Buhl News

Arrests Sunday Jarrod Hyche, 22, 2400 block of Little River Lane, Briarfield, was charged with unlawful posession of cocaine.

“You're just trying to stall this project”

The Tuscaloosa County Commission on Wednesday voted 3 to 1 to seize land needed for a new road between Coker and the site of a new county school in the Romulus community. via Tuscaloosa News

Arrests Friday Frankie Lee Dunson, 30, 3500 block of 24th Street, Northport, was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance. via Tuscaloosa News

“Without him, we didn't have sufficient evidence to proceed.”

Charges have been dropped against a man and two women accused of assaulting and robbing an Army reservist on leave from the Middle East after allegedly luring him into a motel room. via Army Times

Arrests Wednesday Kimberly Nix Holman, 37, 3900 block of Vintage Lane, Northport, was charged with unlawful manufacturing of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of a controlled substance and possession ... via Tuscaloosa News

Arrests Monday Jeffery Jermaine Owens, 35, 6500 block of 36th Street, was charged with unlawful distribution of a controlled substance. via Tuscaloosa News

“I suggested to them that they try to get it on the ballot in November, to put on a 1-cent sales tax that would stay on and go to them and then we'd be cut out of the loop on this thing”

The initial site work is already under way for what the Tuscaloosa County Board of Education hopes will become a new southwestern middle/high school near Coker. via Tuscaloosa News

“My parents tried to make everything as normal as possible for me”

Tyler Christian and his father Ward take a leap at Buhl Elementary School 2008. Ward will celebrate a leap year birthday Friday. via Tuscaloosa News

Arrests Sunday Sebron Lee Channell, Jr., 45, 10800 block of Sipsey Valley Road, Buhl, was charged with felony DUI. via Tuscaloosa News

“Ms. Pate spoke with Mr. Harbin during his audit and admitted to him she did take the money”

A woman formerly employed by the Elrod-Buhl Water Authority has been accused of embezzling $144,247 from the Sipsey Valley Fire Department and the water authority over a five-year period. via Tuscaloosa News

Sheriff's deputies were able to find four boaters stranded in the Sipsey Swamp on Sunday evening after they built a fire that was visible from the air. via Tuscaloosa News

Arrests Saturday Cornelious DeWayne Burton, 38, 3400 block of Willow Lane, was charged with first-degree marijuana possession. via Tuscaloosa News

University of Alabama in Huntsville Area honor scholars for the fall semester include Veronica Franklin of Buhl and Elliott Jones of Northport. via Tuscaloosa News

The Mothers' March on Polio raised $5,032. Workers battled the swollen, muddy waters of the Sipsey River near Buhl to rebuild the collapsed railroad bridge. via Tuscaloosa News

“But we're getting to the point now that they are going to have a bigger effect than ever before.”

Traffic moves over the Sipsey Swamp along U.S. Highway 82 near Buhl on Friday morning. via Tuscaloosa News

“If it is not [favorable], then all bets are off.”

Traffic travels on U.S. Highway 82 near the Buhl community, seen Thursday. The highway has unfinished bridges over the Sipsey River, seen at left. via Tuscaloosa News

Arrests Sunday Kelly Capresse McElroy, 29 11000 block of Pate Road, Buhl, was charged with second-degree forgery. via Tuscaloosa News

“If you're making more than that, you probably shouldn't be getting any additional assistance from the government”

John Walker uses a John Deere Hi-cycle to spray for weeds in one of his soybean fields located off of Shelly Hughes Rd. via Tuscaloosa News

“We came out early for the tree ceremony”

Although the Grinch joined with Jack Frost to drop temperatures to near-freezing, they couldn't stop the 32nd Annual West Alabama Christmas Parade from coming. via Tuscaloosa News

University of Alabama Alabamians who watched the Nov. 19. television TBS special "Ellen's Really Big Show," starring talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, heard the show's main musical score composed by University of ... via Tuscaloosa News