Northport News

Alabama's tourism authorities have flipped March Madness into a food fight, pitting many of the Yellowhammer State's revered barbecue purveyors against one another in an online popularity contest.

The local band Bible Study, above, will perform at Kentuck Art Night in downtown Northport tonight at 5-8 p.m. Tonight's Art Night is jam-packed on its own, but the coming weekend, days and months ahead this spring offer so much of what makes Tuscaloosa and Northport such a vibrant culture.

Wilkins was indicted on 68 counts, including 18 counts of attempted murder, in a mass shooting in July 2012.

The Alabama National Guard says two groups out of Haleyville and one out of Montgomery have been called to active duty in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

A grand jury in Tuscaloosa County indicted a 37-year-old Northport woman for cruelty to animals after a neighbor found three dead puppies locked in a crate with no access to food or water.

A woman is now charged with attempted murder for a shootout that left another woman hospitalized.

An unidentified woman was shot multiple times Friday at the Northgate Apartments in Northport.

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Keith Hindman of Northport are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Bethany Hindman to Brandon John Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Thomas of Decatur.

Over the last month, 20 people have been arrested for allegedly making meth. In one case, drug agents got a tip from neighbors that four people were cooking meth in the 6000 block of 5th Street in Northport.

From left to right, Jamie Kay Watkins, Daniel J.Watkins, Dustin Allen White and Ashley Nicolette Sharp were all arrested Friday afternoon and charged with manufacturing methamphetamine from a lab the kitchen of a home in Northport.