07/17/11 The idea was a long weekend vacation to visit Civil War sites within a one-day drive of Gadsden. Checking various destinations, Fort Blakely in Baldwin County was a five-hour, 316-mile trip; Savannah, Ga., was a six-hour drive, 367 miles away.
07/15/11 DAPHNE, Alabama -- The City Council is searching for waterfront properties that might be suitable to buy, then ecologically restore, using part of $100 million in BP funds set aside to help Alabama recover from last year's oil spill.
07/15/11 Welcome to the Smart Set. Every morning we bring you the gossip coverage, filtered. Today, we're changing things up a bit, with a special section devoted to the Democrats third-consecutive win in last night's Congressional charity baseball game, much beloved by D.C.'s sportier smart setters. Non-baseball can skip to the full column after the jump. The star of this year's 8-2 win was Louisiana ...
07/06/11 The St. Mary Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force, consisting of St. Mary Sheriff Dept., Morgan City Police Dept., Franklin Police Dept., Baldwin Police Dept., Berwick Police Dept., and Chitimacha Police Dept. report the following arrests:
07/03/11 CHEVEL JOHNSON Associates Press NEW ORLEANS Singer Mary J. Blige is no stranger to the Essence Music Festival and this year marked her 10th time as a performer, but her first as the event's closing night performance. In an interview before Sunday's evening concert inside the Louisiana Superdome, Blige told The Associated Press she planned to put on a signature, high-energy show giving fans a ...
07/02/11 share: digg facebook twitter When she returns to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest childhood friend, Glorette, she finds herself pulled into the tumultuous life of Glorette's twenty-two-year-old son - and Fantine's godson - Victor. Ayelet's line about Meryl Streep was hilarious, because I'm a short white woman who writes about communities filled with black men from the ...
06/29/11 MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Manchester United have agreed to sign Spain under-21 goalkeeper David De Gea from Atletico Madrid on a five-year contract, the Premier League champions said on Wednesday.
06/28/11 A sweeping ban on plastic grocery bags will go into effect July 1 for unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. The bag ban was touted by county supervisors as an environmental measure to rid the county of "urban tumbleweed" that...
06/28/11 UPDATE, JUNE 28, 2 P.M.: Sentences totaling 13 years for convictions in two cases have been given to Kenneth Joseph Lucas II, the "kingpin" of an international "phishing" operation that used spam e-m
06/28/11 Marine Jerry Magallenes developed PTSD while on a nine-month tour in Iraq, but has regained a sense of normalcy through bicycling -- and he's not the only one.
06/20/11 Sulphur native A. Katrise Lee Perera has been appointed as the new division superintendent for Isle of Wight County Schools in Virginia. Perera, a Houston Independent School District (HISD) School Improvement Officer, will replace Dr. Michael McPherson, who is retiring at the end of June.
06/20/11 Andrew Breitbart said today Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana has opened himself up to blackmail and extortion for his sexual escapades.
06/17/11 ROBERTSDALE, Alabama -- The first candidate interviewed for the Baldwin County Emergency Management Agency's top job said he was not aware of the state report that found problems in the local agency, but after a quick review said the problems were not overwhelming.
06/14/11 If the U.S. Senate confirms him for a spot on the Securities and Exchange Commission, Daniel M. Gallagher will take a pay cut of more than $1 million a year.
06/13/11 NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones' comeback at Sunday's Tony Awards was all razzle and dazzle! The actress made her first award show appearance last night in New York at the theater world's biggest night, her first since announcing her courageous battle with bipolar II disorder in April.
06/12/11 FOLEY, Alabama -- Many festivals have a variety of things to see and do around the grounds of the event, but starting Friday, the sights to see with the Gulf Coast Hot Air Balloon Festival could be all around south Baldwin County.
06/10/11 NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Michael Douglas says wife Catherine Zeta-Jones is doing well and is enjoying being back at work following her decision to go public with her bipolar II disorder. "Family is great," the actor told Access Hollywood at the Urban Zen Stephan Weiss Apple Awards in New York City on Thursday night.
06/09/11 Hollywood star Kevin Costner will have to go to trial because of a lawsuit that alleges he swindled another actor, Stephen Baldwin, out of millions of pounds by getting his fellow investor to give up his shares in a revolutionary oil-cleaning system.
06/09/11 The School Board of Isle of Wight County announced Thursday that Katrise Perera, a Houston Independent School District School Improvement Officer, will be the new division superintendent. As a School Improvement Officer, Perera led a team of nine principals in the areas of curriculum, strategic planning, and professional development. Prior to her service in Houston, Perera spent seven years as a ...
06/09/11 This list of people booked with driving while intoxicated and related charges was provided by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office. | 
