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Gathered around McGee and Abby, children listened to a Christmas story called "Nighty Night, Baby Jesus" with these furry friends at the Y.M.C.A. of Selma-Dallas County on Tuesday.

From left in foreground, Autauga Christmas Team members Abner and Bill Straughan separate chickens for food packages, while Brittany Straughan, Linda Moore and Rocella Carlysle work in background.

A Tennessee teenager was killed early this morning in a crash on Interstate 65 in Autauga County, Alabama State Troopers report.

For their outstanding leadership with the Air Force Junior ROTC program at Selma High School, schools Superintendent Dr.

The Luverne and Brantley Garden Clubs were recently honored as host chapters for the Garden Club of Alabamaa s 70th Annual Meeting for District VI.

There was only one problem with the Autauga County Improvement Association's most recent project.

26 who were in the process of preparing almost 4 pounds of marijuana for distribution.

Alabama recently became the last of the 50 states to enact a law allowing pet owners to vaccinate their dogs and cats for rabies every three years rather than an annual shot.

The 136th Session of the Alabama Police Academy stood one last time as a class Friday morning when the officers took their oaths.

SELMA -- A decorated combat veteran of Vietnam lashed out Wednesday at an Army offi cer accused of going on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas last week.

Veterans and supporters from the area celebrated Veterans Day, also known as Armistice or Remembrance Day, at its traditional time of the 11th month, on the 11th day and at the 11th hour, at Memorial Stadium.

" "For God and Country is the motto of the national American Legion organization founded in 1919, and Selma's Thomas R. Mackin Post 20 has the honor once again of sponsoring this year's Veterans Day celebration that will take place at Memorial Stadium on Monday at 11 a.m. We urge you to come early in the company of family and friends to enjoy the ...

Peeping through my Venetian blind, I simply stood, breathless at the beauty of an October Indian summer with its clear, blue ocean of a sky and its white ships of clouds.

SELMA -- Nationally known storytellers, basket weavers, jewelry makers and cotton candy will vie for the public's attention during a two-day festival in Selma on Friday and Saturday.

'Search and rescue! Anyone in here? If you can, come to the sound of my voice.' 'I can't. I'm trapped!' 'OK, we'll come to you!' It was only a drill, but mem bers of a Community Emergen cy Response Teams, or CERT, carried out their duties at a mock apartment collapse site Wednesday as if they were deal ing with a real crisis.

SELMA -- After making history as Selma's first black firefighter and, later, chief of the department, the last thing Henry Allen expected was to become history as he neared retirement.

Linebacker Dont'a Hightower was an immediate standout from Alabama's 2008 signing class.

A consultant helping Alabama's two-year college system hire a new chancellor has recommended seven people for the position, left vacant when former Chancellor Bradley Byrne resigned to run for governor.

The Autauga County Chapter of University of Alabama Fans is having its fall 'Bama Blast on Oct.

When Michael Barlow leaves prison he will be 80 years old. Barlow, 45, was sentenced Tuesday in Circuit Judge Jack Meigs' courtroom.