Madison News

Madison County allied against poverty collected canned food and other non perishables along with turkeys.

A Leake County man is in jail accused of shooting an off-duty Madison County deputy during a domestic dispute.

St. Dominic Hospital, in its proposal to build a $121.6 million hospital in Madison County, says there are not enough beds to care for the growing population in the county.

St. Dominic Hospital is pursuing opening a hospital in Madison County. The hospital has asked the state Health Department for approval to relocate 71 beds from the Jackson campus to create a hospital and medical office building off I-55 between the Reunion Parkway and Gluckstadt Road.

Most women should wait until age 50 to get mammograms and then have one every two years, a government task force said Monday in a major reversal that conflicts with the American Cancer Society's longstanding recommendation of annual screenings starting at 40.

Mississippi parents expect their tax money to pay for their children's education, but a WAPT 'Who's Accountable?' investigation showed that a lot of taxpayer money goes to keeping the system going and may not reach students in the classroom.

It was the site of the sort of frenzied female foraging you usually see only at shoe sales, as shoppers sardined into merchants' booths at Mistletoe Marketplace.

From two stages in the Jackson area comes Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, a classical ballet that delights audiences young and old at Christmastime.

Madison County leaders are optimistic about the results of a new study that shows Starkville's smoke-free laws have improved the health of residents there.

The PGA Tour has had some difficult weather situations this year, topped off by the cancellation of the Viking Classic two weeks ago in Madison, Miss., due to unplayable conditions from near-Biblical amounts of precipitation.

The voice of Young Tiana in the upcoming Disney animated feature 'The Princess and the Frog' may have a familiar ring at St.

Celebrate the Madison the City Chamber's 22nd year of community service at the chamber's 2009 awards meeting and banquet Nov.

For the last 17 years, the Mississippi Food Network has collected canned goods for the Food for Families program, but Madison Central High School made history by raising 134,497 cans -- the most ever raised by one school.

A Madison title insurance company is accusing two brothers of committing mortgage fraud and coercing the title company into issuing fraudulent title insurance policies in Madison County and elsewhere in the state.

The 29th annual Mistletoe Marketplace kicks off the holiday shopping season Thursday-Saturday in the Jackson area.

This week's Viking Classic is the second large metro-area event this month to become a victim of too much rain.

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

5-7. Held at the Mississippi Trade Mart, the regional shopping extravaganza themed "Peace on Earth" features more than 160 merchants and craftsmen selling unique holiday gifts and decorations, clothing, crafts and more.

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The first round of the Viking Classic was postponed due to heavy rains that left the Annandale Country Club in Madison, Mississippi unplayable.A With no PGA TOUR event scheduled next week and rains expected overnight and Friday, there is no guarantee that the event will be finished by Monday, if not shortened.