Mississippi State basketball will be making more than one trip to the Memphis area in the 2024-25 season.

”The subject presented a weapon towards the officers,” according to the MBI.

The Tigers play a nationally televised game against Middle Tennessee on Sept. 28. 

ESPN college football expert Paul Finebaum answers The Daily Memphian’s questions after Week 3 games.

Houston High remains second-ranked in Class 6A TSWA state football rankings.

Bartlett High’s Kaley Byrd and Arlington’s Clark Wade currently have the Memphis-area’s top girls and boys cross country times.

Standouts from Briarcrest, Central, East, Melrose, Munford and Tipton-Rosemark are up for consideration this week. 

This week’s jigsaw puzzle features an image from the Cooper-Young festival and was taken by freelance photographer Brad Vest for The Daily Memphian.

Are you ready for today’s puzzles? 

Finard Properties is renovating the former Spin Street site into six smaller spaces with an eye on attracting local businesses. That spot, which Finard executives refer to as “the angle,” has sat mostly empty since the music and memorabilia store closed in 2017.

“Ryan Silverfield called the win over Florida State ‘monumental.’ It was certainly that. Indeed, there is an argument that it was the most important win in program history.”

Remnants of Hurricane Francine continue to bring rain to the Memphis area.

Also happening this week: The Shelby County assessor’s office explains the upcoming reappraisal process. 

The Tigers remain the top Group of Five team in the Coaches Poll, but still are not ranked in the Associated Press Poll.

“We have the capacity to be good neighbors to one another again, even as we continue to work through our collective crime-related trauma and the unpredictable triggers it ushers it to the surface.”

“Let’s bring the conflict of the comments section into a community that learns how to wrestle together, not to be right but to be helped.”

The Commercial Real Estate of Women Network was founded in 1989 to create a networking organization dedicated to women in commercial real estate.

Children’s Museum of Memphis is hosting Hispanic Heritage Month events for the third year and going “a lot bigger.” The celebration runs each year from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.

The Semmes Murphey Clinic has diagnosed and treated patients with neurological disorders for more than a century, and once a month it hosts the region’s only multidisciplinary clinic for patients with ALS, aka Lou Gherig’s disease.

Tennessee’s abortion ban comes up in discussion of Memphis’ gun-control referendum; Sen. Blackburn uses old stats to talk crime, and remembering Jim Sasser, the former U.S. senator who was instrumental in bringing pandas to the zoo.

What started as an effort to combat food insecurity in Memphis has evolved into a community of people looking out for one another.

In an interview last week, Memphis Parks director Nick Walker said the city plans to start work on the new clubhouse in 2025.

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

A mother-daughter partnership leads to a temporary fashion boutique for a Lakeland family with hopes of a growing business.

It’s been a busy weekend for fans of the Southern Heritage Classic. Recent articles about the football game inspired this week’s crossword puzzle.