“My dad was the original Charlie,” Charlie’s Meat Market owner Chuck Hogan said. “He opened Triangle Meat Company on Lamar (Avenue) in 1967.”

Bartlett City Schools is considering its annual fiscal year budget with a bump in salaries while trying to work on expensive special education programs.

Emails from The Associated Press to the U.S. Department of Justice and a spokesperson for the task force were not returned on Wednesday morning.

An anonymous local company bought a highly visible retail property in Cooper-Young with plans for an Asian restaurant in the former Alchemy space.

Germantown Municipal School District believes it is being shortchanged in the amount of money it has been given by the suburb. It holds that residents voted for the school district to receive more funds annually, as property values increase.

Former Briarcrest point guard looking to utilize his playmaking and defensive skills next season at one of the nation’s very best programs.

The federal trial for a former DeSoto County youth pastor and basketball coach has been pushed back.

On a sad day for the NBA, the annual NBA Draft Combine continued. Even as news began to spread around the combine of the death of Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke, draft prospects continued to conduct measurements and drills at Chicago’s Wintrust Arena.

South Memphis charter schools Believe Memphis Academy and Memphis Delta Preparatory Charter School each received a Tennessee “priority” designation for low performance earlier this school year. 

Also, a beauty-supply store is coming to Bartlett, and an electrical-supply company signed a lease in East Memphis.

Today’s puzzle is from the Victorian tearoom at HighTee and was taken by Sophia Surrett. 

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The Redbirds allowed a season-high five home runs in the game, the most allowed since July 30, 2024, at Durham.

Coach Penny Hardaway’s Memphis Tigers roster appears to have all the right ingredients to compete at a high level.

Brandon Clarke’s mentor, Tony Darden, reflects on the best memories with his former player. 

The contract extension for attorney Justin Bailey would keep him employed with the district for at least three more years. 

The move came as a result of Democrats’ actions on the House floor May 7 during a vote on new a congressional map that splits majority-Democratic Shelby County into three different districts.

In a three-page letter, Young writes that the ordinance “seeks to enlarge the Council’s authority in direct contravention of the charter.”

The plaintiffs in one of the federal cases against Tennessee’s new congressional maps have filed an emergency motion for an expedited ruling.

Maxim Logue, a 6-foot-9 FAU big man transfer who initially committed to North Carolina several weeks ago, has picked the Memphis Tigers.

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The day before his 29th birthday, a Memphis Grizzlies forward delivered a check to a class full of second graders. “I tried to make sure everyone got a high-five or a hug.” That was Brandon Clarke. 

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The former longtime home of Downtown’s Bluff City Coffee will soon be home to coffee again, but this time, with cocktails, too.