 02/26/10 Families can enjoy a taste of Alabama all year long with food festivals across the state. The BBQ Hog Wild Festival in Mobile and Elberta's Original German Sausage Festival take place in March.
 02/25/10 Families can enjoy a taste of Alabama all year long with food festivals across the state. The following list includes 30 food festivals that are among the many cuisine-themed events promoted by the Alabama Tourism Department.
 02/24/10 DHS Key Club members hope to be able to send a child to a special-needs camp
 02/22/10 Associated Press - February 22, 2010 6:34 AM ET SELMA, Ala. (AP) - The national Teach for America service program is expanding into six counties in west Alabama during the next three...
 02/21/10 By Wayne Grayson Staff Writer Two West Alabama high school students have been nominated for the United States service academies by U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby of Tuscaloosa.
 02/20/10 By Ashley Boyd Staff Writer The nationally known Teach for America service program will expand into six counties in the Black Belt during the next three years.
 02/20/10 Jeff Kriet of Ardmore, Okla., is on top of the leaderboard at the 2010 Bassmaster Classic following the second day of fishing Feb. 20 at Shelby County's Lay Lake.
 02/19/10 A warming trend was the boost the 51 competitors needed for a productive Day 1 at the 40th Bassmaster Classic, and sunny skies Friday afternoon were accommodating for most as several limits of more than 16 pounds were brought to the scales...
 02/12/10 By Coy Slavik Special to The Tuscaloosa News Following are updates and statistics through Feb. 10 of former Tuscaloosa-area high school athletes now competing at the collegiate level: Baseball n West Alabama senior outfielder-infielder Douglas Frazier (Tuscaloosa County): Was 5-for-24 (.208) with four runs, one double, two RBI as Tigers went 4-1.
 02/12/10 By Brian Reynolds Staff Writer A winter weather system making its way across Texas and Louisiana is expected to drop 2 to 4 inches of snow on Tuscaloosa County starting early today, leading to the closure of city and county public schools.
 02/11/10 The National Weather Service has predicted anywhere from two to five inches of snow to fall in east central Alabama Friday, beginning in the morning. Much of central Alabama was placed on a Winter Storm Watch Thursday afternoon.
 02/11/10 In Jefferson and Shelby counties, two to four inches of accumulation is possible when heavy snowfall begins here between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m.
 02/06/10 MOBILE, Ala. -- Liquid Environmental Solutions in Mobile announced Friday afternoon that the company would no longer accept shipments of waste liquids from the Perry County landfill.
 02/06/10 Roquez Johnson and Ron Smith helped G.W. Carver beat Demopolis 57-48 on Friday in the Class 5A, Area 5 tournament semifinals.
 02/05/10 Rankings and capsules by Scout.com's Andrew Bone, Special to the Tuscaloosa News Here's a look at where the top 50 recruits in Alabama signed. Here are Nos. 41-50.
 02/05/10 From combined reports LIVINGSTON | The University of West Alabama on Thursday announced the signing of three more football players. Justin Hawkins, Kody Lundsford and Lindsey Spinks will join the Tigers for the 2010 football season.
 01/28/10 The decision to maintain the company's factory in the Western New York community of Derby -- along with its 330 jobs--was nothing personal, strictly business, said New Era Cap Co. CEO Christopher Koch.
 01/28/10 Maker of Major League Baseball hats has chosen its New York plant to survive as company?s sole U.S. production facility and will close its Alabama plant later this year.
 01/28/10 BUFFALO, NY - Three hundred and thirty employees of New Era 's Derby plant learned Wednesday that the plant will remain open. The fate of the local plant had been in doubt while management was deciding to stop operations either here in WNY or at another facility in Alabama.
 01/28/10 A big blow to the economy in West Alabama. More than 350 people working at the New Era Cap Corporation in Demopolis will lose their jobs. The company which makes major league baseball caps, will close |