Pleasant Grove News

Financial scandals over the last year helped spark our recession and damage public trust in business.

J.B. Ross isn't an animal expert. But the 76-year-old farmer from the Pleasant Grove area knows what he saw on the afternoon of June 4. At the time, he was raking hay at Cal Jeffries Farms on Pleasant Grove School Road when he claims he saw a female lion walking in the middle of the 175-acre farm plush with woods.

Anna Hall holds partner Hailey Abney in a wheelbarrow race against Noah Beam and his partner, Robert Sprayberry, during Field Day at PGES.

A schoolteacher in Jefferson County is the biggest loser, but it's a good thing.

Michael Cooper, a junior at Pleasant Grove High School, won grand champion at the UVU State Technology Fair on May 5 for his custom executive desk.

A woman on a two-week vacation from her job at the Bainbridge post office is the subject of a Grady County search that began Tuesday.

Construction will resume next week on the gymnasium that collapsed earlier this month at Pleasant Grove High School, construction officials say.

Pleasant Grove kindergartner Madison Ethridge demonstrates how an iPod can be used in the classroom.

The Pleasant Grove Library's book festival, full of books and more books, was an enjoyable Friday evening for guests and authors to get acquainted, and for families to find just the right books to add to their own bookshelves.

Funeral services for Fred Richard Armstrong, 85, of Cullman will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 1, 2009, at Mt.

A multi-city narcotics unit raided an Adamsville business on Thursday afternoon, confiscating drugs and arresting one person.

David Green, founder of Hobby Lobby, will be the featured speaker at the Scott Dawson Evangelistic Association luncheon on March 24 at 11:30 a.m. The luncheon will be at The Club.

The University of Montevallo baseball team received word of two honors Wednesday, receiving its first national ranking and first Gulf South Conference Pitcher of the Week honor this season.

A 50-year-old Birmingham woman pushing a shopping cart along Pleasant Grove Road Wednesday night was struck by a car and died this morning at UAB Hospital, according to authorities.

UPDATE 12:15 pm: It looks like 33/40 may have jumped the gun. No info has been posted on their web site about Bolton, and since the information has not reached any other media, I'm becoming more and more ...

Submitted photo Kevin Sutton, Gregory Payne, and Ethan Hodde, members of the Pleasant Grove High School Band, were recently selected as members of the 2009 Association of Texas Small School Bands All-State ...

In the back of Pleasant Grove Elementary School there's a brand new, brightly colored jungle gym, heaps of dirt and a dump truck - phase one of project playground is nearly complete.

A former supervisory operations clerk at the Department of Veterans Affairs' Pittsburgh HealthCare System in Oakland pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of theft of government property.

Submitted photo The Pleasant Grove Education Foundation recently delivered more than $15,000 in grants to various teachers throughout the district.

The Limestone County teenager who lost his mother in a house fire said from his hospital bed Wednesday he is trying to get better.