Woodland News

As country music swung back toward traditional styles in the 1980s, an inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard rose to the top of the business and notched hit after barroom hit.

Investigators believed the 14-year-old youngster started the fight. He was not identified because of his age.

As country music swung back toward traditional styles in the 1980s, an inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard rose to the top of the business and notched hit after barroom hit.

His grandmother told him the story when he was 9. Johnny Rollins, 49, of Heflin, still remembers.

A convicted drug trafficker from Alabama was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Leura G. Canary announced.

Cullman Regional Medical Center will purchase Woodland Medical Center on July 15 and close it, affecting 150 jobs.

One of Country Music's Greatest Singers, His Hits Include "Set 'Em Up Joe" and "Chiseled in Stone" April 29, 2009; Written by Calvin Gilbert Vern Gosdin Singer-songwriter Vern Gosdin , who achieved mainstream country success in the '80s with hits such as "Set 'Em Up Joe" and "Chiseled in Stone," died late Tuesday at a Nashville hospital at age 74.