Cal Jennings and Rece Buckmaster both come to the club after being selected in the MLS Super Draft.

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Just moments after Gov. Bill Lee signed an abortion ban into law Monday, July 13, a federal judge blocked the measure from taking effect and set up a court battle with the ACLU-Tennessee.

Blind Bear and other bars and limited-service restaurants are seeking an injunction allowing them to stay open.

Memphis rap's impassioned ode, Playa Fly's 1998 single "Nobody," is arguably as popular today as it was more than 20 years ago. Artists and experts share the story behind its staying power.

In regional ICUs, 62 beds are available. Forty percent of ICU patients are either COVID-19 positive or under investigation for the virus.

Washington Football Inc. says it will drop the controversial name of its NFL team and announce a new name later. FedEx was among companies applying pressure for the change.

TBI report paints a haunting portrait of Brandon Webber, but also poses troubling questions about law enforcement tactics behind his shooting death.

Benjamin Keough, grandson of the late Elvis Presley, has died in California, and his mother, Lisa Marie Presley “is completely heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated," family spokesman Roger Widynowski said in a statement.

The area’s total number of cases is now 13,702 with 221 deaths.

Within an hour after the launch of a Saturday block party in Frayser, the Street Team for Overdose Prevention had signed up someone in need of rehab, leading one participant to call the event a success. 

The ranking in the clerkship category places Memphis Law ahead of law schools such as Washington and Lee, Ole Miss, Georgetown, Emory, Tennessee and Columbia.

Gov. Bill Lee continues to call the COVID-19 pandemic a crisis, but some Memphis lawmakers question his strategy as cases spike. They say he needs to be prepared for another round of spending to help families as the school year starts.

A black baseball player near the end of his career and a white kid not old enough to drive a car. What could they possibly mean to one another? More than they could have imagined. 

Memphis Tigers lose Power 5 game off football schedule as coronavirus concerns rise; life in the NBA bubble isn't perfect, but fine by Ja Morant; and a U.S. Senator on the receiving end of a "Woj bomb."

The annual fundraiser of the Memphis Branch NAACP was held online Saturday and featured appearances by the national president and CEO of the nation's oldest civil rights organization as well as recent Democratic presidential contender Julian Castro. 

The Tennessee Healthcare Resource Tracking System reports 93% of regional ICU beds are being used, with 112 patients identified as COVID-19 positive and 26 additional patients under investigation.

With hospitals 90% full in and right at the red range of capacity, leaders are working their plans for the COVID-19 surge.

Chick-fil-A's unusually short but expensive move seems to affirm the Wolfchase shopping district has still got 'it': The power to draw customers from far and wide.

The Shelby County Commission will reconsider a proposal they initially voted down: John Porter's Quinn Ridge Development in Collierville. Some commissioners believe the project would yield significant financial gain for the county, but others believe it would be more of a financial burden.

Kids who go to school risk exposing themselves and others to COVID-19. But many kids who stay home are more vulnerable to adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs.

While we see days with alarmingly high numbers of cases, we must focus on the overall trends – trends that demonstrate the acceleration of this disease is rapid, but it is not as precipitous as might be suggested by viewing a single data point.

On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, City Council member Worth Morgan talks about his possible move to take police out of the city's civil service system and calls a move to cancel the November referendum allowing the city to hire police from outside Shelby County "the ultimate hypocrisy."

Ja Morant said Friday he's a "Ramen Noodles guy." That's just the kind of attitude NBA players will need to succeed in the Orlando bubble. 

SCS Superintendent Joris Ray said Memphis students will start the school year online if coronavirus hospitalizations and cases continue to surge.