Jackson News

A former hotel security guard pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge for defacing a Jewish school's Torah scroll and prayer books.

For one Jackson family, this holiday season has been a particularly special one filled with gifts that can't be bought in stores.

Anyone that wishes to address the McClure family, should write Mrs. Mary Bradley McClure, 450 Shadow Ridge Drive, Jackson, TN.

Former Henderson County Sheriff Ricky Lunsford was found guilty of one count of attempted voluntary manslaughter and one count of use of a weapon during the commission of a felony.

Justin Baker, 25, of Jackson, pleaded guilty to a federal charge of damage to religious property/obstruction of religious belief in federal court Monday.

The following essay is part of a series in which dozens of women will reveal what women they most admire.

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.