Madison County Journal

06/03/2026

A popular Lake Caroline restaurant will close later this month as the operator prepares to announce a new location.

A popular Lake Caroline restaurant will close later this month as the owners prepare to announce a new location.

06/03/2026

Two Venezuelan gang members have been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison, deportation, and restitution payments in relation to a November 2024 bank fraud scheme that swept through Mississippi that included a bank in Madison.

Two Venezuelan gang members have been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison, deportation, and restitution payments in relation to a November 2024 bank fraud ...

06/03/2026

Two long-serving Ridgeland police officers, with more than 60 years of combined law enforcement experience, will retire at the end of the month.

05/28/2026

The Mississippi Court of Appeals has upheld the felony child abuse convictions of a Madison County mother sentenced to 15 years in prison, rejecting her claims that jurors should not have heard testimony about extensive, unindicted patterns of abuse against her two children.

Mississippi appeals court unanimously upholds Madison County mother’s felony child abuse convictions and 15-year prison term, rejecting her challenges to abuse ...

05/28/2026

The Mississippi Appeals Court has upheld a lower court’s decision to sentence a Madison County man to life in prison without parole for a capital murder he committed when he was 16 years old, ruling that a recent jailhouse drug-smuggling conviction heavily undermined his claims of rehabilitation.

Mississippi Appeals Court upholds life-without-parole sentence for man who killed store clerk at 16, citing recent jail drug-smuggling conviction that undercut ...

05/28/2026

A Canton man was sentenced to 64 years in prison for selling co***ne out of his Canton home that was within 1,500 feet of a church.

05/28/2026

The Madison County Library System has a slate of summer reading activities that include music, dinosaurs and prizes beginning next month at all branches.

05/27/2026

A roughly three-week closure of the I-55 North ramp to I-220 westbound to repair the bridge starts tonight.

A roughly three-week closure of the I-55 North ramp to I-220 for bridge repairs starts tonight.

05/27/2026

Madison will hold its final Swing Into Summer event this season on Thursday, with live music, grilled hot dogs, and a block playground sponsored by the Mississippi Children’s Museum.

Madison will hold its final Swing Into Summer event this season on Thursday, with live music, grilled hot dogs, and a block playground sponsored by the Mississi...

05/21/2026

Tri-County Academy's baseball coach was arrested for drunk driving last month, the authorities said.

FLORA — The Tri-County Academy baseball coach was arrested for drunk driving last month, the authorities said.