Livingston News

Published: Monday, December 21, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 11:43 p.m. University of West Alabama The University of West Alabama hosts a Kansas City Barbeque Society sanctioned barbecue judging class Saturday, Feb.

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Allen Pettus of Montgomery, Alabama announce the engagement of their daughter, Lauren Britney Pettus of Montgomery, Alabama to Richard Vaughn Harrell, III of Hayneville, Alabama son of Mr.

Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 11:32 p.m. LIVINGSTON The University of West Alabama is considering adding academic programs in the face of declining state money, but university leaders say any additions would bring in more students - and their tuitions.

LIVINGSTON - An investigator with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation testified that he believes a fatal shooting by former York Police Chief David Rowry was a crime.

Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 11:33 p.m. LIVINGSTON Witnesses in the manslaughter trial of ex-York Police Chief David Rowry agree that 52-year-old Joe Louis Bell was shot with a single bullet fired from Rowry's service weapon.

A New York City gallery has auctioned over 200 rare postage stamps to raise $3.2 million for the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. In this undated photo released by Spink Shreves Galleries, Civil War-era envelope postmarked November 15, 1861 with a Confederate Postmaster's blue 5 cent Livingston, Alabama "provisional" postage ...

Published: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 8:23 p.m. FRIDAY ARTS in the Hunt Annex Studio Theatre on the University of West Alabama campus, Livingston.

The 177-year-old Lakewood House in Livingston, Ala. has been inhabited by the same family for seven generations, and for as long as they've been keeping track, it's been inhabited by the same ghost as well.A The house, built in 1832, looked like the poster image of a haunted antebellum home on the night of Oct.

Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 11:27 p.m. TUSCALOOSA The late, or at least lost, Ed Flesh can't know his impact on generations of University of Alabama artists.

Kelly Ann Findley and Joseph Andrew Whitehead, III were united in Holy Matrimony, Saturday, October 17, 2009 at Church in the Pines, Lake Martin, Alabama.

17. The crosses will be located between Mile Markers 21 and 22 on U.S. Highway 11 north of Livingston.

STARKVILLE a ' Mississippi State University's Bagley College of Engineering is forming an interstate partnership to enable some students at the University of West Alabama to also earn an MSU engineering degree.

Ms. Karen Stockbridge and Mr. Michael Bartlett of Gulfport, Miss., announce the engagement of their daughter, Amber Jeanne Bartlett to Kellen Bures Cole, son of Mr.

Ms. Karen Stockbridge and Mr. Michael Bartlett of Gulfport, Miss., announce the engagement of their daughter, Amber Jeanne Bartlett to Kellen Bures Cole, son of Mr.

The sponsoring program, called a oeBlack Belt 100 Lenses,a began two years ago as a partnership between the Center for Community-Based Partnerships at the University of Alabama and the Black Belt Community Foundation.

The Wall Street Journal ran a feature yesterday about the Paradise Valley farmhouse of writer Jim Harrison, which he and his wife purchased "for about $425,000 seven years ago." Alexandra Alter writes that the valley near Livingston is packed with writers--"novelists Thomas McGuane and Walter Kirn and science writer David Quammen live in the area." ...

Following at least three years of obstacles, work has started on a new Sumter County High School.

By Rick Pedone Staff Writer A purse of more than $50,000 is at stake today and Sunday for cowboys and cowgirls competing at the 123rd Silver Spurs Rodeo at Osceola Heritage Park.

Summer is here. Let the mission trips begin. Many churches in east Montgomery are preparing for mission trips across the U.S. and abroad.

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