Canton News

Madison County legislators say money, or the lack of it, will be the focus of their 2010 session.

Amendments to a controversial Canton business moratorium that has caused widespread confusion are expected to come in December.

JACKSON, MS The battle of the bulge among African Americans in Mississippi was the subject of a BET network special Sunday.

The concept of tax increment financing -- a tool that allows the county to partner with a private developer to create a commercial park -- is like chocolate ice cream, Tax Assessor Gerald Barber says.

Going on the auction block in Madison County are manufactured housing units that have fallen behind on property taxes.

Canton officials have hired two engineering firms to replace ex-city engineer Rudy Warnock, who resigned last month amid an ongoing contract dispute with the city.

The debate over health care reform has local residents rallying for and against the bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday.

Madison County supervisors, over the concerns raised by one member, approved a financing plan for a Canton development that calls for the county to pay for public improvements with the higher tax revenue that is expected to be generated.

Good progress was made on the widening of Old Canton Road in Madison during the spring and summer months.

The adoption of a moratorium in Canton that regulates pawn shops, liquor stores and other establishments has caused widespread confusion among Cantonians.

The Canton Board of Aldermen targeted liquor stores, pawn shops, nail salons and check cashing stores as undesirable Monday.

Rudy Warnock has resigned as Canton's city engineer amid an ongoing contract dispute that Warnock alleges stems from an attempt by the mayor and city attorney to force him out.

A Madison County woman was fighting for her life Saturday after being struck by possibly more than one vehicle.

The seventh and final defendant in a November hazing incident involving the Southern University marching band pleaded no contest Thursday and was put on probation.

The BankPlus Outstanding Students at the Canton Career Center have been announced for the first nine weeks.

Infiniti will get an electric vehicle as early as 2012, and Nissan Motor Co. also will create an electric commercial van to sell to governments and fleet customers.

Ballast, a 2008 film that features a Canton High student in a leading role, is set to be released to DVD and Blu-Ray Nov.

Madison County has some spook-tacular events this Halloween. Catch a fright in Ridgeland with Trunk-or-Treat and the Renaissance at Colony Park Fall Festival.

Despite the sluggish economy that has sent two U.S. carmakers into bankruptcy court this year, Nissan North America Inc.

Ridgeland will pick up Madison County's first payment on bonds for Colony Park next April, but then the county will pay the city's share six months later.