Ardmore News

ARDMORE a ' An Elkmont woman died in a four-wheeler accident Thursday night near Ardmore.

Karen Abernathy of Elkmont held back tears Friday as she described her daughter as "outgoing" and "free-spirited." Abernathy's 21-year-old daughter, Jessica Lynne Braithwaite, mother of a young son, was killed at about 7:40 Thursday night in an all-terrain vehicle crash on Spence Cave Road, seven miles west of Ardmore.

Sgt. David Whitt, a 25-year veteran of the Athens Police Department, was chosen Ardmore's new police chief Thursday by a vote of the joint councils of that state-line town.

A strange noise startled many residents across North Alabama this morning. The noise was so powerful it rattled many residents' homes.

Can an elected state representative legally serve as a municipal police chief? Several attorney general rulings say not.

The state fire marshal is trying to determine the cause of a Friday afternoon house fire that killed a man on Leggtown Road, northwest of Elkmont, an official said.

The Limestone County Sheriff's Department reported the following arrests Monday: * Frances Mark Croshaw, 52, of 27915 Old Miller Road, Ardmore, third-degree domestic violence * Ronaldo Deleon, 25, of 310 Shaw St., Athens, public intoxication * Alejandro Leon Luna, 34, of Central Parkway, Apt.

An Ardmore mother charged with felony child abuse and her boyfriend have asked the court to let a jury decide their case in September.

A suspect with drug charges led a Limestone County narcotics officer on a chase through two states Monday.

Firefighters survey the damage after bringing a fire under control at a home on Ardmore Avenue in Ardmore.

A prosecutor says two of four Alabama fugitives captured after a weekend standoff in southwestern North Dakota are due in court to face charges of conspiracy to commit robbery.

This undated photo released by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Angela Diana Mink, who according to a U.S. Marshall, helped 22-year-old Ashton Kenny Chase Mink and 26-year-old Joshua Loyd Southwick escape Thursday from a private prison in Perry County, Ala.

The Limestone County Sheriff's Department reported the following arrests Tuesday: * Christy Dianne Haygood, 29, of 19375 Sewell Road, Athens, third-degree domestic violence * Christopher Daniel Leslie, 23, of 766 Clutts Road, Harvest, negotiating a worthless negotiable instrument * Ritchie Gene Powell, 40, of 731 County Road 50, Rogersville, two ...

A search of an inmate returning from a court appearance did not uncover a piece of a hacksaw blade that played a role in the most recent escape from the Montgomery County jail, an incident review states.

The Limestone County Sheriff's Department reported the following arrests Thursday: * Rodger Dale Duncan, 49, of 27369 Sweet Springs Road, Ardmore, driving under the influence and third-degree domestic violence * David Matthew Givens, 37, of 25006 Chapman Hollow, Elkmont, third-degree assault * Craig Kayler Grantham, 24, of 1110 Garrett Drive, ...

A Harvest man, who spent more than two days on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's Top Ten Most Wanted List after he broke out of the Montgomery County, Tenn., jail Friday, led three area law enforcement agencies on a chase that ended with his capture late Monday in Athens.

An Ardmore man on the lam from authorities was arrested Saturday with a cooler full of items to make crystal methamphetamine, said a Limestone County Sheriff's Department official.

A fugitive on Tennessee's Ten Most Wanted list is sitting in a north Alabama jail.

Late Monday night, police in Alabama captured a man who escaped the Montgomery County Jail on Friday.

The Limestone County Sheriff's Department reported the following arrests Wednesday: * William Cody Arnold, 20, of 16783 Quinn Road, Athens, driving under the influence and public lewdness.