Gordo News

Two local bands were honored Saturday at the 32nd annual West Alabama Marching Band Festival in Gordo.

Remember going to the bank with your parents as a kid? Remember when the tellers always gave you a Dum-Dum sucker as a treat for being bored for a whole five minutes? Me, too.

Governor Bob Riley has ordered college and university presidents to notify him if elected officials attempt to hide spending in their districts by transferring money through their schools.

CERRO GORDO – U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson, R-Urbana, will hold a town hall meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Cerro Gordo High School gymnasium.

Police believe a Gordo man found dead in a wrecked vehicle this weekend was the victim of an accidental gunshot wound.

Jet Pep Inc., a petroleum company with 104 gas stations across the state of Alabama, has increased its presence in West Alabama, reported The Tuscaloosa News .

Local schedule THURSDAY Athens 48, J.O. Johnson 6 Baldwin Co. 7, at Lee-Montgomery 0 Montgomery Aca.

Bonnie Lou Lewis didna t like to stay in one place long, said her eldest son, James Lewis.

Bonnie Lou Lewis didna t like to stay in one place long, said her eldest son, James Lewis.

One day, while sitting on a park bench, author Mark D. Jones, of Gordo, Ala., was asked by an old man, 'Why do you do what you do? Why do you work where you work?' Jones says he immediately realized that what seemed like a nonchalant question really yielded a much deeper soul-searching probe.

An Alabama man June 9 was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter charges in the Pickens County, Ala., Circuit Court.

You could easily describe Michael Long as the all-American boy. "He wants to grow up and be a pro bass fisherman," Michael's father, Harold Long recalls.

"I'm just so relieved and overwhelmed that it's over," third engineer John Cronan said Thursday after arriving at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland on an overnight flight from Mombasa, Kenya.

A Maersk shipping official says the American captain that U.S. Navy snipers rescued from Somali pirates will reunite with his crew Wednesday in the Kenyan port of Mombasa.