University of Memphis News

Two theatrical troupes whose members are senior citizens perform together later this month in a play whose theme is based on their lives.

Middle of May finally gave way to a warming trend after 40s seemed to have threatened some tender plants about our hometown, but cool nights encouraged the blackberries to thrive into a brigade of white blossoms alongside locust trees.

Latino Memphis is hosting an immigration reform round-table discussion Monday. It is a topic that has fired up a national debate.

After nine straight wins, including a Conference USA title and the program's first trip to the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16, the University of Memphis men's tennis team met its match Thursday.

With a full-ride scholarship for soccer, his goal became to play in the big leagues.

Southaven 5, Northwest Rankin 2: The Chargers scored twice in the first inning and added three more runs in the fourth to eliminate the visiting Cougars in Game 3 on Monday.

Terry Brimhall , founder and president of Brimhall Foods Co. Inc ., has been named entrepreneur of the year by the Bartlett Area Chamber of Commerce.

The new owner of the 13,658-square-foot retail center at 9915 U.S. 64 in Arlington has filed a $1.7 million loan on the property.

Zero to 510, the medical device accelerator, developed by the state of Tennessee through Governor Haslam's INCITE initiative, has announced the six companies for the 2013 cohort.

Elizabeth Fyke, 26, from Jackson, Tenn., has her cap pinned by her friend Julie Bigsby, 24, from Salisbury, N.C. before the graduation of the 2013 University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the Cannon Center on Sunday.

Memphis Madness, the mid-October event that has annually marked the official start of practice for the University of Memphis men's basketball team, could be moving up the calendar.

The Youngstown State University Board of Trustees offered the job of president to Dr.

June 22, 2012 - White Station point guard Chris Chiozza drives to the basket after grabbing a steal against Millington during the Memphis Summer Classic at MUS Friday afternoon.

Zellner Construction Services LLC is a third-generation commercial construction company that has built a solid reputation for quality over quantity.

Tigers forward D.J. Stephens will graduate from the University of Memphis on Sunday, but his education doesn't stop there.

Beginning with a degree in paralegal studies from Hinds Community College in Raymond, Miss., and then a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Memphis, the final rung was earning a law degree from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 2001.

The guy who will oversee an internal investigation of Pilot Flying J was once Gov.

Onetime NBA and University of Memphis basketball star Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway will speak at the University Center theater on the U of M campus at 6 p.m. Wednesday, along with Wayne B. Drash, who has written a book about Hardaway.

Schools in Memphis and the surrounding area will receive more than $1.5 million of $4 million in Race to the Top funds from the Tennessee Department of Education.

The Tennessee Department of Education has pledged nearly $4 million in Race to the Top funds to pay for eight leadership development programs, which will impact future school leaders in more than 20 districts across the state.