JACKSON, Tenn. -- City leaders welcomed local college students at Tuesday morning's City Council meeting. City Councilman Ernest Brooks hosted a group of African-American Jackson State Community College freshmen. The students attended the meeting and later participated in a mock…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A federal appeals court has ruled against a Tennessee death row inmate's challenge as he nears his execution date next week. On Tuesday, a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld a lower court's decision…
MEMPMHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors say 18 people have been charged in Tennessee with using a music label to defraud banks and sell marijuana. The U.S. attorney's office said in a news release that 17 people from Memphis and…
JACKSON, Tenn. -- Two people are in custody after a high-speed chase ends in a north Jackson neighborhood Tuesday morning. Tennessee Highway Patrol has confirmed two women were arrested after a high-speed chase around 11:30 a.m. ended at the dead…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has died. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88. She was the first black woman to receive the Nobel…
JACKSON, Tenn. -- The Jackson-Madison County School System has received a grant to expand a career readiness program in the district. The $60,000 Perkins Reserve Grant will allow the district to pay for updates to equipment, certification exams and a…
JACKSON, Tenn.--"I want to get this taken care of without anymore impediments, we need to do it," said JMCSS Interim Superintendent Ray Washington. Washington said school board members and parents are ready…
JACKSON, Tenn. --Local parents of the Jackson-Madison School System are getting together for a roundtable discussion. The discussion is called 'We need to Talk.' One parent said this is a chance for parents to share ideas and concerns with each…
JACKSON, Tenn. -- At least 30 people were killed over the weekend in two different mass shootings, one in Ohio and the other in Texas. Memorials are already starting to appear to…
JACKSON, Tenn. -- With the recent mass shootings over the weekend, public safety has been a main concern, especially for those in shopping centers. "You just come out here thinking you going…
MADISON COUNTY, Tenn. -- Summer break is over, and it's time to hit the books. Jackson-Madison County school leaders and teachers greeted students Monday morning for their first day back. "We're starting…
JACKSON, Tenn. -- A leadership group at Union University used donations to install a concrete cross on the campus. Leadership Union installed the cross in Hadley Circle on July 31. "It is the work that we in Leadership Union, the…
MILAN, Tenn. -- Authorities are asking for your help identifying several people seen on surveillance video. Police believe these individuals, shown in surveillance video in the area of a warehouse that caught fire last week in Milan, may have information…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities say a sheriff's deputy has been stabbed and a sexual assault suspect has been fatally shot in Tennessee's largest county. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Keli McAlister said a Shelby County sheriff's deputy approached a…
McKENZIE, Tenn. -- McKenzie police say a large police presence around a Forrest Avenue home Saturday was due to an investigation into what investigators believed could have been a pipe bomb. In a news release Monday, McKenzie police say officers…
