MCLEAN, Va. (AP) – Gannett Co. (GCI) on Monday reported a loss of $377,000 in its first quarter.

2. Heir on the Side of Caution - Saturday, March 3, 2018

The closest and best parcel of land for a second convention center hotel in Downtown Memphis is the Mud Island parking garage. It’s a block away from the Memphis Cook Convention Center and is the first site that came up when a Denver developer approached the city last year about possibly building such a hotel.

3. Gannett Beats Q3 Profit Expectations, Misses on Revenue - Friday, November 3, 2017

MCLEAN, Va. (AP) – Gannett Co., Inc. (GCI) on Thursday reported third-quarter net income of $23 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.

4. Big River Crossing Wins International Design Honor - Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Big River Crossing has won the top honor among projects receiving 2017 Excellence in Design Awards from the Waterfront Center, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that helps communities worldwide make wise long-term uses of waterfront resources.

5. Kemmons Wilson Cos. Continues in the Spirit of its Founder - Saturday, May 6, 2017

McLean T. Wilson has a statistic he likes to keep top of mind: 94 percent of third-generations businesses fail. Kemmons Wilson Cos. (KWC), the enterprise founded by McLean’s grandfather, Kemmons Wilson, is in the other 6 percent.

6. Freddie Mac to Pay Treasury $4.5B After Profit Doubles - Friday, February 17, 2017

NEW YORK (AP) – Freddie Mac said Thursday that it will pay the U.S. Treasury a dividend of $4.5 billion next month after its profit more than doubled in the last quarter.

The government-controlled mortgage company has paid the Treasury more than $101 billion in dividends since receiving $71.3 billion in bailouts from the government between 2008 and 2012.

7. Newspaper Deal Falls Apart as Gannett Gives Up on Tronc - Wednesday, November 2, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) – USA Today publisher Gannett walked away Tuesday from its attempted takeover of Tronc, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other major dailies.

Gannett's target was elusive from the beginning, with a publicly contentious back-and-forth between the two companies. Tronc, formerly known as Tribune Publishing, rejected at least two bids from Gannett since April because it said it preferred to go it alone and focus on tech-driven initiatives involving artificial intelligence and global expansion in entertainment news and video.

8. Outlook Weighs on Hilton - Thursday, October 27, 2016

MCLEAN, Va. (AP) – Hilton cut its expectations for a key revenue figure, overshadowing an otherwise solid third-quarter performance.

Hilton had previously expected its revenue per-available room to rise between 3 percent and 4 percent for 2016. On Wednesday, it trimmed those expectations to just a 1.5 percent to 2 percent increase compared with last year, and flat to 1 percent for the current and final quarter of 2016.

9. Tribune Rejects Second Gannett Bid; Sets the Stage for Talks - Tuesday, May 24, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) – Tribune Publishing rejected a second takeover bid from USA Today owner Gannett, but did say Monday that it was open to further talks.

Gannett last week raised its per-share bid for the owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other newspapers to $15, from $12.25. Gannett, based in McLean, Virginia, put the total value of the revised offer at about $864 million, which includes some $385 million in debt.

10. Gannett Raises Offer for Tribune Publishing by 22 Percent - Tuesday, May 17, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) – USA Today owner Gannett has boosted its takeover bid for Tribune Publishing Co. by about 22 percent one week after the owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other newspapers adopted a "poison pill" plan to thwart the unsolicited offer.

11. USA Today Owner Gannett Bids for LA Times Publisher Tribune - Tuesday, April 26, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) — Newspaper publisher Gannett said Monday that it wants to buy Tribune Publishing for more than $388 million, in a deal that would give the owner of USA Today control of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers.

12. Feds Approve Gannett $280M Purchase of Journal Media Group - Saturday, April 9, 2016

MILWAUKEE (AP) – Federal regulators have approved media company Gannett's purchase of newspaper company Journal Media Group for $280 million.

The two companies said Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice has approved the purchase. The deal is expected to close Friday.

13. Capital One to Let Users Pay Bills Via Amazon's Echo - Monday, March 14, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) – Capital One has teamed with Amazon to let owners of Amazon's Echo smart speaker system pay their bills and get other account information through voice commands.

Amazon's Echo speakers use a voice-command service called Alexa to help users perform various tasks, such as turning on smart lights, playing music or setting a kitchen timer. The number of so-called "skills" Alexa can perform has been growing since the Echo became widely available last year and now numbers more than 100.

14. Memorable Events of 2015 will Spill Into 2016 - Saturday, January 2, 2016

When you really get down to it, history is a collection of moments, moments that, when they fall one after the other over the long arc of time, eventually form the tapestry representing who we are.

15. Groups Want More Memphians to Discover River’s Front Yard - Friday, October 9, 2015

Once upon a time it was called the “promenade.” In 1828, two years after the city of Memphis was incorporated, the city’s founders and their successors put it in writing.

The statement – signed by the men who owned 5,000 acres where the Wolf and Mississippi rivers meet – read: “In relation to the piece of ground laid off and called the Promenade, said proprietors say that it was their original intention, is now and forever will be that the same should be public ground for use only as the word imports.”

16. Former US Sen. Fred Thompson Buys $1.5 Million Home in Nashville - Monday, August 10, 2015

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson is moving back to Tennessee.

17. Gannett Completes Split of Print, Broadcasting Divisions - Tuesday, June 30, 2015

McLEAN, Va. (AP) – Gannett has completed the split of its print and broadcasting divisions into separate companies.

The broadcasting and digital arm, which will be called Tegna Inc., will run the company's television stations and websites such as CareerBuilder. It will also include Cars.com. Tegna will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday under the "TGNA" ticker symbol.

18. Stones’ Nashville Connections Go Way Back - Saturday, June 13, 2015

While Brad Paisley lives what he calls “a bucket list item” by singing while playing his guitar in typically showy fashion as the opening act for The Rolling Stones, the most important guitarist in rock ‘n’ roll history and a man idolized by Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood will be sitting in his house on Blueberry Hill in the hills of northern Davidson County.

19. Fannie, Freddie Post Profits in Third Quarter; Pay Dividends - Friday, November 7, 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) – Government-controlled mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac posted profits for the July-September period as the U.S. housing market continued to recover. Gains in recent years have enabled them to fully repay their government aid after being rescued during the financial crisis in 2008.

20. Fannie, Freddie Post Profits in Second Quarter - Friday, August 8, 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) – Government-controlled mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac posted profits for the April-June period as the U.S. housing market continued to recover. Gains in recent years have enabled them to fully repay their government aid after being rescued during the financial crisis in 2008.

21. Gannett Splits Publishing, Broadcasting in Two - Wednesday, August 6, 2014

NEW YORK (AP) – The game of survival is on for newspapers, as USA Today owner Gannett on Tuesday became the most recent major media entity to say it will divide its print and broadcast divisions into separate companies.

22. Fannie, Freddie Post Solid Earnings for First Quarter - Friday, May 9, 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) – Government-controlled mortgage financers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac posted solid earnings for the January-March period as the U.S. housing market continued to recover. Gains over recent quarters have enabled the companies to fully repay their taxpayer aid after being rescued by the government in 2008.

23. Exterior Plans for Bass Pro Approved - Friday, March 8, 2013

Bass Pro Shops’ exterior building and site improvements for repurposing the city-owned Pyramid as a destination retailer were approved by the Design Review Board Wednesday, March 6, but the board asked for more time to digest the company’s controversial signage requests.

24. Exterior Plans for Bass Pro Approved - Thursday, March 7, 2013

Bass Pro Shops’ exterior building and site improvements for repurposing the city-owned Pyramid as a destination retailer were approved by the Design Review Board Wednesday, March 6, but the board asked for more time to digest the company’s controversial signage requests.

25. Longtime TDN Subscriber Wilson Lumber Endures - Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Despite an overall decline in the region’s lumber industry, reliability, personalized customer care and carving out a market has kept family-owned Wilson Lumber Co. Inc. in business for nearly half a century.

26. Capital One to Buy HSBC US Credit Card Arm - Thursday, August 11, 2011

McLEAN, Va. (AP) – Capital One Financial Corp. said Wednesday that it will buy the U.S. credit card arm of Britain's HSBC for a premium of about $2.6 billion as a way to expand its domestic credit card business.

27. Fannie Mae Loss Widens; Asking Taxpayers for $2.8B - Monday, August 8, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) – Government-controlled mortgage company Fannie Mae said Friday that its second-quarter loss widened as it continues to seek loan modifications to help reduce defaults amid the ongoing difficulties in the housing and mortgage markets.

28. Planners Discuss Future of Uptown West - Monday, July 4, 2011

Butterflies to jobs to fountains. Those were among the one-word suggestions for the Uptown West area Thursday, June 30, at the first of three public hearings held by a steering committee to guide future development of the area.

29. Freddie Mac Executive VP Dismissed - Tuesday, June 29, 2010

MCLEAN, Va. (AP) — Freddie Mac has announced one of its executive vice presidents was fired last week.

In a regulatory filing Friday, the mortgage finance company gave no reason for Michael Perlman's "termination."

30. Beyond Halloween - Monday, October 26, 2009

The signs are already up in some stores around the city – especially those open 24 hours a day. They remind Halloween minded patrons not to wear any kind of masks or face coverings into the stores or risk being mistaken for robbers. What we fear is the basis for Halloween as we know it. What we believe others fear is part of the evolving tradition. Combine the two and you are past Halloween and into a civic discussion that has a season of its own.

31. Freddie Mac Seeks $6.1B in US Aid after Loss - Thursday, May 14, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - Mortgage giant Freddie Mac is looking for $6.1 billion in additional government aid as the cost to taxpayers from the housing market bust keeps growing.

The McLean, Virginia-based company, seized by federal regulators in September, on Tuesday posted a loss of $9.9 billion, or $3.14 per share, for the quarter ending March 31. That compared with a loss of $149 million, or 66 cents a share, in the year-ago period.

32. Police Investigating Death of Freddie Mac Official - Thursday, April 23, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - The chief financial officer of money-losing mortgage giant Freddie Mac was found dead in his basement early Wednesday morning in what police said was an apparent suicide.

A law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said it was an apparent hanging. He declined to be identified because the investigation was ongoing.

33. AP: Gannett Slashes CEO's Pay Package by 60 Pct - Friday, March 20, 2009

SAN FRANSCISCO (AP) - Gannett Co. slashed its chief executive's pay package by 60 percent last year, passing along the financial misery that has tormented the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as its stock price and profit shrank amid an industrywide drop in advertising revenue.

34. Hilton Hotels Signs HQ Lease in Tysons Corner - Thursday, March 12, 2009

McLEAN, Va. (AP) - Hilton Hotels Corp. has announced that its new headquarters will be in the Tysons Corner section of Fairfax County.

35. MLGW Decision to SellMemphis Networx Expected - Thursday, June 14, 2007
     Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division's (MLGW) board of commissioners are expected to pull the plug next week on the utility's involvement in the public-private venture Memphis Networx, a telecom firm started in 1999 with

36. Finding Safe Harbor - Monday, June 26, 2006

The Riverfront Development Corp. (RDC) has absorbed $500,000 of city budget cuts and appears ready to move ahead on its largest project to date, the $29.3 million Beale Street Landing.

When the Memphis City Council approved the city budget June 6, the RDC received $2.1 million for its operating budget for fiscal year 2007, down 18 percent from $2.6 million last year. The RDC's total operating budget is projected to be $4.2 million, down slightly from last year's $4.3 million.

37. Patagonia Gives Grant To Riverfront Org - Friday, April 14, 2006
Reno, Nev.-based outdoor clothing manufacturer Patagonia has awarded a $1,148 conservation grant to Friends of Our Riverfront, a nonprofit group whose stated goal is to keep the Memphis riverfront public. Virginia McLean, president of Friends of Our

38. Nonprofit Riverfront Group Gleans Ideas from Chattanooga - Monday, February 20, 2006

About 20 years ago, Chattanooga had a rusting industrial Downtown area with air pollution that rivaled Los Angeles' smog. Now, many publications list it as one of the best places to live in America.

39. Future of Riverfront Still Up for Discussion - Tuesday, August 9, 2005

Virginia McLean spent a recent afternoon walking through Boston Common, taking in the sights and sounds of the bustling, 50-acre public park that is recognized as the oldest in the country.

While there, she couldn't help but see the future of the Memphis riverfront in an area of Boston once used for cattle grazing, but now filled with concerts, ballgames and other recreation. Those kinds of uses are what McLean, president of Friends for Our Riverfront, hopes to see more of along the edge of the Mississippi River.

40. Archived Article: Lead - Tuesday, June 14, 2005
By Andy Meek

Riverfront Plans Promise Debate, Change

RDC prepares for summer start on Beale Street Landing

ANDY MEEK

The Daily News

Looking out a conference room window on the ninth floor of the Falls Building, Benny Lendermon enjoys ...

41. Archived Article: This Week - Monday, October 4, 2004
MBA Presents the Irving Younger Video Series

Shelby County Mayor Hosts Town Hall Meeting

Oct. 4

The Memphis Area Association of Realtors Multi-Million Dollar Club sponsors Professional Standards in the 21st Century from 9 a.m. to noon at Ge...

42. Archived Article: Events - Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Memphis Regional Chamber hosts a chamber orientation at 8 a

The Memphis Regional Chamber hosts an orientation session at 8 a.m. today at the chamber office, 22 N. Front St., Suite 200. The meeting is open to new and existing chamber members. Call...

43. Archived Article: Prom 2 (lead) - Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Promenade

City Aims to Bring Memphians to River

Promenade to serve as transition from water to Downtown

LANCE ALLAN

The Daily News

Its a walk that could take hours or just a few minutes. Departing from the historic southern end of Dow...

44. Archived Article: Promenade (lead) - Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Terry Ramsey, Vice President of RidAll Pest Control

Promenade Plans Face First Challenge

Grassroots group has concerns about potential development

ANDREW BELL

The Daily News

A small group is organizing to attempt to block, or at least...

45. Archived Article: Focus (tour) - Tuesday, March 13, 2001
By JENNIFER MURLEY Home tour puts Evergreen District on display By JENNIFER MURLEY The Daily News A unique blend of five old and new homes with distinctly European characters will be featured on the 2001 Evergreen Historic District Home Tour. The to...