Madison County News

Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith said Monday he is considering turning over some of the county's bad-check unit duties to a collection agency to save the county money.

Madison County legislators say money, or the lack of it, will be the focus of their 2010 session.

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

Jeffery Ferguson, 40, is in the Leake County Jail facing aggravated assault charges for shooting an off-duty Madison County deputy.

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

St. Dominic's Hospital wants to rally south Madison County behind its bid to open a 71-bed hospital here.

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.

The city of Ridgeland, Miss., has adopted an ordinance to help the Madison County school system verify that parents sending their children to the local schools live in the district.

Going on the auction block in Madison County are manufactured housing units that have fallen behind on property taxes.

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.

Madison County supervisors, over the concerns raised by one member, approved a financing plan for a Canton development that calls for the county to pay for public improvements with the higher tax revenue that is expected to be generated.

A Wisconsin man who professes to be the second coming of Christ was sentenced Friday in federal court in Jackson to 36 months in prison for making Internet threats to assassinate then-President-elect Barack Obama.

A Madison title insurance company is accusing two brothers of committing mortgage fraud and leading the title company to issue fraudulent title insurance policies in Madison County and elsewhere in the state.

Mississippi Valley Title alleges attorneys Charles and Chris Evans committed mortgage fraud on banks and induced Mississippi Valley Title to issue fraudulent title insurance policies.

Ridgeland police have made two more arrests in the Oct. 10 armed robbery of a Waffle House at 6931 Old Canton Road.

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

The Secretary of State was looking into questionable activities by the Fine Arts Institute of Mississippi and what it does with the money it receives from Boxcar Bingo, which the institute operates in Olive Branch.

Madison County native George Cole, a 1967 graduate of Velma Jackson High School, was the school's principal from 1978-1999. Now retired, Cole remains active with his alma mater as the chairman of the Velma Jackson High School Foundation.