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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ I have always lived in small towns. If there is one thing I know, it is Small Town, America, and I love it.

It's been nearly four years since The News Courier announced wild hogs were headed this way.

Athens firefighters got a call to a home in the new Hawk's Landing subdivision off North Lindsay Lane Sunday morning to find three separate extinguished blazes.

Limestone County Sheriff's Department reported the following arrests Saturday: * Stevie Charles Adams Jr., 27, of 20614 Myers Road, Athens, breaking and entering a vehicle and possession of a controlled substance * Anthony Delmar Anderson, 39, of 1927 Cain Drive, Athens, possession/rec of a controlled substance * Joshsua Kenneth Bankston, 28, of ...

Do minorities face inequalities in housing, education, criminal justice and health care? While it's a widely held belief that minorities face discrimination in all these areas, a September conference in Huntsville, which will include Limestone County representatives, seeks to find remedies.

Do minorities face inequalities in housing, education, criminal justice and health care? While it's a widely held belief that minorities face discrimination in all these areas, a September conference in Huntsville, which will include Limestone County representatives, seeks to find remedies.

Students in one school system are being told they can't come back for the 2009-2010 school year after they were enrolled for several years prior.

A quick trip down U.S. Hwy. 331 turned into a quick stay at the Covington County Jail for a Limestone County couple after sheriffa s deputies discovered drugs and more than $6,000 in cash inside the couplea s vehicle during a traffic stop Thursday.

Limestone County residents joined Decatur residents Saturday at a Taxpayer Tea Party protest at Gateway Shopping Center.

An organizer of "tea parties" in Athens to protest government bailouts and citizens' "rights being taken away" said an event planned for the Fourth of July will be combined with a Decatur event.

The Alabama Parenthood Initiative of Morgan and Limestone counties - formerly the Alabama Fatherhood Initiative - will host its sixth-annual API awards celebration at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Holiday Inn in Decatur.

Lauderdale County authorities are investigating the shooting death of a man over the weekend to see if self-defense was the motive, but the family of the victim disputes that claim.

Police say 40-year-old Homer Wood Jr. of Lexington was shot and killed in an argument with another man who has not been charged.

An altercation between two Lauderdale County men this afternoon lead to a shooting that is now under investigation.

A $100,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission will open new pathways of information for Limestone County government.