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Who’s responsible for the ‘Hush Y’all’ paddles that Memphis is known for? Truth be told, it was borrowed

The FedEx St. Jude Championship has put its own signature spin on the tradition.

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Michigan State star chooses Memphis as transfer destination

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FedEx St. Jude Championship feels like Scottie Scheffler vs. Xander Schauffele. Here’s how they matchup

Pro golf's modern-day version of "Clash of the Titans" takes stage in Memphis this week.

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"A rewarding retrospective, not dissimilar to the kind revered artists get at major museums": Elvis Presley's Memphis recordings are immortal gold

Memphis is a mammoth, probably definitive set of Elvis Presley's Bluff City belters

Louder

Notable Golfers on the FedEx Cup Playoff Bubble (Plus One Who Is Skipping It) at the Wyndham Championship

Only the top 70 players advance to next week’s playoff opener in Memphis, where even regular-season wins don't guarantee a spot.

Sports Illustrated

WK Kellogg to close Omaha plant, downsize in Memphis as it shifts production to newer facilities

WK Kellogg Co. is closing one U.S. cereal plant and downsizing another as part of a plan to consolidate its operations in newer facilities

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Memphis, Tennessee, officer, motorist killed in car crash; 2nd officer critical

Authorities say a Memphis police officer and a motorist who was driving with a gunshot wound have been killed in a car crash

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I studied ShotSpotter in Chicago and Kansas City – here’s what people in Detroit and the more than 167 other cities and towns using this technology should know

Like many large cities in the U.S., Detroit’s gun violence rate has fluctuated since the COVID-19 pandemic and the unrest after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The city’s murder rate increased nearly 20% that year, meaning the city had the second-highest violent crime rate after Memphis, Tennessee, among…

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Brickbat: Caught a Big One

The city of Memphis, Tennessee, lost $773,000 in a phishing scam in 2022, but officials did not disclose the loss until a local media outlet asked about it recently. The city was making regular payments to a local construction company. "Following a request from who they believed to be Zellner…

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Elon Musk fires up ‘the most powerful AI cluster in the world’ to create the 'world's most powerful AI' by December — system uses 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs on a single fabric

Tech baron Elon Musk has taken to Twitter/X to boast of starting up “the most powerful AI training cluster in the world.” Today, xAI’s Memphis Supercluster began AI training using 100,000 liquid-cooled Nvidia H100 GPUs connected with a single RDMA fabric.

Tom’s Hardware

US Transportation Department to invest nearly $400 million for new Interstate 55 bridge in Memphis

Officials say the U.S. Department of Transportation is providing nearly $400 million to build a new Interstate 55 bridge connecting Tennessee and Arkansas across the Mississippi River

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Tegna Names Christopher Franklin President & GM at WATN and WLMT

Franklin has been serving as interim GM since earlier this year

TV Tech

Tegna Names Christopher Franklin as President and GM of WATN-WLMT Memphis

Promoted from interim GM, he arrived at ABC-The CW duopoly in 2020

Broadcasting & Cable

Graceland steward Jack Soden and soul man Wilson Pickett among 9 named to Memphis Music Hall of Fame

Twelve years ago, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame inducted its inaugural class of 25 luminaries at a rousing ceremony, honoring legends spanning generations and genres, from Elvis Presley to Three 6 Mafia

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This Tennessee city honored one of its golf legends by naming new clubhouse for him

Former PGA Tour pro Loren Roberts was among those on hand to honor Hudson.

Fortune

Elon Musk selects Memphis for xAI's supercomputer site

It’s the largest single private-sector investment in the city’s history.

The Independent UK

A trial date has been set for a man charged in the kidnapping, killing of a Memphis school teacher

A judge has set a trial date for a man charged in the kidnapping and killing of a school teacher while she was on an early morning run in Tennessee

The Conversation

Supreme Court sides with Starbucks in labor case that could hinder government’s ability to intervene in some unionization disputes

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Starbucks in a case that could make it harder for a federal agency to enforce labor laws in disputes that can arise during organizing campaigns. On June 13, 2024, the court announced that eight of the nine justices had signed onto a…

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Moneybagg Yo's 'A Gangsta's Pain' went No. 1. He's back to soundtrack your summer with 'Speak Now.'

In 2021, you heard it: Moneybagg Yo’s “Wokesha” blaring from cars and corner stores

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Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice

Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., who died on June 9, 2024, at the age of 95, was a Methodist minister and a powerful advocate of nonviolence during the Civil Rights Movement.

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'Strategist of nonviolence': US civil rights leader Rev. James Lawson dies at 95

The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has died, his family said Monday. He was 95.

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Report: Rockets talking to Nets, Grizzlies about trades involving No. 3 draft pick

Brooklyn (Mikal Bridges) and Memphis (No. 9 pick and more) are potential trade partners for the Rockets with their No. 3 overall draft pick, Kevin O’Connor reports.

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Trial in the fatal daytime ambush of rapper Young Dolph reset to September

A judge has reset the trial date for a man charged with killing rapper Young Dolph in a daytime shooting ambush at a cookie shop in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee

LiveScience

Why are so many ancient Egyptians buried at the Saqqara necropolis?

The ancient Egyptians buried their dead at Saqqara for thousands of years. Why was the necropolis so important to them?

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Federal Judge Considers Evidence In Memphis Police Beating Case

Federal judge in Memphis considers allowing evidence from deceased victim's car in trial of former police officers.

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