Madison County News

Three Jackson people have been indicted in the slaying of Carolyn Ward of Henderson.

JACKSON, TN a ' Authorities announced the indictments of three people accused in the kidnapping and murder of a Henderson, Tennessee woman.

Jackson police said William Mitchell, 26, of Denmark has been extradited back to Jackson.

Attorneys in the Jackson-Madison County Schools' 46-year-old desegregation lawsuit have been waiting since January for a ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Samuel H. Mays Jr.

CHATTANOOGA - The Jackson Sun has won 10 awards in the annual University of Tennessee-Tennessee Press Association contests.

It took a jury less than three hours Tuesday to convict Randy Antonio Rice of first-degree felony murder in the 2004 slaying of David Martin.

A judge has extended the plea date for the two people charged in the killing of Jackson businessman Bobby Perry and family friend Andreca Manning last year.

In the last three months, Julie Williamson has been able to attend her son's graduation, go to church and Wal-Mart and experience the outside world for the first time in four years.

A Northwest Airlink plane heading from Nashville to Memphis was forced to make an emergency stop at Jackson's McKellar-Sipes Regional Airport.

The case against a Jackson man accused of raping and robbing a woman last week was sent to the Madison County grand jury Thursday afternoon.

It is unreasonable and unprofessional for the NAACP's lawyer Richard Fields to wait more than four years to present Madison County with a bill for his work.

Area tornado sirens are fully functional now after being knocked out by a lightning strike Monday afternoon.

The National Weather Service in Memphis has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for southwestern Carroll County, southeastern Crockett County, southern Gibson County, east central Haywood County and northern Madison County until 5 p.m. At 4 p.m. radar indicated a severe thunderstorm producing quarter-size hail and damaging winds in excess of 60 ...

The National Weather Service in Memphis has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for west central Decatur County, Henderson County, east central Madison County until 4 p.m. At 3:21 p.m., radar indicated a severe thunderstorm producing nickel size hail and damaging winds in excess of 60 mph.

Trees are reported down in Jackson on Hurtland and Sunnyside streets, on Skyline Drive near the Walgreens and the Bent Creek Lane in Jackson, but no injuries are reported, according to the Jackson Police Department.

Madison County commissioners this morning gave first approval to a more than $170 million budget for the new fiscal year after much fretting about the county's financial health and a lengthy debate about whether boost funding for the Health Department.

Jackson police investigators identified and arrested a second man wanted in a June 1 home invasion in the 400 block of Old Humboldt Road, according to a news release.

A Jackson woman was arraigned in court Friday morning after attempting to run from the police Thursday night, according to a news release from the Madison County Sheriff's Department.

Jackson police are looking for two men after a 15-year-old boy was shot in the arm Wednesday night, according to a news release from the Jackson Police Department.

A 13-year-old girl testified Thursday that she was spending the night at her friend's house when his stepfather sexually molested her.