Ralph News

Did you see the latest CNN-Opinion Research poll? Yup, there's Ralph Nader and homeboy Matt Gonzalez at 6 percent.

REGINALD MURRAY Age: 49 Residence: 14786 Wood Creek Lane, Ralph Personal: masonry contractor and pastor of Zion Hill AME Zions Church, Fosters; married with three children, one grandchild Party: Democrat ...

“You're just trying to stall this project”

The Tuscaloosa County Commission on Wednesday voted 3 to 1 to seize land needed for a new road between Coker and the site of a new county school in the Romulus community. via Tuscaloosa News

“I'd rather sell my goats to someone who's starting a herd than someone who's just going to take them to slaughter.”

Ralph Stutts feeds his goats Thursday at his Tuscaloosa farm. Stutts purchased his first three goats four years ago. via Tuscaloosa News

Arrests SATURDAY Fredrick Dennis Brown, 32, 16400 block of Field Road, Ralph, was charged with first-degree marijuana possession. via Tuscaloosa News

Arrests Friday Jacqueline Blair Jones, 43, 3200 block of 22nd Street, was charged with first-degree theft. via Tuscaloosa News

Candice Shimelle Horton, 22, 1800 block of Copperas Creek Cross, Centerville, was charged with first-degree marijuana possession and unlawful possession of a controlled substance. via Tuscaloosa News

Arrests friday Nicholas Lambert, 28, 17600 block of Old Ferry Lane, Ralph, was charged with shooting into an occupied vehicle and building. via Tuscaloosa News

“This group could possibly be responsible for several hundred checks”

A counterfeiting scheme that was dismantled in Tuscaloosa could mean hundreds of fake checks are circulating in the county, police said. via Alabama Live

“I still wish I had one and could plow a furrow or two”

Ross Walker, left, is handed a plaque by Wayne Ford, Farm-City Week chairman, after being named the 2007 Farmer of the Year on Monday at the Tuscaloosa Kiwanis Club Farm-City Week Banquet. via Tuscaloosa News

“I drove by to get to the [fire] station and the shop was already fully involved”

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“There were shotgun shells going off left and right.”

Surrounded by friends and neighbors, the Booth family watched their home burn to the ground this morning in Romulus. via Dateline Alabama

Ralph, a furry orange cat who lived with us for 111 2 years, left the planet yesterday. via Jack Bog's Blog

''You Can't Get There from Here: Alabama Maps and Travel'' ''ArchiTreats: Food for Thought'' features Nancy M. Rohr. via Montgomery Advertiser

“It was a wooden lap-board structure composed of three rooms”

But if you have the right tour guide and look closely - through the trees and along some seemingly deserted dirt roads - the 80-year-old remains of a once vibrant, self-contained town begin to reveal ... via Dateline Alabama

GORDO Some time in the late 1960s, Ralph Elmore had "a vision," says John Mitchell, an elder at the Fellowship of Jesus Christ Church near Gordo. via Dateline Alabama