Sears Holdings will shutter the doors of its Southland Mall store, the company announced Thursday, Nov. 8.

Loosely holding a rolled-up program in his hand, Dustin Lehmann tapped it on his knee as if playing along with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s Veteran’s Day performance Saturday night.

Construction plans indicate a new Uptown brewery project would involve at least some renovation and partial demolition at an old industrial or mill facility. 

Phil Bredesen spent his last four minutes and 12 seconds in the spotlight Tuesday night coming to grips with the sobering reality that his time in politics is over.

So much to talk about after the Mid-South midterm elections. Let me focus on some non-obvious things that happened in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Memphis last night – in that order.

“Our country has changed,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in Shelby County v. Holder, a landmark decision that overturned a key provision of the 1965 Civil Rights Act and ended the enforcement of federal oversight of voting practices in states that have historically disenfranchised minority voters.

Memphis’ civic pride was wounded by the homegrown Church of God in Christ’s 2009 decision to move its biggest annual gathering up the Mississippi River to St. Louis. In a changing landscape of church leadership and amid complaints about Memphis’ lack of capacity to host such a large (30,000-plus) gathering, the Memphis-based Pentecostal denomination inked its first three-year deal with St. Louis.

My first reaction when I saw Elvis Presley was getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom was puzzlement: This hasn’t already happened? And, why now?

Several major Downtown Memphis apartment projects received tax breaks Tuesday morning, causing some board members to question just how many apartments are too many?

With an eye toward prepping the Memphis Regional Megasite for its next potential suitor, the State Building Commission has approved a $500,000 site consulting contract to ensure it doesn’t miss out on another jobs deal.

Based on the Shelby County Election Commission's number of provisional ballots from Germantown precincts, it appears unlikely challenger John Barzizza can overcome the 127-vote lead of incumbent mayor Mike Palazzolo.

The winner of this year's Tennessee Titans Mr. Football award in Division 2-AAA will come from Memphis. The only question remaining is which of three local standouts will take home the state's top prize.

The Memphis-based Church of God in Christ's annual holy convocation is coming home to Memphis from St. Louis in 2021-2023. Church leaders voted Monday to bring the annual convention back to Memphis for three years starting in 2021. It will continue to be hosted in St. Louis until then.

Joe Ingles scored 19 points, Rudy Gobert added 15 points and 16 rebounds and the Utah Jazz won their third straight, 96-88 over the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night.

When Tonya Dyson was little, she recalls, grandmothers were the protectors of the neighborhood. They would be there when the school bus pulled up at the end of the day and would keep a watchful eye until suppertime, making sure all the little ones were safe and cared for.

More than 100 people stood in the cold in downtown Memphis on Saturday, Nov. 10, to protest President Donald Trump’s appointment of Matthew G. Whitaker as acting U.S. Attorney General, a move that many across the country believe will threaten the investigation of special counsel Robert S. Mueller.

With a hand up from FedEx’s pioneering black aviators, Albert Glenn reached his profession’s pinnacle flying wide-body air freighters around the world.

From digital payment transactions to streaming television shows, advances in technology over the past several decades have changed the way the world does business, consumes media and even gives to charity. ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, realizes that to keep up, it too must evolve.

Rosalind Harrison has made history twice in the last year with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.

Crowded parking decks and longer security lines await Thanksgiving week travelers at Memphis International Airport.

Penny Hardaway’s final assignment at the University of Memphis – the final assignment before he could get his degree – was a paper on Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

Memphis’ (6-4, 3-3 American Athletic Conference) blowout of Tulsa (2-8, 1-5 AAC) was a season-best performance for the Tigers defense.

Memphis (6-4, 3-3 American Athletic Conference) rolled over Tulsa (2-8, 1-5 AAC) 47-21 Saturday afternoon. 

The largest mixed-use development in Memphis history goes public this week, promising to transform a haggard Downtown gateway with apartments, stores, restaurants, a hotel, office towers, parking structures, green spaces, even a half-acre park perched over a roadway like a rooftop.

Strange as it seems for a program that's won two state championships since 2012, but Whitehaven has been flying under the radar. Fairly or unfairly though, the Tigers showed they're back where they belong on Friday.