[gtxvideo vid="TRf6MdWb" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/TRf6MdWb.jpg" vtitle="Tornado Sirens”] WEST JACKSON -- The county commission approved funding Monday night for a new emergency siren in west Jackson. The siren on top of Jackson-Madison County General Hospital quit working in November. The county…
[gtxvideo vid="Givz83a9" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/Givz83a9.jpg" vtitle="Crime Victims Honored”] EAST JACKSON -- Engaging communities and empowering victims — that was the message in east Jackson Tuesday. In honor of National Crime Victims' Rights Week, a tree was planted in east Jackson…
[gtxvideo vid="37TLdftj" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/37TLdftj.jpg" vtitle="JCS Orpheum Nomination”] NORTH JACKSON -- Congratulations to Jackson Christian's theater program. Its production of Beauty and the Beast has been nominated for four Orpheum High School Musical Theatre Awards. The school is among 30…
[gtxvideo vid="WQLHQlpE" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/WQLHQlpE.jpg" vtitle="Deputy Saves Burglar - Mal”] MADISON COUNTY, Tenn. -- A Madison County sheriff‘s deputy found a break-in suspect hiding in a refrigerator Tuesday morning, according to Sheriff John Mehr. The sheriff said the deputy probably…
[gtxvideo vid="xvB19r9f" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/xvB19r9f.jpg" vtitle="Dresden Church Fire - Tiffany”] WEAKLEY COUNTY, Tenn. -- Monday's overnight storm caused a church's destruction from multiple lightning strikes, according to firefighters. Dresden Fire Chief Paul Hutcherson said when firefighters arrived around 3 a.m.…
MADISON COUNTY, Tenn. -- Monday night, the Madison County Commission approved the sale of two lots on Southern Street in east Jackson to Southwest Human Resources Agency, which plans on building two homes for low- to moderate-income families. The sale…
[gtxvideo vid="otSnK9L5" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/otSnK9L5.jpg" vtitle="Redbones Oil Spill Effects”] JACKSON, Tenn. -- Monday marked the fifth anniversary of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. There are businesses in the Hub City who are still affected by that…
[gtxvideo vid="XmPl3w1P" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/XmPl3w1P.jpg" vtitle="JCS Wings Program”] JACKSON, Tenn. -- Jackson Christian School has announced a new program intended to better serve the individual needs of the school's students. Starting this fall, the school with launch the "Wings" program,…
MARTIN, Tenn. - University of Tennessee at Martin's athletic director Julio Freire is assuming an important role in women's college basketball. The Skyhawks AD has been selected as one of 12 members on the NCAA Women‘s Basketball Oversight Committee. “It…
[gtxvideo vid="6sA3sKlL" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/6sA3sKlL.jpg" vtitle="Miss TN In Bemis”] BEMIS, Tenn. -- A Tennessee celebrity went back to school Monday, but she didn't have a backpack — she wore a crown. Miss Tennessee 2014 Hayley Lewis spent her morning with…
[gtxvideo vid="66i7k1pH" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/66i7k1pH.jpg" vtitle="CHester Co Sink Hole - Chelsea”] CHESTER COUNTY, Tenn. -- The above average rainfall causes a giant sinkhole in the parking lot of a Henderson business. The sinkhole was deep and wide enough to swallow…
[gtxvideo vid="ooJrlRsN" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/ooJrlRsN.jpg" vtitle="Storm Grant - Jordan”] HARDIN COUNTY, Tenn. -- A winter storm shutting down parts of Hardin County for an entire week in February was costly, but Gov. Bill Haslam announced Monday help is on the…
[gtxvideo vid="LAzyxeV9" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/LAzyxeV9.jpg" vtitle="Varsity Market Theft”] DOWNTOWN JACKSON -- A woman appeared in Jackson court Monday on charges of stealing from a Jackson business where she worked. Yolanda Nixon is facing eight theft counts after allegedly stealing money…
[gtxvideo vid="pGzcscpK" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/pGzcscpK.jpg" vtitle="Ellsion Disorderly Conduct”] DOWNTOWN JACKSON -- A man went before a judge Monday on accusations of causing a disturbance and then resisting arrest outside a Jackson business. Antonio Martez Ellison is accused of cursing and…
[gtxvideo vid="mFBXAKq0" playlist="" pid="OTSe9U1y" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/mFBXAKq0.jpg" vtitle="JPD Officer Assaulted - Mal”] JACKSON, Tenn. -- A 19-year-old woman accused of attacking a Jackson police officer faced a judge on Monday. The department confirms the officer went to the hospital to get checked…
