Madison County News

A man who was shot Thursday in Humboldt has died, and a Humboldt man has been charged with assaulting him, police said Saturday.

El Rodeo owners are opening their second restaurant at the Old Hickory Mall. The restaurant could open as soon as Monday, depending on when owners receive final approval from the city of Jackson.

A Jackson woman has been indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in the slaying of her husband, according to a news release from the Jackson Police Department.

A final report from an education reform group chaired by former Sen. Bill Frist outlines a five-year plan to make public schools in Tennessee the top in the region.

Jackson small business owners have started a reward fund to draw out information about who shot locksmith Troy Mitchell while he was working at an apartment complex earlier this week.

Farmers who once hoped to reap record corn, cotton and soybean crops were forced to watch their future harvests continue to deteriorate in their fields last week as abnormally high rainfall continued to destroy unharvested crops.

A Tennessee Department of Transportation contract worker was flown to Regional Medical Center in Memphis early Monday morning after being hit on eastbound Interstate 40.

Unemployment in Madison County reached 11 percent last month, the highest percentage rate since 1983.

Investigators said the victim Troy Mitchell, 44 of Medon remains in critical condition after he was shot in the face while working in the parking lot of Guardian Courts apartments.

Police have charged a Jackson man in the 10th homicide of the year, according to a news release from the Jackson Police Department.

Every year, local families have the opportunity to come together and support one another in the one thing they all share - the loss of a baby.

The president of the group that runs the Denmark West High Community Center says her facility is not the one that could financially benefit from a June 2008 County Commission vote that allowed a private landfill in the West Madison County community.

Jackson's George Schrader made history in the Tennessee BASS Federation State fishing tournament when he reeled in the largest bass ever caught in the tourney that tipped the scales at 10 pounds, 14 ounces.

Surveillance cameras inside and outside the Jackson Bowling & Family Fun Center allowed police to reconstruct the final moments of the life of Jerome Ellington, who died in January after he was shot in the chest.

A Jackson man previously charged with second-degree murder in the 2008 death of Teresa Eddy has been re-indicted on charges including first-degree murder.

Madison County Historian Linda Higgins wiped tears away and shook her head in disbelief when she was named Woman of Achievement for 2009 by a professional women's group on Monday in downtown Jackson.

The Madison County Beer Commission will meet to consider the following application to sell beer in Madison County: Leo Allen Comer has made an application to sell beer at a location to be known as Comer Place, located at 858 1/2 Mt.

As Jackson and Madison County leaders try to work out county support of a city-proposed redevelopment tax district, one county commissioner wants some clarification about county leaders' involvement and demeanor in the efforts.

One area of northeast Jackson is about to help prop up the local construction industry and provide about 100 jobs when construction of several future businesses is completed.

Madison County leaders and members of Jackson's redevelopment board may have made progress Tuesday morning toward securing county backing for a special midtown tax district, but not without assuring another delayed vote on the issue.