Redstone Arsenal News

Congressman Parker Griffith announced today the U.S. House of Representatives has approved the Omnibus Appropriations bill.

A key spending bill that goes before the full Congress this week includes almost $90 million directly for Redstone Arsenal and Marshall Space Flight Center projects - including work on lunar landers and FBI explosive disposal research.

A former high-level official with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville has been sentenced to federal prison for taking $1.6 million in bribes.

Retired NAVY SEAL commando Zack Vaughn speaks at a special memorial service Monday held at the FBI Hazardous Devices School to honor fallen bomb technicians.

Ronnie Chronister, second from left, is shown with some of the more than 200 Athens High School students who attended his career talk in November at AHS.

Dawn Hilliard's voice catches, her eyes redden and well with tears and her shoulders sag at the thought of closing the doors to Bill's Florist, a business that has anchored the landscape on Hermitage Drive near Braly Stadium in Florence for more than 70 years.

Madison County School leaders renewed their call Tuesday for a half-cent sales tax increase to build more schools.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., The Boeing Company [ NYSE: BA ] and the U.S. Army successfully completed a test in September in which a laser system mounted on an Avenger combat vehicle destroyed 50 improvised explosive devices similar to those used by adversaries in war zones.

After the Army nixed the Patriot Parkway from crossing Redstone Arsenal, city planners went to work to find an alternative route.

A Boeing-developed laser system destroyed 50 improvised explosive devices in a recent test on Redstone Arsenal.

If you do nothing else but stuff yourself with Thanksgiving leftovers this weekend, buy a card for one of our soldiers serving away from home this Christmas.

Candidate concerns! Republican Bill Johnson is speaking out by telling WHNT NEWS 19 he and his family have been the target of threats in recent months.

While many of you got to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with your families, hundreds of soldiers stationed at Redstone Arsenal were unable to make it home.

We are continuing to follow a story we first told you about Wednesday here on WAAY 31.

Heavily reliant on aerospace and defense, Huntsville looks to biotech and other industries for new growth.

Peoples Tires salutes the troops in Alabama Ray Buchmann is supporting the troops with free services.

The Rocket City has a ranking many may not be so happy about. According to a recent survey by NeighborhoodScout says that the Patton Road area near Huntsville's Redstone Arsenal ranks number 2 as one of the most dangerous military neighborhoods.

A pair of projects on Redstone Arsenal are included in the fiscal year 2010 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, U.S. Sen.

Hillsboro resident John Howard is almost certain he would be homeless or in jail if he had not lived at the Alabama Sheriffsa Youth Ranch in Danville.

Tamara Underwood, a tech operator at Continental Automotive Systems, finished her shift at 6:30 this morning, but stayed on at the plant until 10 to check out job opportunities with local employers at Continental's education and career fair.