Madison County News

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.

It's a problem drivers on I-55 in Madison County face each morning: logjam traffic near the Ridgeland exit.

Mike Kent and John Jordan said they each got their share of whacks with a paddle when they were children.

Fewer pumpkins are for sale this fall and farmers said the weather is to blame. Heavy rain caused pumpkin growers to lose about 20 percent of their crop.

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

Hinds County bus drivers will walk out at 4 a.m. Thursday, according to a statement the Union released this afternoon.

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.

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.

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

The roads were backed up Wednesday morning in Madison County as parents lined up to drop their children off at school in response to a threatened strike by school bus drivers.

A former Jackson school teacher has been convicted of capital murder for killing a pregnant woman so she could be with the woman's fiance.

The Madison County School District reaches a temporary agreement with its union drivers to keep buses running in their district.

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

A Mississippi schoolteacher was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for shooting and stabbing to death her lover's pregnant fiancee in 2006.