[gtxvideo vid="pDtmZKwl" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/pDtmZKwl.jpg" vtitle="Tennis Court Complex Change 5”] JACKSON, Tenn. -- City Council members on Tuesday approved more than $35,000 in funding for the new tennis complex in north Jackson. The approved funding includes $14,310 for electrical cable…
[gtxvideo vid="wyMal66y" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/wyMal66y.jpg" vtitle="Haywood Fire Update”] HAYWOOD COUNTY, Tenn. -- State investigators have taken the lead in the investigation of a weekend house fire that left two people badly injured. The victims suffered burns to large portions of…
[gtxvideo vid="bBDNSs4L" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/bBDNSs4L.jpg" vtitle="Tax Free Weekend 5”] JACKSON, Tenn. -- Tennessee‘s tax-free holiday weekend kicks off Friday, but some students have already gone back to school. Parent Ashanta Twiddy said she could not wait because her oldest needed…
[gtxvideo vid="E3W9FwR0" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/E3W9FwR0.jpg" vtitle="Huntingdon House Fire”] HUNTINGDON, Tenn. -- Firefighters were called to a house fire Monday just as they were concluding their monthly fire drill. Crews responded around 8 p.m. to the blaze in the 22000 block…
[gtxvideo vid="Nn2T6SVU" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/Nn2T6SVU.jpg" vtitle="Rawls Evidence Tampering”] UNION CITY, Tenn. -- A man is facing a tampering with evidence charge after police say he ate two marijuana cigars when they pulled him over. Police say Jerry Rawls of Memphis…
[gtxvideo vid="5wP7afFQ" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/5wP7afFQ.jpg" vtitle="YMCA Closes PKG”] JACKSON, Tenn. -- The Jackson YMCA announced they are closing their doors after serving the community for generations. "We hate that we had to make this decision for both our employees and…
[gtxvideo vid="PQwruKrN" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/PQwruKrN.jpg" vtitle="Defaced Tombstone PKG”] SAVANNAH, Tenn. -- Some have tried to clean the three-word phrase "White Lives Matter" off of the tombstone of Queen Haley, ancestor of writer Alex Haley. The residue of the vandalism remains,…
[gtxvideo vid="y8tvGGJ8" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/y8tvGGJ8.jpg" vtitle="Savannah CME Church Meeting”] HARDIN COUNTY, Tenn. -- Residents concerned about racial tension in Savannah met Monday at a local church. After hearing about an effort to move a Nathan Bedford Forrest statue in Memphis…
[gtxvideo vid="qxUhU5x8" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/qxUhU5x8.jpg" vtitle="Brown Unlawful Weapon”] JACKSON, Tenn. -- A man was in city court Monday after police allegedly caught him shoplifting and in illegal possession of a gun. Brent Brown was arrested Saturday after a Belk loss…
[gtxvideo vid="CPk8Q0Md" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/CPk8Q0Md.jpg" vtitle="Humboldt Announcement”] GIBSON COUNTY, Tenn. -- A Humboldt school has been included among the state of Tennessee's Reward Schools. Superintendent Versie Hamlett announced Monday that East Elementary was included in the top 5 percent of…
[gtxvideo vid="0uiMNe9W" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/0uiMNe9W.jpg" vtitle="Suspected Shooter Caught PKG - Memphis”] MEMPHIS (AP) -- The ex-con accused of killing a Memphis police officer has turned himself in to federal authorities, ending an intensive two-day manhunt. Louis Goggans, spokesman for the…
[gtxvideo vid="yzkTgTxe" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/yzkTgTxe.jpg" vtitle="Miller Domestic Assault”] JACKSON, Tenn. -- A Jackson man appeared Monday in city court on a charge of aggravated domestic assault. According to investigators and court documents, Kevin Orlanda Miller punched his wife in the…
[gtxvideo vid="wQaCyhEq" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/wQaCyhEq.jpg" vtitle="TN Recognizes Schools”] MADISON COUNTY, Tenn. -- Two schools in the Jackson-Madison County School System have been recognized as Reward Schools by the state of Tennessee. South Side High School receives the honor for the…
[gtxvideo vid="Day4zGiA" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/Day4zGiA.jpg" vtitle="Merriweather Murder Charge”] JACKSON, Tenn. -- A cold-case investigation has led to a murder charge in a 2013 homicide. Autonius Merriweather was indicted Monday on one count of first-degree murder in the shooting death of…
[gtxvideo vid="JkoNlE7X" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/JkoNlE7X.jpg" vtitle="Back To School PKG”] JACKSON, Tenn. -- Jackson-Madison County students returned to class Monday, and the district said crews worked long hours to get facilities ready. Faculty greeted students as they filed into North Side…
