Jackson News

Jury selection is scheduled to begin July 20 in Lauderdale County in the trial of a former Clements High School teacher on charges of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse, records show.

In a June 27 story about a complaint against companies accused of making misleading robocalls to sell vehicle warranties, The Associated Press, relying on a news release from the Mississippi Public Service Commission, erroneously identified one of the companies.

Most fathers in the River Re gion marveled over ties, shirts and various other presents they were given by their children as they enjoyed a pleasant and nor mal Father's Day last Sunday.

Circuit Court Judge Ed Jackson handed down a 20-year sentence Tuesday for a Dothan man who pleaded guilty to trafficking marijuana.

The Limestone County Commission will consider making June 27 Amateur Radio Day in the county.

Aug. 13 -- Detectives investigating the case against Anthony Hopkins spoke in court Wednesday about information they gathered.

A former Prichard municipal judge was carjacked Tuesday night as she arrived at her west Mobile home, the judge told the Press-Register. Frankie Fields Smith, 71, a practicing attorney who served as Prichard municipal judge from 1975 to 1986, said she was unharmed other than a small cut on one of her fingers.

Hundreds of people from the River Region are expected to flock to BamaJam, a three-day music festival in Enterprise that starts Thursday.

The Centennial Hill neighborhood, located near downtown Montgomery, was home to many of the key players in the civil rights movement.

Two attempted murder suspects arrested Friday went before a judge for a bond hearing Wednesday afternoon.

While summer doesn't officially start for another month, the summer music season gets underway next weekend, with a summer jam in Zinn Park, Jaxfest II and the first concert of the Music at McClellan series.

Christi Chesnut of Oxford was presented the Wax Company Scholarship during the recent 66th Annual Alabama Cattlemen's Association Convention and Trade Show.

Land losses by black families is a main focus of a Civil and Human Rights Convention sponsored by the Alabama NAACP beginning today in Mobile.

Charles Kilpatrick, left, and Donny Stanford check the elevation and level on gravestones as they reinstall them in the Hobbs family plot in Athens City Cemetery.

A 20-year-old Jackson man died and two women were injured in a one-vehicle wreck Tuesday on Clarke County 29, according to state troopers.

A Washington County man has been charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of his friend, authorities said today.

THESE STORMS WERE ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM JACKSON TO CHOCTAW BLUFF...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES SOUTH OF GROVE HILL TO 22 MILES SOUTH OF GROVE HILL...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

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A Clarke County man, accused of threatening to kill his wife and himself, led authorities on a 50-mile chase in a tanker truck before surrendering at his job in Theodore.

Our state made news when we had the attorney general of the United States down here.