Frisco City News

July 9 - More than a month after a man's body was found slumped over in a parked car at the Frisco City Baseball Complex, police say they have charged a 17 year old with his murder.

"I love my country and don't like to see it under dictator leadership." That's how an e-mail sent today from Iran ends.

Ask Virginia Hooper if her job is physically demanding, and the Atmore grandmother offers this simple reply: "When we get ready to move furniture around at my house, I just grab my side of it." Chances are that furniture will slide into place with nary a scratch as long as Hooper directs it.

Many years ago, perhaps more than even he would like to recount, Herb Haddock and his wife, Charlotte, would make the weekly trek from their home in Frisco City, Ala., where they each taught at the local high school, to their parents homes in Vernon.

Frisco City Police and Monroe County Deputies are on the search for two suspects who they say shot at a police officer several times during a traffic stop.

Authorities in southwest Alabama are looking for a suspect who fired on sheriff's deputies.

But her father, who worked at a Eufaula paper mill, died of cancer during her senior year and her stepfather shattered his hip working on his dairy farm.

April 20 - Another community is trying to follow Bayou La Batre's fashion satement.

Nothing draws college students to a porn movie like trying to ban it. About 200 University of Maryland students have watched clips from "Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge." Last week, administrators axed plans to show the triple X-rated movie, after a state lawmaker threatened to cut off funding for the school.

Agee Broughton runs a general store in Perdue Hill. It's just a few miles from Alabama River Newsprint.

As I watch the debate over who should be re sponsible for feeding county inmates in Alabama, I think back to stories my dad used to tell of his father, who was for many years the sheriff of Monroe County.

A local school is closing and the Monroe County Superintendent says the bad economy is to blame.

A flip off his bicycle has taken the "Today" show's Matt Lauer off the air. NBC says Lauer was riding his bicycle this weekend when a deer jumped into his path.

Silver-haired, deep-voiced, and 4 feet 4 inches tall, David Stewart walks into Boo Radley's restaurant, greeting diners as he passes.

Sara Wiggins loves to laugh By MaryClaire Foster Q: Where are you from and when were you born? A: Frisco City.

With approximately 100 new employees being hired every week since Dec. 1, the Wind Creek Casino and Hotel is bringing in hundreds of potential new residents to Atmore.

Feeling the ripple effects of poor housing sales, Standard Furniture Manufacturing has laid off another 80 people at its Bay Minette plant.

BAY MINETTE, Ala. a ' Standard Furniture says it has only has cut 340 jobs this year, less than half the 700 quoted this week in a report in the Mobile Press-Register . A total of 200 of those were at the ...

Feeling the ripple effects of poor housing sales, Standard Furniture Manufacturing has laid off another 80 people at its Bay Minette plant.