Attendees gathered at Downtown’s Cossitt Library to honor the three finalists for the poet laureate role.

Cedric Coward is the seventh different Memphis player to earn All-Rookie honors over the past seven seasons. 

Earlier in May, xAI (now a part of SpaceX) announced a deal with Anthropic, the company behind the popular artificial intelligence chatbot Claude.

The suit challenges what it describes as an “increasingly commonplace” practice of THP troopers teaming up with federal immigration agents to stop Memphis and Nashville motorists in order to investigate their immigration status. 

I polled The Daily Memphian’s staff on what our barbecue team’s name should be, if we had one. The answers were pretty incredible.

Activists, elected leaders and politicians from Mississippi and beyond gathered in the state’s capitol Wednesday to rally against redistricting efforts.

Memphis scored two runs to tie the game in top of the ninth before suffering a walk-off loss.

Mike Miller drew the Let It Fly Barn on a napkin for 15 years. Now that it’s finally built, he has brought some of the NBA Draft’s top prospects to Memphis. 

Medical experts say use of out-of-date chemicals and drugs for lethal injections raises risk of prolonged and painful death.

The first of a two-part Grizzlies Mailbag will focus on questions related to the coming draft, with other post-draft offseason questions dominating next week’s follow-up.

Back in 2010, John Isner and Sam Querrey met each other in a memorable ATP final at The Racquet Club. On July 25, they’ll be back in Memphis for an exhibition to help celebrate the return of professional tennis to the city. 

With the completion of all levels of school campuses, Lakeland School System’s board concentrates growth in its $37.8 million budget on benefits for teachers and students.

The privately-held commercial real estate firm bought the warehouse for $4.5 million.

Only New Orleans and Las Vegas among NFL venues have more hotel rooms within a one-mile radius of the stadium, with the Nashville market area projected to have 658 hotels with more than 80,000 hotel rooms by 2030.

Leadership Memphis, Christian Brothers University and The Women’s Advocacy Center announce new leaders. 

Today’s puzzle is from the National Civil Rights Museum’s “Legacy Experience” and was taken by Patrick Lantrip.

Are you ready for it? Here are today’s sudokus. 

Are you a Wordle fan? Try WordRow, a similar game. It’s free to play.

Memphis continues to hold first place in the International League standings.

Here are Tuesday’s top performers, along with a look ahead to Wednesday’s action in Murfreesboro and Knoxville. 

Gryphons hit five home runs in a Division 2-A victory over Webb. Mustangs score three in the top of the seventh to defeat Oak Ridge in Class AAAA. And, TRA advances in softball.

With the ongoing College Football Playoff expansion talks, Memphis Tigers coach Charles Huff says the competitor in him wants to keep it at 12. 

Hendricks is resigning about six months before the end of the term as his family will relocate. He was appointed to the GMSD board in 2025 to finish the term of Dr. Daniel Chatham.

Memphis coach Charles Huff said Memphis plans to join a Power 4 conference in 2028. Was it a guarantee? Not exactly. “I think you’ve got to speak things into existence,” he said. 

The approval “should not be misconstrued as consent,” as Germantown school leaders say there is still money that the city owes the suburban district.