Selma News

In the wake of deadly tornados that devastated several schools in suburban Oklahoma City, thoughts turn to the safety of children in Selma and Dallas County Schools.

Autauga County Sheriff's Deputies went to a residence off Highway 31 this afternoon to serve a robbery warrant on another man when deputies noticed a suspect later identified as David Hunter jump out of a window and take off running, WSFA is reporting.

Roger Daly's background has taken him from the privileges of a Groton School education to the reality of being shoved into a police cruiser while marching for civil rights.

May 17, 2013 - NCUA on Thursday placed the tiny First Kingdom Community FCU of Selma, Ala., in conservatorship.

He may only be small, but this one-eyed dachshund has a huge amount of love to give to the woman who saved him from certain death.

Today's commencement speaker, Sister Barbara Moore, a civil rights activist. She took part in the famed equality march in Selma Alabama back in the 1960's "I was very much moved by how organized everything was, how serious the situation was and how committed everyone was to nonviolence" In her commencement speech she talked about her roots, what it ... (more)

<![CDATA[SELMA, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama's prison system is getting dozens of new officers, but officials say it's still badly understaffed. The Department of Corrections is holding a graduation ceremony in Selma on Thursday for 70 new correctional officers. It's the first of three corrections classes planned for this year at the Alabama Criminal Justice Training Center. But department spokesman Brian Corbett says the agency loses more than 20 officers a month through attrition, so the new officers only make up for three months of normal turnover. Corbett says the department is staffed at only 60 percent of its authorized personnel levels. Records show state prisons held about 25,300 inmates in January, which was about 150 percent more than their designed capacity.

The Selma Police Department says two people are under arrested and charged with a shooting that happened on April 25, 2013.

Carl Barger lives in Conway, Ark. and until last summer had never visited Autauga County.

MOBILE, Alabama -- The Rev. Stanley M. Deresienski has been appointed pastor of St.

I am a lifelong conservative evangelical Christian, the kind who typically votes Republican and who doesn't have a great history of engaging issues of social justice.

Survivors include a daughter, Stephanie Agee of Youngstown; three sisters, Glenda Marshall of Canton, Mabel Peoples of Sardis, Ala., and Lula Mae Moultire of Selma, Ala.; two brothers, Wade Smith of Sardis, Ala., and Warren Smith of Canton, three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A funeral service will be held at noon Saturday at Jerusalem ... (more)

The annual Battle of Selma reenactment drew dedicated spectators who braved the rain Sunday afternoon to watch Yankees and Rebels meet in one of the last military confrontations of the Civil War.

The Battle of Selma site became living history Thursday as students from as far away as Florida toured an area near one of the last clashes between the blue and the gray 148 years ago.

Rosemarie Smead sees herself as preparing all her life for the step she's about to take.