Deatsville News

A Deatsville man was killed Sunday night in a motorcycle wreck in Elmore County, Alabama State Troopers report.

A Deatsville man was killed Sunday night in a one-vehicle motorcycle crash. Daniel Dalessandro, 43, was riding a 2007 Harley Davidson on Ingram Road north of Millbrook at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday when the crash occurred.

Road improvements along the Alabama 14 corridor are much needed and long overdue, according to local and state lawmakers and transportation officials.

Richard Edgar looks at the muddy conditions on his Elmore County farm and wonders when he will get his crop in.

Joshua Brent Davis was born Thursday, July 30, 2009. His parents are Donny and Jackie Davis of Deatsville, Ala.

The warm days of summer have disappeared. Heather Pettus' tan has not. Michelle Pettus keeps the key to the room her tanning bed is in locked away, so that when Heather, her 16-year-old daughter wants to tan, she has to ask permission.

Deatsville resident Judy Parker took home the most blue ribbons among adult competitors at this year's Autauga County Fair, while her granddaughter, Jade Parker, was the most successful entrant among the younger set.

Millbrook police reported that over the last several months, the crime of theft by fraudulent leasing occurred sev eral times at a commercial loca tion at 3563 Highway 14.

A Marbury man and a Deat sville woman were killed late Friday in a single-vehicle mis hap that occurred less than two miles north of the Prattville city limits.

Local and area residents are pinching -- some of them rolling -- their pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters as they prepare to forget a continuing economic re cession, at least for a little while.

Wet conditions may have caused a CSX gravel train to derail Saturday morning in Autauga County.

Dellennie Dorough, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dorough of Deatsville, was awarded the presti gious Pederewski Medal for her National-level presentation dur ing the National Piano Guild Audi tions held recently at Prattville First Baptist Church.

A 21-year-old Madison Coun ty man faces the death penalty in the October 2008 shooting death of a local businessman.

The nonprofit, scholarship management organization, Scholarship Managers, recently gave a boost to local Deatsville resident Arielle Juarez by offer ing her a $1,500 college schol arship, which was awarded at Maxwell Air Force Base.

Circuit Judge Ben Fuller sen tenced an Elmore County man to 30 years in prison Monday morning for a laundry list of sex crime convictions.

WETUMPKA -- An Elmore County man, who told Montgomery police during an employment interview that he had child pornography in his possession and had had sex with an underage girl, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday.

WETUMPKA -- The Elmore County Sheriff's Office has charged three local teens in connection with a rash of area church burglaries.

Numerous early-summer break-ins of unlocked vehicles prompted citizens across the county to exercise more dili gence in securing their proper ty.

The following are recent felony arrests by the Montgomery Police Department. Michael David Cottrell, 18, of 221 Briarbrook Drive was arrested Thursday and charged with theft of property first degree.

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