Uniontown News

The sign going on the front door at the Perry County courthouse reads: "Closed for the Obama Holiday." The rural, mostly black county has proclaimed Monday as an official holiday celebrating the election of the nation's first black president, Barack Obama.

Sports Director Brad Radice catches a fish! UNIONTOWN, Ala. a ' A small group of business owners and public officials in central Alabama are hoping to make the state's Black Belt region a top spot nationally for hunting and fishing.

In 1888, the Fairhope Benevolent Society was formed to help poor African-Americans with funeral costs.

A standing-room crowd turned out to hear about plans for dumping millions of tons of Tennessee coal ash in a landfill located in a poor Alabama county.

Controversial Coal Ash Meeting Not in my backyard! That's what many folks in Uniontown are saying about Tennessee coal ash being dumped in Perry County.

Here's the lede to the next paragraph: "As George Akerlof and I argue in our book, 'Animal Spirits,' ..." I get it.

" A 16 year-old Uniontown resident is facing a felony charge in Dallas County and possibly two more in two different counties after one free-for-all night through four counties.

Residents said they feared equipment failure, flooding, tornadoes or lack of oversight at the landfill, where the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, whose notably lax regulation of coal ash permits most landfills to use it as a cover material for other waste, will be responsible for enforcement.

Every day for the rest of the year, a long train will travel through Birmingham on its way from a power plant in Tennessee to a landfill in Uniontown, Alabama.

Every day for the rest of the year, a long train will travel through Birmingham on its way from a power plant in Tennessee to a landfill in Uniontown, Alabama.

One man was arrested Tuesday night in Faunsdale, and authorities are seeking more suspects following a shooting incident in Uniontown.

One man was arrested Tuesday night in Faunsdale, and authorities are seeking more suspects following a shooting incident in Uniontown.

One man was arrested Tuesday night in Faunsdale, and authorities are seeking more suspects following a shooting incident in Uniontown.

Uniontown, Alabama is the new home for the fly ash from the December 2008 spill at TVA's Kingston plant.

TVA is in the process of sending roughly 3 million tons of coal fly ash to Arrowhead Landfill in Uniontown, Alabama.

UNIONTOWN, Ala. - Two-lane roads lined with weeds and trees seem to stretch forever in Perry County, where thousands of residents are poor even by Alabama standards and they don't produce much for the outside world besides timber and catfish.

Tennesseans were up in arms a few months ago when more than 5 million cubic yards of coal ash poured through a breach in an earthen dam and damaged homes in the community of Harriman.

In Uniontown there is a cloud of uncertainty over the shipment of coal ash to the Arrowhead Landfill a few miles away.

Officials are wondering how to cover the bills four Alabama fugitives are running up for Stark County .

Thes undated photos released by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows 22-year-old Ashton Kenny Chase Mink, right, and 26-year-old Joshua Loyd Southwick.