Category Archives: Local News

During Monday’s Muscogee County School Board work session, the board voted unanimously to hire a new School Security Police Chief and change how employees could handle crisis situations.

A woman was arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of her 9-year-old daughter was found in a duffel bag along a suburban horse trail near Los Angeles, authorities said Monday.

Senator Jim McClendon, R-Springville, has called a news conference at the Alabama Statehouse to discuss his lottery plan.

A few days after coming home from the hospital, 11-year-old Kayla Grimes went back to her school Monday, seeing classmates and teachers for the first time since a tornado destroyed her Beauregard home.

A former Pennsylvania pediatrician was sentenced Monday to at least 79 years in prison for sexually assaulting 31 children, most of them patients.

More than 1,000 people were feared dead in Mozambique four days after a cyclone slammed into the country, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the floodwaters, the nation’s president said.

Picking a college or university to attend is intimidating for many, but figuring out how to pay for it could be even more overwhelming.

A student at Reeltown Elementary School is the Alabama winner of Bonnie Plant’s third grade cabbage program.

The Springer Opera House is facing backlash after an inflammatory comedy event over the weekend made some attendees so upset they walked out.

A Lebanese startup company hopes a smart lighter called the Slighter will help smokers reduce or stop smoking.