RIDGELAND — Olde Town Middle School students are mourning the death of classmate Marus Hemmingway, 15, who was shot dead at an apartment complex here Friday morning.

Madison Ridgeland Academy defeated Hartfield Academy 42-7 on Saturday to claim the 2021 MAIS 6A state Championship Nov. 21 at Mississippi College’s Robinson-Hale Stadium.

RIDGELAND — City officials said that even though trash and recycling rates are going up, residents here will not pay an increase in their monthly fees.

The Christmas season is gearing up as Christmas events and parades are set to roll throughout Madison County tonight through Saturday. 

MADISON — National cookie franchise Crumbl Cookies will hold a soft opening at its Madison location in Colony Crossing at 8 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, and a grand opening on Friday, Dec. 3, and Saturday, Dec. 4, the company announced today.

RIDGELAND — Officials said a juvenile suspect is in custody facing a charge of murder in the Friday morning shooting death of a male teenager in a Ridgeland apartment complex.

MADISON - The Center Players Community Theatre will present “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” Dec. 2-5 at Madison Square Center for the Arts at 2103 Main St.

Jackson Academy senior offensive lineman Daniel Adams said he has enjoyed playing football for JA and wants to start down a path toward law enforcement.

On Friday night, the Tri-County Academy football team wrapped up their 2021 campaign by winning the school’s fifth state championship.

Members of the River of Pearls Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, celebrated on the DAR National Day of Service by cleaning the Blue Star Mother’s Monument in Madison’s Strawberry Patch Park.

Palliative and complex care for patients in Mississippi’s only children’s hospital won a bronze award in the Tipping Point Challenge, a national competition sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care and the John A. Hartford Foundation

Miss Mississippi for America, Lauren McDonald, came to visit with Mrs. LeAnne Pittman’s K5 class. Miss McDonald is an engineer at Nissan. Miss McDonald talked with the children about STEM …

Magnolia Soap and Bath Company located in the Renaissance in Ridgeland is looking forward to a busy and festive Christmas season.

Madison, Ridgeland and Flora all have Christmas parades set for Saturday, Dec. 4.

At peak times during the COVID-19 pandemic, as case numbers rose and filled hospitals, ambulance personnel reported long wait times for transport patients getting into emergency rooms.

Elbert George Robinson, 38, of Canton, received the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison after a Madison County Circuit Court jury found him guilty of felon in possession of a firearm, Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney Bubba Bramlett announced Thursday.

The owner of a kangaroo that escaped from a backyard enclosure said the animal is back home safely on their farm in Flora after a 5-mile trek around Madison and northern parts of Ridgeland on Tuesday.

A 2022 road plan that includes 80 projects throughout the county designated for improvements was adopted by the Board of Supervisors on Monday.

People began sharing pictures of a kangaroo on social media Wednesday that they said was on the west frontage road of I-55 near the Colony Park Monument.

The Mississippi Children’s Museum’s (MCM) Journey to the North Pole exhibit opens November 22 to kick-off the holiday season.