Autauga County News

A Montgomery man remained behind bars here Thursday, a day after he was arrested in connection with the theft of a crippled car left beside Interstate 65 in Autauga County.

ANGELIQUE SUZANNE is the staff photographer for the Progress Weeklies. She can be reached at progressphoto@gmail.com or at 334-365-6739. -- Progress Like my colleagues before me, I, too, have had a difficult time trying to decide in which direction to take my first column.

County Clerk Sally Hand and Administrator-Treasurer Steve Golsan take notes Tuesday as a local construction official explains the scope of the problems discovered at the county's agriculture office complex.

The Internal Revenue Service may owe you money. The IRS is looking for 257 taxpayers in the River Region in order to give rather than to receive.

School officials in Elmore and Autauga counties know they have to get thousands of children to and from their respective county's public schools each day.

PRATTVILLE -- Hobbs, the Autauga County Sheriff's Office drug dog, has one more task before he can officially enjoy retirement -- help train his young whippersnapper replacement.

The Autauga County Heritage Association will have its second annual Low Country Boil from 6 to 10 p.m. Nov.

It took three trips and some help from a citizen to do it, but Autauga County Sheriff's Office deputies finally got their man last week.

PRATTVILLE -- A Prattville man and woman face felony animal cruelty charges after allegedly not giving food or water to a dog over a 10-day period.

PLANTERSVILLE a ' Dallas County has changed gameday for Senior Night to Thursday, when Billingsley will come to Plantersville for the Hornetsa TM last regular-season game.

Prattville Mayor Jim Byard Jr.'s announcement of this year's Spirit of Spinners Award winner didn't catch many people by surprise.

A gallon of regular gas had increased by Tuesday to $2.54 at the newly opened Liberty gas station in Millbrook.

The Autauga County Domestic Violence Coalition will hold a training session on recognizing domestic violence in the workplace.

Checking to see if a butterfly decoration on a pumpkin is real at last year's Spinners Pumpkin Patch, Mason Lafollette touches the tip of the elephant's nose.

The Prattville City Council will not appeal a recent decision by 19th Judicial Circuit Judge John Bush that granted a lounge liquor license to a local business.

Despite the refusal by more than 40 percent of households in the county's unincorporated areas to participate, Autauga County officials say the county's mandatory garbage plan that went into effect a year ago is working.

Three weeks after Secretary of State Beth Chapman dismissed an abuse of power complaint filed against one Autauga County voter registrar, a second complaint was filed against two members of the three-person board of registrars, including the subject of the first filing.

Prattville officials expected that downtown's Heritage Park would be 'pretty in pink' during last Friday's first city-sponsored observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Secretary of State Beth Chapman recently dismissed a complaint filed against Joan Hamburger, a member of the three-person Autauga County Board of Registrars, by a man whose daughter's driving road test was delayed when the registrar's granddaughter was reportedly allowed to bypass an early-morning line that waited outside the testing area.

Helen Mott talks about the empty slab where a Teri Lane brick house used to be, and the overgrown state of the lot on which the former group residence stood.