Epes News

A reward of up to $100,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for a fire at the Epes, Ala., post office.

A fire at the post office in Epes, Ala., was called in to 911 around 6 a.m. Friday.

A post office in the town of Epes was burglarized and set on fire. According United States Postal Inspector Tony Robinson, burglars broke into the post office between 1 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. Friday.

U.S. Steel Corp. plans to build a $450 million plant on the Tennessee-Tombigbee River near the tiny town of Epes in Sumter County.

Last Updated:May 31. 2008 11:05PM Published: June 01. 2008 3:30AM Legislators ended their five-day special session Saturday with passage of next year's $6.4 billion education budget and related bills only to ...

Sen. E.B. McClain, D-Midfield, right, talks with Chip Hill of the lieutenant governor's office in the Senate chamber at the Alabama Statehouse during the final day of the special legislative session Saturday.

“New jobs coming to the Black Belt.”

THE ISSUE: A planned U.S. Steel plant in Sumter County brings needed investment and jobs to the economically depressed region. via Birmingham News Online

“There will be computer labs and reading rooms and other programs that exercise the minds, not so much as the body. The body, but the mind as well”

The Second Annual Mayor of Epes Celebrity Basketball Camp will be held in June in Sumter County. via WTOK-TV Meridian

“In the country, the only time you see folks is when you go to church, go to a funeral or go to a barbecue club”

Behind the same tin-roof shack where the Timillichee Barbecue Club was founded 81 years ago, Junior Brown blazed a propane flamethrower into a 10-foot-tall furnace packed with a pile of hickory wood. via Birmingham News Online

“This is really going to help the competitive position Fairfield has in the steel market”

Posted by Birmingham News -- Dawn Kent April 18, 2008 11:55 AM U.S. Steel Corp . via Everything Alabama

U.S. Steel Corp. has filed permits to construct two new facilities in Sumter County, as part of a multimillion investment program in Alabama. via Birmingham Business Journal

Opening statements began Wednesday in the first-degree murder trial of a man accused in the 2001 death of a 58-year-old Pensacola woman. via Pensacola News Journal