Jackson News

Get lost in a land of sweets this holiday during Ballet Arts, Inc.'s, 32nd annual "The Nutcracker" performance Dec. 13-15 at the Carl Perkins Civic Center.

Lawsuits were filed this week in local State and Federal Courts over the death of a Madison County man who died while he was a prisoner at the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, according to Jackson attorney Mike Weinman.

A Cheatham County man - who has a long history of escaping from authorities - was captured Wednesday in West Tennessee.

Hannah Steiner was sentenced this morning to two years of judicial diversion - or probation.

The Jackson-Madison County Library board of trustees held its monthly meeting Wednesday in the Board Room at the Jackson-Madison County Library, at 433 E. Lafayette Street in Jackson.

The defense attorney for a former Henderson County sheriff accused of attempting to kill his wife last year said his client only fired his gun on the parking lot of The Tap bar in Jackson after he felt threatened by his wife's friends.

We have new facts on a gun store setting up shop next to Andrew Jackson Elementary School in Kingsport, Tenn.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's newest addition to the state's Top Ten Most Wanted list, Albert Jones Smith Jr., has been captured in Jackson.

Former Jackson police chief Rick Staples picked up a qualifying petition this afternoon for next year's Madison County sheriff election, according to Administrator of Elections Kim Buckley.

A jury has been selected for a case in Madison County Circuit Court involving former Henderson County Sheriff Ricky Lunsford.

Jackson may soon have a law that makes it illegal during certain hours for businesses to host parties where guests bring their own alcoholic beverages.

Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork announced on Tuesday that he will not seek a sixth term as sheriff in the August 2014 election.

The warm temperatures the Jackson area has enjoyed the past few days will end with an arctic chill sweeping down by this weekend from the north, bringing snow and ice that may keep folks inside, according to frigid predictions by the National Weather Service.

When the temperatures drop, Greg Jackson makes sure that every one of his school buses are prepared to handle it.

Mason is a 9-month-old mixed breed that grew up in the Jackson County Animal Shelter.

Wink Martindale, Sandy Martindale and fellow Hollywood F.A.M.E Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Steve Resnik on the red carpet at the L.A. Music Awards.

Downtown Jackson continued a tradition it's had since the 1920s on Monday: The Jackson Christmas Parade.

Rusty Robinson and Paul Walker -- the leading man in the "Fast & Furious" street racing movies who died Saturday -- shared a common bond.

The grand jury indicted Gysberts on a charge of solicitation of sexual exploitation of a minor.

A dream for a new church began in a classroom on the campus of Union University in November 2002, as a group of Christian believers met in Penick Academic Complex classroom D-3.