WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. banks ended 2012 with their best profits since 2006 and fewer failures than at any time since the financial crisis struck in 2008. They're helping support an economy slowed by high unemployment, flat pay, sluggish manufacturing and anxious consumers.

2. Churchill Mortgage Growth Highlights Industry News - Monday, May 21, 2012

Here’s a roundup of what some of the city’s banks and bankers, investment professionals, accountants and other financial services shops have been up to in recent weeks.

* Brentwood, Tenn.-based Churchill Mortgage, which has a retail office at 5384 Poplar Ave. that opened a little more than two years ago, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

3. Fuente Looks to Build Program the ‘Right Way’ - Friday, January 20, 2012

The coaching clock ticks ever faster, often with little or no regard for extenuating circumstances. Used to be, college football coaches could just about count on five years to build a program up, to prove what they could do with a team full of players that they had recruited and taught.

4. JPMorgan's Income Drop Casts a Pall Over Banks - Friday, October 14, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) – If JPMorgan Chase can't do well, investors worry that other banks may do even worse.

The New York bank, widely considered the strongest in the industry, reported a 4 percent drop in income last quarter Thursday on weakness in investment banking and more costs related to litigation over mortgage investments.

5. Red Door Hits First Year by Exceeding Goals - Friday, March 04, 2011

Red Door Wealth Management, a financial advisory business that has an alliance with local accounting firm Cannon Wright Blount PLLC, just wrapped up its first year in existence this month.

6. Houston Gordon Kicks Off MBA’s Lawyers Conversations Series - Wednesday, January 26, 2011

At a lunchtime gathering the Memphis Bar Association is planning to host, trial attorney Houston Gordon will be the center of attention for the first in a series of informal seminars titled “Conversations with Local Lawyers of Distinction.”

7. Paul Bourassa Joins Unity Home Medical as Director - Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Paul N. Bourassa has joined Unity Home Medical LLC as director. Unity Home Medical is a medical supply company and sister company of Unity Hospice Care based in Germantown.

8. Fred Smith Makes Clean Tech List - Monday, November 08, 2010

Fred Smith, the founder and chief executive officer of FedEx, has made a Forbes.com short list of “The Most Powerful People on Earth” for clean technology.

9. Beale Street Honors - Monday, September 13, 2010

Memphis has a music heritage going back a hundred years.

And some of those earlier and more obscure artists could be forgotten if it wasn’t for the Beale Street Brass Note Walk of Fame.

The small brass music notes lining the sidewalks of Beale Street are engraved with names as well known as Elvis Presley and as obscure, at least to some, as Dr. Herman Green, who played with many jazz greats.

10. Youth Isn’t a Hurdle for Red Door Founder Phillips - Friday, August 27, 2010

The scant number of years John Phillips V has under his belt relative to others in his chosen industry is not lost on him.

11. Higgins Named President, CEO At Barge Waggoner - Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Robert B. Higgins Jr. has been named president and chief executive officer of engineering, architecture and planning for Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon Inc.

12. Life After City Hall: The story behind Herenton’s Washington surprise - Thursday, May 07, 2009

You would think that Mayor Willie Herenton’s “resignation” last spring as he thought about trying out for Memphis City Schools superintendent would be difficult to top.

13. Events - Friday, October 10, 2008

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC will host a program titled “Impact of International Information Sharing” today from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the First Tennessee building, 165 Madison Ave. on the M level. The program will feature William F. Baity, deputy director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The program and lunch are free. For more information, contact Esther Stone at 577-8125 or estone@bakerdonelson.com.

14. Le Bonheur Fundraiser To Feature Dancing Docs - Friday, September 12, 2008

Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center and Dancesmith’s Fred Astaire Dance Studio will host its second Dancing with the Docs fundraiser Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at The Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 255 N. Main St.

15. To Lead is to Serve and to Do Either Is to Be Simple - Friday, March 09, 2007

When poet, memoirist and cultural icon Maya Angelou visited Memphis last spring, she brought her regal bearing with her.

Before a room full of admirers at The Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, the 78-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner recounted some of the many obstacles she's faced in life. Abandonment. Sexual assault. Poverty. Exclusion. Discrimination.

16. Royalty Money Better Late Than Never, Music Heritage Group Insists - Thursday, September 21, 2006

The Stax record label could be headed for a potential rebirth, thanks to Justin Timberlake's announcement Sept. 15 that he wants to build a contemporary version of the iconic label, which started in 1959 as a small record store in South Memphis and later helped launch the careers of music legends like Isaac Hayes and Otis Redding.

17. Archived Article: Events - Thursday, April 29, 2004
Kiesewetter Wise hosts the 2004 Labor & Employment Law Conference at 9 a

Kiesewetter Wise Kaplan Schwimmer & Prather hosts the 2004 Labor & Employment Law Conference at 9 a.m. today in the Cotillion Ballroom at the Memphis Marriott Ea...