Madison News Archives

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.

Sister Mary Dorothea Sondgeroth, president and CEO of St. Dominic Health Services, is being rewarded for outstanding community leadership by the Andrew Jackson Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

Work is expected to get under way soon on a second fire station to serve the residents of the Gluckstadt area.

Madison Central High School graduate Liz Davis won the final round Sunday of P. Diddy's StarMaker on MTV.

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.

The Ridgeland cell-phone tower that is a miniature knockoff of the Washington Monument will be relocated in another week or two, an official with H.C. Bailey Companies said.

CANTON -Recent health issues and a desire to spend more time with family led Administrator Donnie Caughman to plan to resign Dec.

A Hinds County chancery judge said he would decide later today whether to extend a temporary restraining order keeping bus drivers for the Hinds County School District from striking.

Representatives from Madison County Health Department, Madison County School District and Berea Independent School district have finalized plans for conducting school base H1N1 vaccinations in clinics in November.

A hearing is scheduled for Monday in Madison County in an effort to avert a strike by school bus drivers, Madison County Schools Superintendent Mike Kent said.

Top line: Classic is the operative word for the Scarecrow Cruise & Car Show, where great rides rule the roads in Madison.

Representatives with the union that represents bus drivers in Madison County will head to court Monday.

Supervisors hear jail presentations The Webster Progress-Times WALTHALL - Supervisors heard from more firms last week offering their services for design and construction of a new jail.

Madison County school buses should continue running this week and possibly into next week, Superintendent Mike Kent said today.

The city of Ridgeland this week extended its moratorium on certain businesses officials say tend to cause blight.

Country singer Liz Davis of Madison has made it into the final four on the MTV reality show 'P. Diddy's Starmaker.' Two contestants were sent home Sunday, leaving the Madison Central High School graduate among the three women and one man still in the running for a record deal with Diddy's label.

Q: Dear Jack, will we ever get a Carrabba's Italian Grill in Madison and/or Flowood? Also, will we ever get a Red Lobster in Flowood? Thanks.

Through traffic on Weisenberger Road will be detoured, starting next week. The Madison County Board of Supervisors earlier this week agreed to a temporary closure, allowing CN railway company to improve a crossing on the road near Cardox Drive between U.S. 51 and Parkway East.

It didn't take long for viewers to connect with a MOST WANTED suspect. Within hours of showing you an unidentified individual wanted by Ridgeland police, calls began pouring into Crimestoppers.

A man involved in a deadly love triangle testified he had no emotional attachment to the woman accused of killing his pregnant fiancee in 2006.

School leaders in Hinds, Madison and Yazoo counties are bracing themselves for a possible bus strike.

A Brandon man was arrested early this morning and charged with business burglary of the Madison Rite-Aid. Madison police arrested Daniel Wilcher, 24, as he was exiting the business at 1073 Highway 51 about 2 a.m. Responding to a burglar alarm, police reported that they noticed signs of tempering with the drive-through window and a small portion of ...

International Walk to School Day will be held on Wednesday as schoolchildren from Madison Avenue elementary campuses join with millions of children across the world commit to lead healthier lifestyles.

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Two Mississippi transportation commissioners violated state open-meetings laws while discussing a Madison County road project at a dinner with several county officials, the head of the state Ethics Commission says.

The price of saving a life in Madison could be $5. Volunteers with the Madison Fire Department are in the midst of selling raffle tickets for a four-wheeler. The money raised will be used to purchase 12 AEDs that will be placed in public buildings and stores around town.