Jackson News

AWARE Inc., 706 W Michigan Ave., will host a luncheon and ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov.

The owner of Potter's Pub in Jackson pleaded guilty this week in federal court to filing a false tax return with the Internal Revenue Service.

Three homeowners testified Monday that a Jackson man falsified documents to raise the price of their home, without their knowledge.

Eddie Davenport of Jackson has been legally blind since 1993 -- but he doesn't let that hold him back.

Voters cast their ballots at Cascades Baptist Church on Tuesday. With 95 of 107 precincts reporting, Mike Nofs, a Republican from Battle Creek, leads with 18,848 votes to Martin Griffin's 10,822 votes in the 19th District state Senate race.

Southbound Brown Street is closed today at Morrell Street so a new pipe can be installed as part of a water main construction project.

Bernard Brown tosses a bag of trash into the pit that holds refuse before it is burned at Jackson County's Resource Recovery Facility.

The leaders of Jackson Community College and Allegiance Health were in Lansing on Thursday to lobby lawmakers to support bills giving community colleges the authority to grant baccalaureate degrees in nursing.

There is a bullet hole in the front door of the home at 705 First St., and the rear windshield of a car parked in front of the house was shattered by gunfire.

Temp: 53.0 F Wind Chill: 49 F Font Size: An 18-year-old Jackson man is in the hospital after being shot in the shoulder.

When Carrie A. Good was hired as administrator of the John George Home five years ago, the 31-year-old woman took over a residential men's home on the verge of being closed by the state.

After opting out of Grass Lake Township's newly established Downtown Development Authority last June, officials from the Jackson District Library are considering changing their minds.

Jackson police have released the name of the Jackson woman who died Sunday night after authorities said she walked into the path of an Amtrak train.

The former salon coordinator for Headliners Design Studio has been charged with stealing at least $50,000 from the Jackson beauty salon.

A longtime incumbent and a newcomer are vying for Jackson's 1st Ward City Council seat.

Billy Craig gets Northwest Elementary School students involved with his song about respect during an assembly Friday.

A child-care center in downtown Jackson that recently lost state funding is turning to area residents to help sponsor the 36 children affected.

Job seekers in metropolitan Detroit, Flint, Jackson and Muskegon have their work cut out for them relative to the rest of the state, new data show.

A Jackson man arrested last month after police say he participated in a break-in spree in two counties was sent to prison Thursday in a separate case.

Jackson Public Schools has lost 336 students since last fall, the highest decrease in enrollment in at least nine years, according to numbers released by the district Thursday.