The University of Memphis will hold its winter Commencement on Sunday, Dec. 16, awarding a total of 1,669 degrees in two ceremonies at FedExForum. That number is part of a record-setting total of 4,322 U of M graduates in 2012.

The featured speaker will be Dr. Scott Morris, founder and executive director of the

Four low performing golf courses are closed, for the winter, for now.

But the issue is not dead.

Whitehaven, Davy Crockett, Pine Hill, and Riverside golf courses are now all closed for the next few months.

The move will save the city about $42,000.

But in two weeks, the Memphis city council will take up the issue again.

Investigators are on the hunt for a bank robber that knocked off a Bank of America on Austin Peay Highway Tuesday afternoon.

Police say the suspect posed as a customer, walked up to a teller, told him he had a weapon, and demanded cash.

They say after grabbing the money, he took off and ran around to the back of a