Monroeville News

A 30-year-old Beatrice man, charged with capital murder, remained in the Monroe County Detention Facility without bail Tuesday after an 81-year-old man was found dead with a gunshot wound to the back of the head.

In 1966, Truman Capote recorded the narration for the television adaptation of "A Christmas Memory" that appeared on the weekly series "ABC Stage 67." It's fruitcake weather in Monroeville.

ThyssenKrupp Steel USA and ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA will hold a job fair Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Wilcox Central High School in Camden, Ala., the steelmaker said.

Fruitcake's just a big joke -- until you taste a good one. No, really. Fruitcake mak er extraordinaire Aubret H. White of Autauga County coaxed me into sampling his fruitcake just before Christ mas of 2008, and I was pleas antly surprised with the de licious blend of fruit and nuts.

Dallas Voice :: Sweet homo Alabama : "In tiny Monroeville, Ala. , Sandy Smith, executive director of the towna s Chamber of Commerce, wears a Truman Capote T-shirt. She stands proudly in a section of the towna s museum dedicated to the gay author who spent his early childhood there.

PASA hosts a traveling theatrical version of To Kill a Mockingbird Sunday at the Heymann Performing Arts Center while Lafayette reads the best-selling novel by Harper Lee as part of Acadiana's 'Big Read.' To glimpse into the history of the Pulitzer Prize-winning tale and its legendary author, travel to Monroeville, Ala., where you can enter the ...

Harper Lee grew up with Truman Capote in small-town Alabama and wrote the bestselling novel of the 20th century.

A cold front will move through the area bringing cooler and less humid air to the region beginning tonight and continuing through Thursday.

Hundreds of people with widely varying job skills filed into the Cooper Center at Alabama Southern Community College on Tuesday, each hoping for a shot to work at the 1,400-employee ThyssenKrupp Steel and Stainless plants in Calvert.

Sept. 22- Much of Monroe County was built with wood, the lumber industry. So when the housing market went sour, many companies had to shut their doors.

Sept. 21 - Thyssenkrupp Steel Mill is hosting job fairs in two southwest Alabama communities hit hard by job loss and plant closures.

Aug. 7 - A Monroeville woman is accused of shooting her brother in the face. Monroe County Sheriff's deputies say Carolyn Hutcherson shot her brother, Daniel Hutcherson, at their parents' home Wednesday.

Bernard J. Brookhyser, 68, Monroeville, Ala., formerly of Athens and Montgomery, Ala., passed away Saturday, July 11, 2009, at his home in Monroeville due to complications of a short illness and a fall.

Bernard J. Brookhyser, 68, Monroeville, Ala., formerly of Athens and Montgomery, Ala., passed away Saturday, July 11, 2009, at his home in Monroeville due to complications of a short illness and a fall.

Writer. Born Truman Streckfus Persons on September 30, 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Mr. and Mrs. Billy Joe Bradley, Jr. of Troy, Alabama and Mr. William DuBrutz Ulmer of Monroeville, Alabama announce the engagement of their daughter, Anna Claire Ulmer of Demopolis, Alabama to Robert Chadwick Morriss, son of Mr.

A car and a log truck collided on Ala. 41 north of Monroeville this afternoon, killing two people, Alabama State Troopers said.

Dr. Michael Simmons, 44, gave an informative seminar concerning urology during the weekly Scottsboro Rotary Club meeting Wednesday at Western Sizzlin restaurant.

A 19-year-old Monroeville man died early this morning in a wreck along Coon Trail Road, according to State Troopers.

June 24 - Residents of Monroeville might have to start thinking twice before the light up cigarettes in city parks.