West Point News

A traffic stop in Cullman County brought deputies to 61 pounds of marijuana. Agents stopped a truck on Highway 157 in West Point Tuesday night.

The Vinemont, Anon and West Point Water Authority has signed on to join the City of Cullman's Duck River Dam project, leaving Cullman County as the sole major customer yet to sign a new contract.

County commissioner Wayne Willingham addressed West Point's town council Monday evening regarding the county's proposed Smith Lake water project.

Although it was a little warm for Christmas, it was a perfectly glorious fall day Saturday as downtown Cullman filled with folks who came to give the holiday season an early start.

Sitting, from left, Junior Heaton, superintendent for the city of Cullman Water Department, Escol Duke, Chairman of the Walter Water Authority, Leon Creel, Chairman of the East Cullman Water Authority and C.J. Burney, Chairman of the JohnsonA A A s Crossing Water Authority, sign contracts to join the cityA A A s Duck River Dam reservoir project ...

West Point's town council held a special meeting Thursday evening to address residents' concerns over the sanitary sewer system.

Alabama death row inmate Max Payne was executed by lethal injection Thursday for the 1992 kidnapping, robbery and killing of Cullman store owner Braxton Brown.

The West Point town council passed its 2009-2010 income and expense budget at a special meeting recently.

Preparations are under way for the Thursday execution of a Cullman man convicted in 1994 of kidnapping and murdering a local businessman.

If elected to the Alabama House of Representatives, Mac Buttram plans to make education his top priority.

Cullman High School's Jordan Johnson, left, is presented her crown by 2008 winner Audrey Quick Tuesday night after it was announced Johnson was the 2009 Miss Cullman County Fair.

Cullman County Sheriffs investigators say she disappeared sometime between August 8th, and the 25th, when a missing persons report was filed.

Without a recent grant from the Alabama Forestry Commission, Dodge City fire chief Barry Walling said it would be a lot harder to stay up-to-date with forest fire equipment.

The town of West Point is hoping for a safer drive through the town and wants the state to lower the speed limit.

Cullman County narcotics agents allegedly found a local man making meth Monday while they were serving him with a warrant for a similar crime.

Robert Marney of Pell City and Doug Adkins with Binkley Construction work on the new Jack's Restaurant in West Point Tuesday morning.

West Point Elementary School first-grade teacher Cynde Roberts, left, paints a post while principal Shireen Coleman holds a paint tray.

The Alabama Attorney General's Office has asked the Alabama Supreme Court to set an execution date for Death Row inmate Max Landon Payne, who was convicted of robbing and abducting a Cullman County store owner and killing him with two shotgun blasts to the face.