More people are in need this holiday season. While safety protocols have made it hard for Thanksgiving meal giveaways some of the large giveaways in Memphis will continue the tradition this year.
Starting Monday, a new health directive issued by the Shelby County Health Department will begin. The directive requires restaurants to hold limited capacity and close earlier.
With the weather getting colder, many customers are too concerned to eat indoors, and with a new, more restrictive health directive on the way, one restaurant manager says she’s extremely worried.
The Mississippi State Health Department confirmed 1,972 new cases of COVID-19 along with 15 new deaths. DeSoto County, which is among the hardest-hit counties, is inching closer to a grim milestone.
As the opening day of duck season quickly approaches, and thousands of hunters enter Arkansas, Arkansas Game & Fish Commission discusses coronavirus threats.
The health department’s been loosening restrictions since August. But with COVID-19 cases now surging and hospital beds filling up quickly— the rules are rolling back.
Thanksgiving Day is one week away, and there’s an urgent plea from federal and local officials to shrink the size of your celebrations as COVID-19 cases surge.
The Shelby County Health Department issued a new health directive late Friday, again limiting bars and restaurants to 50-percent occupancy and ordering them to close by 10 p.m.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has refused to issue a statewide mask mandate, even after mounting pressure from several state politicians and public health organizations.
Health officials said they are keeping an eye on the availability of testing as cases of COVID-19 surge in the Mid-South, but the way the community has expanded some testing has become an example for the rest of the country.
The state reported 3,444 new cases Friday and 74 additional deaths with 4,123 more cases now considered inactive. There are currently 39,422 active cases statewide.
Most of us know someone who has had a cut wide or deep enough to need stitches or someone who has had surgery, requiring doctors to close cavities inside the body.
During the pandemic, people have been spending more time in the kitchen. One Memphis family turned their time in the kitchen into a unique concept. It’s food you’d expect to see at a fine restaurant, but plated on a highchair.
The holidays can be bittersweet for families who lost a loved one, but this year could be even more stressful for more families with the pandemic keeping them apart.
In a move designed to reduce the spread of COVID-19, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced Thursday that businesses that sell or serve alcoholic beverages will need to close at 11 p.m.
You may have talked with your teen about alcohol, but here are some sobering statistics: by age 15, about 30 percent of teens have had at least one drink.
On the heels of Tennessee’s largest teachers union asking Governor Bill Lee for a statewide mask mandate, a group of the state’s doctors is following suit.
A team of neurosurgeons at Yale University are the first in the country to implant a newly approved deep brain stimulation, or DBS, device into a patient with epilepsy.
“Pfizer selected our state because of our (vaccine distribution) plan, because of our ability to build out a strong infrastructure, and we’re thankful for that partnership and what it means to Tennessee," said Lee.
One of the most popular podcasts in the United States in the Arts category is not hosted by a singer or an actor, but by a ten-year-old girl and her seven-year-old brother.
Alex Trebek died of pancreatic cancer last Sunday. This year, the disease also claimed the lives of Civil Rights icon John Lewis and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Monday Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves added 7 counties to his executive order mandating mask wearing and social distancing, given increases in COVID-19 cases.
The morgue in El Paso is so overwhelmed by the number of people dying from COVID-19, that inmates from the county’s detention facility are being brought in to assist with the overflow of bodies awaiting autopsy.
Shelby County health officials say a major reason they’re seeing more COVID-19 cases stems from infected people going to work and continuing to socialize with family and friends.
The Mayor of Southaven is objecting to the statements made this week by Mississippi’s Governor Tate Reeves and Mississippi Health Officer Thomas Dobbs about an ongoing outbreak in DeSoto County.
The Shelby County Health Department recently identified personnel who tested positive for coronavirus. They’re currently in isolation, and their contacts have been placed in quarantine.
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare wants to buy Saint Francis Hospitals in Memphis and Bartlett. But the Federal Trade Commission is trying to stop the sale.
