Jackson News

On Sunday, worshippers from several West Tennessee churches bowed their heads in prayer for positive changes in Jackson.

The houses were stocked full of brightly lit and perfectly decorated Christmas trees.

You focus on the essentials -- milk, cookies, bread and batteries. Hey, if this lasts until Christmas Eve, the milk and cookies are essential for Santa.

The only defense he has offered for the mess he has created is that he has done nothing illegal and that his mistakes relate to his personal life, not his public office.

The USJ Christmas Choral Concert will be at 2 p.m. today in the Blankenship Theatre on the Upper School/Middle School campus, 232 McClellan Road.

The project was overseen by the Jackson Lodge 45. The day started at Cici's Pizza at 99 Old Hickory Blvd. in Jackson, where kids and their families were given lunch.

A series of stories for this year's Brighter Christmas fundraiser are being published in The Jackson Sun and on jacksonsun.com, with the first story published on Thanksgiving Day.

From the readers: I would like to send a big heart to the person who turned in the envelope containing a Christmas card with money inside.

Judge Nathan Pride read the charges to the jury before dismissing them and asking them to return Monday morning to continue.

Emergency crews and residents are preparing winter storms predicted to bring freezing rain and ice into northern Mississippi and West Tennessee.

Celebrating the holiday season causes our minds to turn to those blessings for which we are thankful.

Following a Wednesday transfer hearing in Madison County Juvenile Court, Judge Christy Little ruled that there was sufficient probable cause that Lancaster committed the crimes.

Rain continues to fall in Jackson with temperature in the low 30s. The Tennessee Highway Patrol Memphis office is reporting heavy sleet and icing on the roadways in Lauderdale, Dyer, Obion and Lake counties.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation hosted a public design meeting Thursday in Jackson to discuss an interchange construction project on the U.S. 45 Bypass from Interstate 40 to Old Hickory Boulevard.

Dec. 06--Whatever monster or villain was on the screen, the most intimidating presence at the Luez Theater in Bolivar, Tenn., for its first two decades of operation was usually owner-manager Louise Mask, who had no children to christen but gave a shortened version of her first name to her movie house.

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.