2024
  • Real Estate

    Former Electrolux plant bought by Milwaukee group

    Phoenix Investors acquires and renovates former manufacturing facilities nationwide. The vacant Memphis Electrolux plant is next on its list. 

    By Sophia Surrett December 27, 2023
  • South Memphis

    ‘We are selling things to help you live your best life’

    Viara Viara, owner of a plant-based manufacturing business, is doing her part to make the vegan lifestyle accessible to everyone by opening Wholey Goods in Whitehaven. “I want other people to experience what I’ve experienced..” 

    By Sophia Surrett December 24, 2023
  • South Memphis

    In from the cold: TVA shows off Allen Plant improvements

    Following last year’s Winter Storm Elliott and mandatory, rolling blackouts, the TVA has invested about $123 million to prepare its equipment for extreme weather. 

    By Mary Cashiola December 14, 2023
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    Strolling from Stax to Sun? Proposed ‘Art Line’ could make it a reality

    “About three years ago, the railroad tore out the tracks and then they just stopped taking care of it, and that’s how we got it,” said Brendan Duffy. “I just kept emailing and calling around to different people, and they sent me a lease.”

    By Chris Herrington December 04, 2023
  • South Memphis

    Old Melrose High shows signs of new life

    What was once Melrose High School will reopen in the fall as both a public library and senior housing. On Monday, Orange Mound community leaders got a sneak peek. 

    By Bill Dries November 28, 2023
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    Death of Whitehaven restaurant owner leaves community stunned

    Alfonzo Turner, owner of Tha Table, was shot Sunday, Oct. 29, outside of his restaurant, 3250 Elvis Presley Blvd., and later died in the hospital. Another man was found dead from a gunshot wound in his car at the same scene. 

    By Julia Baker October 31, 2023
  • Business

    Greater Memphis Chamber will host Small Biz Saturday in Whitehaven

    More than 30 local business will participate in Small Biz Saturday at Whitehaven’s Georgette & Cato Johnson YMCA.

    By Aisling Mäki October 27, 2023
  • Public Safety

    ‘Not willing to give up:’ What focus group participants said about crime

    Residents from neighborhoods across the city expressed their opinions about crime and public safety during a series of conversations in this summer.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff November 07, 2023
  • South Memphis

    TVA considers adding new gas-powered turbines at Allen plant

    The federally owned utility is exploring an idea to install six new aeroderivative combustion turbine units in southwest Memphis. 

    By Keely Brewer October 11, 2023
  • Update South Memphis

    Whitehaven schools went on lockdown after off-campus shooting

    Whitehaven Elementary and Whitehaven High schools went on a precautionary lockdown as police investigated an off-campus shooting Wednesday afternoon.

    By Julia Baker, Aarron Fleming September 28, 2023
  • Neighborhoods

    MEMFix spotlights reimagined Southland Mall

    Greater Whitehaven Economic Redevelopment Corp. leaders say the mall, that once held 60 stores, can again be an anchor for the Whitehaven community.

    By Kambui Bomani September 23, 2023
  • Metro

    Lorean E. Jones, first female federal parole officer in district, dies

    “She had that quiet strength,” State Rep. G.A. Hardaway said of the first female federal parole officer in the Western District of Tennessee, who was also influential in the historic Glenview neighborhood. 

    By Samuel Hardiman September 23, 2023
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    Whitehaven Cold War relic gets historical marker

    The underground fall-out shelter in the gated Lion’s Gate community was built in the early 1960s by Memphis radio and television pioneer Hoyt Wooten.

    By Bill Dries September 22, 2023
  • Sports

    Antonio Harris glad to be back at LeMoyne-Owen

    Before being named lead the Magicians, Harris was head basketball coach at his former high school, Booker T. Washington, for almost a decade.

    By Symone Maxwell September 15, 2023
  • South Memphis

    Characters of yore come to life Elmwood’s annual City of Soul

    The tour is designed to showcase the stories enshrined at Elmwood. In the case of Robert Church and Boss Crump, it shows the vast difference in lives of two men from Holly Springs, Miss. 

    By Jane Roberts September 11, 2023
  • Public Safety

    One year later: Where the cases against Cleotha Henderson and Ezekiel Kelly stand

    Eliza Fletcher was kidnapped and murdered on Sept. 2, 2022. Three days later, a shooting spree paralyzed the city. One man was arrested in each case. Here’s where those cases stand.

    By Aarron Fleming September 04, 2023
  • South Memphis

    South Memphis EtO facility plans to relocate

    The attorney representing Sterilization Services said in a recent letter that the company will leave its Florida Street facility before next May. 

    By Keely Brewer August 31, 2023

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