07/18/11 Cleburne County deputies today were searching for a Jacksonville man who has eluded police custody twice after being arrested Saturday morning on charges of domestic violence and possession of marijuana.
07/17/11 From the time the government began purchasing land in 1935 to create the Talladega National Forest, two crews from the Civilian Conservation Corps did the legwork involved in turning it into a recreational destination.
07/13/11 Seyram Selase, a 27-year-old Munford native, is headed to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
07/13/11 "But it's a dry heat," they say. Well, they say that somewhere. Not in Calhoun County.
07/12/11 Seyram Selase will urge Congressional staffers not to put programs that help low-income young people enter higher education.
07/12/11 Two local residents want the city to build artificial whitewater rapids near Coldwater Mountain. The Anniston City Council will discuss the idea today.
07/11/11 According to David Beasley, the Eliminate Project coordinator for Alabama, if a mother is not immunized against tetanus, her child risks contracting MNT at birth and will die within 10 to 14 days.
06/29/11 Drivers beware! Thieves are out to snatch your car. A recent report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau shows the River Region is 80th out of 366 American cities for vehicle theft in 2010...
06/26/11 WOMAN TO WOMAN BREAST CANCER SUPPORT Group meets at 7 p.m. Monday in pob 300 conference room, Gadsden Regional Medical Center campus.
06/19/11 Non-Deadline Reporting: 1st Place: Opelika-Auburn News, "Into A Cool March Night," Ed Enoch , Amy Weaver ; 2nd Place: The News-Courier , Athens, "Who'll Stop The Pain?"
06/17/11 The American Water Works Association (AWWA) recently announced that the Greenville Water System, of the City of Greenville, South Carolina, won the annual "Best of the Best" Water Taste Test.
06/14/11 A year has passed since Hobson City made a serious push to restart its police department. Though sworn municipal officers are still not patrolling the streets, town officials have not given up on their goal.
06/14/11 City officials estimate that 1,000 houses in the Model City are abandoned, or have already been demolished. The city spends about $100,000 per year maintaining them. One city councilman wants to see a much bigger effort.
06/13/11 Recently approved district lines will mean a new representative for St. Clair County in Washington, D.C. The Alabama Legislature passed the plan late Thursday, upon the recommendation of the redistricting committee chaired by Rep. Jim McClendon, R-Springville.
06/12/11 When the final gavel of the 2011 Regular Session sounded and the Alabama Legislature adjourned, it ended the most productive legislative session in decades, if not ever.
06/12/11 On June 9, the Parliament's Constitutional Committee established a working group tasked with shoring up regulations related to the country's much-touted e-voting system.
06/12/11 Published: Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 11:16 p.m.
06/09/11 Norton attended his last Memorial Day celebration in May. He died Monday in Cartersville, Ga., where he lived with his daughter Melissa Chaus. He was 74.
06/09/11 Two more interns have recently begun offering their services at The Star, adding their contributions to four others who arrived in the newsroom in May.
06/09/11 By M.J. Ellington Montgomery Bureau Bills to fund the budgets, make campaign contributions more transparent and others, including a controversial bill defining the moment life begins, remain for the last day of the 2011 legislative session. Today is the last day of the session and key bills to balance the budgets are still pending. | 
