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Ross CH Acquisition II is bringing $115 million to Reservoir’s public offering as part of the deal. Some institutional investors including Caledonia have been lined up as anchor shareholders, which will bring in $150 million in gross proceeds. In the end, after investment banking, legal fees and other expenses, Reservoir will be left with $246 million in gross proceeds from the transaction. The company’s current shareholders, including the Khosrowshahi family, will roll over all their Reservoir equity into the new company, giving it an enterprise value of $788 million. That means that the...

By Rick Cleveland Apr 15, 2021 1:10 PM Jake Mangum kisses the Governor’s Cup after Mississippi State defeated Ole Miss in 2019. Mangum helped State dominate Ole Miss in recent seasons with the Bulldogs winning 14 of the last 16. But Mangum has moved on and perhaps the most anticipated Rebel-Bulldog games in the series’ 128-year history are this weekend in Starkville.. Ole Miss and Mississippi State have played baseball for 128 years. That’s a lot of history. And yet, there probably has never been a more anticipated Rebel-Bulldog baseball series than the one scheduled for thi...

Al Green, who turns 75 years old today. Green was born in Forrest City, Arkansas, and began singing in a gospel quartet while still a child. After moving with his family to Michigan in the late 1950s, he began singing in local soul groups. He scored an R&B hit in 1968 with his band The Soul Mates, and then was signed as a solo artist in 1969 to Memphis’ famous Hi Records. Hi Records vice president Willie Mitchell produced all of Green’s albums from 1969 to 1976, and also co-wrote many of Al’s biggest hits. Other classic tunes Green recorded during this period include “Here I Am (Com...

Jennifer Lucy Allan , April 13th, 2021 10:51 tQ is in partnership with Oda, a new speaker system that allows artists including Ann Peebles and Don Bryant to broadcast directly into your home. Jennifer Lucy Allan speaks to the legendary Memphis soul couple about telling stories, singing gospel, staying together, and their biggest hit, I Can’t Stand The Rain Ann Peebles and Don Bryant’s biggest hit ‘I Can’t Stand The Rain’ was a creative bolt of lightning in a literal downpour. It is a story that has been told and retold so many times it’s a piece of southern soul folklore.

5 Star Stories: Pancho’s Cheese Dip attracts national following 5 Star Stories: Pancho's Cheese Dip attracts national following By Kym Clark | April 6, 2021 at 9:57 PM CDT - Updated April 6 at 11:00 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Did you know cheese dip is considered an important part of Arkansas food culture? Some even claim it first showed up at an Arkansas restaurant in the 1930′s, but historians cannot agree whether that eatery was in Little Rock or Hot Springs, Arkansas. There’s even a World Cheese Dip Championship that’s been held almost every year in Little Rock sin...