Leighton News

Authorities have arrested a Colbert County man they say took more than $30,000 in merchandise from a Lawrence County auction house.

Drivers on Alabama 33 in Lawrence County should be on the lookout for an increase in deer along the highway.

Members of the LaGrange Living Historical Association invite Shoals citizens to kick off the holiday season by attending the annual celebration, 'Christmas in the Country,' which is scheduled for the weekend of November 20-22 at LaGrange College Site and Pioneer Park.

A fire gutted a mobile home in Colbert County on Monday morning. Just after 8:30 a.m., the Leighton Fire Department, assisted by the Muscle Shoals Fire Department, arrived to find it engulfed in large flames and thick smoke.

LEIGHTON, AL Emergency officials in the Shoals are keeping a close eye on several rural roads.

Courtland, Leighton and Town Creek in north Alabama could end up with as much as $800,000 each if the proposed sale of the Lawrence Colbert Gas District goes through as planned, according to a report by The TimesDaily.

LEIGHTON, AL A Colbert County man says he was attacked for no reason by two officers from the Leighton Police Department.

A mobile home fire in the Shoals is under investigation. This come to WAFF 48 News from out news partners, The Shoals Insider.

After more than a year and a half of spreading human waste as fertilizer in Northwest Alabama, Synagro Technologies has shut down.

It's been seven months since Harry Ricks was shot and killed during a home invasion.

A Colbert County man has been arrested for firing a gun in downtown Leighton. The gun and ammunition he used was very powerful.

The driver of a tractor trailer involved in a collision with a train Wednesday afternoon has been released from the hospital.

LEIGHTON, AL A train wreck Wednesday in the Shoals has highlighted rural railroad crossings.

A train and an 18-wheeler collided in Colbert County late Wednesday afternoon. The incident occurred on Old Alabama Highway 20 just outside of Leighton about 3 p.m., when investigators said the truck hit a diesel tank on the train.

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