Tuscumbia News

A roundup in Colbert County nets 39 arrests. On Friday, eight different law enforcement agencies came together to try and get accused drug dealers and drug users off the streets.

Fifty-year-old Thomas Ray Vernon of Florence, Ala., has been indicted on charges he sexually assaulted a 4-year-old Tuscumbia girl, officials told the TimesDaily of Florence.

"Let the people vote" was the rallying cry during the last legislative session from supporters of electronic bingo.

A northwest Alabama man is in jail minus part of his nose, which police say was bitten off during a robbery attempt.

A man wanted for questioning in the Tuscumbia robbery in which a piece of the robber's nose was bitten off turned himself in Thursday morning to Florence police on outstanding warrants, officials said in a Florence TimesDaily report this morning.

Authorities say an Alabama man will be charged with bank robbery after he recovers from injuries from a fatal crash during a police chase.

A Tuscumbia man was in serious condition at a hospital Wednesday after a wreck, which killed the woman driver.

In Tuscumbia, the search is on for the person who came into a home, fought with the two men who lived there, and stole their money.

Police in Tuscumbia are searching for a man who got the tip of his nose bitten off while stealing about $100 in cash from a home.

11. The Alabama Tourism Department says Birmingham will again hold the nation's oldest Veteran's Day parade.

Shoals This Week Seasoned Veteran is Grand Marshall By: Richard Sheridan Published: 11-04-2009 World War II veteran Edward P. Hodge will serve as Grand Marshal of the 13th Annual Veterans Day Parade in Tuscumbia at 11am on Wednesday, November 11.

Police say a man is in jail after he forced his way into his ex-wife's house, where he is accused of threatening and choking her, then helping her to the couch and offering her a bottled water, the TimesDaily newspaper reports.

A statue honoring Helen Keller, a prominent advocate for the disabled, unveiled at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The bronze statue depicts Keller as a seven-year-old child by a water pump where she first learned to communicate by sign language.

Published: Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 4:52 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 4:52 p.m. Joshua Norris did more than lend a sympathetic ear to a school nurse when she told him about how she and many of her peers bought extra medical supplies out-of pocket.

Folks, we live in a great country. And, I must say, I have never felt more "American" than I did last Wednesday when I sat among some 400 guests in the rotunda of the nation's Capitol in Washington, D.C. It was on this occasion that the Congress of the United States dedicated the statue of Helen Keller and placed it among other great Americans who ...

A Shoals man has been arrested for attempted murder. He is accused of trying to kill a 2-year-old boy.

Serious transportation talks took place on Tuesday in the Shoals. Local leaders met with U.S. Representative Parker Griffith to discuss the concerns they have about what's happening now and what will happen in the future.

Decatur General Hospital, which lost a bid to perform non-emergency cardiac catheterizations in July, is trying again.

One of the first reviews of the new Helen Keller statue came from a blind person, who approached the bronze likeness within seconds of its unveiling in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday morning.

The Jake Hess Memorial Concert will be held on Friday night, October 9, beginning at 7pm at the Muscle Shoals High School Auditorium on Avalon Avenue in Muscle Shoals.