Madison County News

Evidence indicates the same two men robbed both stores, investigators said. The first incident was reported about 10 p.m. Thursday, when two armed men robbed the Dollar General Store at 3224 N. Highland Ave. The robbers took personal items from employees and cash from the store.

Sheriff's deputies say the parents of a 19-year-old were aware of underage drinking at a party that resulted in charges against 63 people early Sunday.

Jackson police are investigating a shooting that injured a 1-year-old child at The Villages at Old Hickory Apartments, at 550 Old Hickory Blvd., shortly before 11 p.m. tonight.

About 10:15 p.m. Sunday, the Madison County Sheriff's Office responded to an automobile crash in the 2000 block of Beech Bluff Road.

The Madison County board of commissioners will meet at the West Tennessee Research and Education Center today to finish one year while preparing for the next.

That's why the vision of Ida "Lucy" Wilbourn to preserve the West Bemis Elementary School deserves support.

A hundred and twenty American flags are planted on the field, each representing patriots who fought in the American Revolution.

Jackson residents Monica Starks, 19, and Marquise Chism, 23, are charged in relation to case involving harboring and sexually exploiting a 16-year-old female runaway, according to Jackson police.

Registration for the session begins at 7:30 a.m. Saturday at the Board of Education, 310 North Parkway.

Jackson police have charged a 16-year-old Jackson boy with aggravated robbery for his involvement in the June 3 armed robbery of an employee at All Star Realty, according to a news release.

Jackson police have charged two 18-year-olds in connection to an April robbery of a man in Muse Park, according to a Wednesday afternoon news release from the Jackson Police Department.

Working through the West Tennessee Heart & Vascular Center, a team of doctors at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital have performed the first three transcatheter aortic valve replacements in Jackson.

Jackson police charged Paul Richard Johnson, of Humboldt, with solicitation of a minor and attempted aggravated statutory rape of a 17-year-old girl, according to a news release.

Willie Lamar Ozier appeared in Madison County General Sessions Court, Division I, for sentencing today.

Investigators with the Madison County Sheriff's Office are investigating the death of a Jackson boy.

Sara Kimes and her husband never had children, but she is happy to serve children at Youth Town whom she loves dearly by baking her famous cakes.

A Jackson man and woman will be sentenced in July after being found guilty of charges in a 2012 home invasion robbery and the kidnappings of a woman and her 3-month-old child.

Alyce Massengill has lived 12 years with this unanswered question: Who killed my father? Sammy Massengill, 44, was killed on Feb. 24, 2001, in his home on Old Pinson Road in Madison County.

On Wednesday, Metro Narcotics investigators in conjunction with the Multi-Jurisdictional Violent Crime and Gang Task Force served a narcotics search warrant at 1160 Hollywood Drive, Apartment 657, in west Jackson.

Jackson police are investigating a late night shooting that injured a man and woman in East Jackson, according to a news release from the Jackson Police Department.