VOL. 128 | NO. 82 | Friday, April 26, 2013
In Game 1 in Los Angeles, the Grizzlies were missing in action. In Game 2, they were just good enough to lose by two points.
Former hotel’s renovation signals brighter future for South Main
“Memphis: The Musical” meets the real life setting Friday, April 26, for the fictional story of a Memphis radio announcer in the 1950s.
Memphis civil rights icon Maxine Smith died Thursday evening at her South Memphis home at the age of 83.
Countywide school board members twice voted down outsourcing custodial services in the merged school district to the company GCA Thursday, April 25, leaving undone the second step of the board’s February decision to outsource the services.
U.S. markets, including Memphis, may lose employees as global medical device makers look to faster-growing markets, such as India and China, for growth.
Brittany Fitzpatrick recently left her job as communications coordinator for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis because she wants to devote herself full time to the venture she’s founded and to the problem she wants to help solve.
MEMPHIS STANDOUT
Melissa Wolowicz is up with the chickens every morning, working to make Memphis a better place.
The Grizzlies returned from Los Angeles down 2-0 to the Clippers, the idea of “Believe Memphis” being put to the test.
The NBA’s new Defensive Player of the Year was remembering another ceremony, more than a decade ago at The Pyramid.
LOCAL COLUMNISTS
I’LL TAKE YOU THERE. “Oh, mmm, I know a place… When Mavis Staples sang those words, everybody in the audience was moved to move. The kind of primal itch you got to scratch, the kind of muscle over mind that makes toes tap, fingers snap, and hands clap.
A bombing and citywide lockdown in Boston, a chemical explosion in West, Texas; threats of flooding along the Mississippi River; tornadoes; earthquakes; and the all-too-frequent house fire.
REGIONAL
CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. (AP) – For the second time in less than a week, a Mississippi River bridge has been struck by a barge.
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Mississippi River crested at St. Louis on Thursday and was beginning a descent unlikely to be interrupted by another round of rain.
NATIONAL BUSINESS
NEW YORK (AP) – Trading on the biggest exchange for financial options resumed Thursday following an outage caused by software problems.
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON (AP) – A handful of senators from states without sales taxes are blocking a bill that would tax Internet purchases.