Muscle Shoals News

Planning to attend the Wailers ' Nov. 12 concert at Birmingham's Alys Stephens Center ? Then you'll want to be aware of the reggae band's local connection.

As co-owner of Northside's Shake It Records and its namesake record label, Darren Blase would seem to have all the work he can handle this year.

The Cullman County Commission's lean 2010 fiscal year budget - which includes approximately $300,000 in cuts to sheriff's office expenses - also includes a $12,000 a year raise to the water department manager's salary.

Nikki Kristen Irvin and Frederick Bryan Darley, III were united in Holy Matrimony, Saturday, May 23, 2009 at First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama where The Reverend Doctor Jay Leon Wolf and The Reverend Roland S. Barnes officiated.

The inside of a Muscle Shoals business is basically a pile of ashes. After 14 years in business, a fire destroyed Clement Hill Furniture Outlet.

A furniture store is destroyed after a massive fire Thursday Night. It happened at Clement Hill Furniture off Avalon Avenue in Muscle Shoals.

A late night fire has gutted a furniture store in down town Muscle Shoals. Emergency crews first got the call of a fire at the Clement Hill store on State Street around 8:00 Thursday night.

I've had crap on my mind lately. Some of you might be thinking that it is quite apparent that I have a rather healthy helping of poo for brains and if it were a real medical condition -- cranium crapus I imagine it would be called -- that I'd probably be considered terminal or at the very least on life-support. However, that is not the type of crap ...

Muscle Shoals resident Jamie Brackin maintains 3 beehives he says can help his wife with her severe pollen allergies, but a city ordinance on the books since 1979 prohibits beekeeping within city limits, the TimesDaily of Florence reports.

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.

Published: Monday, October 19, 2009 at 1:53 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 19, 2009 at 1:53 p.m. Temperatures in a few rural areas in North Alabama dipped to freezing or below Monday morning.

The weather may have been a factor in an 18-wheeler crash in Colbert County. The big rig lost control on Highway 43 south of Muscle Shoals.

Although typically among the driest months, September and October have been the wettest months this year in North Alabama.

The tough economic times have left a lot of people out of work. Many have decided to go back to school.

One person was found with a gunshot wound Tuesday morning on Wildwood Street in Muscle Shoals in Colbert County.

Serious transportation talks took place on Tuesday in the Shoals. Local leaders met with U.S. Representative Parker Griffith to discuss the concerns they have about what's happening now and what will happen in the future.

Police are investigating a shooting in Muscle Shoals. It happened at 1902 Wildwood Street.

Here's some of your favorite restaurants stood up to inspector's scrutiny. Madison County: Liberty 2000 on Highway 231/431 north in Meridianville- 83 Tate Farms on Moore's Mill road in Meridianville- 98 New Hope BBQ on Peter Lane in New hope- 98 Colbert County: East Colbert Church of Christ River Road in Muscle Shoals- 100.

For Bill Taylor , a dropped cell phone call provided a turning point. The new head of the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama was on his way back from Anniston, when an official from a major company called to say the firm was looking to set up an operation in Alabama.

Rain-weary North Alabamians shouldna t expect relief until El Nino ends after winter 2010, said Chelly Amin, meteorologist with the National Weather Service.