Bibb County News

Beth Maynor Young, who first photographed the Cahaba lily 20 years ago, lines up her shot of the flowers during a recent return visit to the Cahaba River.

Macon-Bibb Planning and Zoning holding their regular meeting this Monday. On the agenda was a request by Dunwoody and Sams Trust for a rehearing on their 70 acre site in north Bibb County.

Like the 18 previous years, the 19th annual Spirit of the Cahaba Canoe Regatta offered new experiences along its 28-mile length of the Cahaba River through Bibb and Perry counties.

Some 30 towns across Alabama are participating in Saturday walking tours throughout June.

A new hotel has opened on Arkwright Road in north Bibb County. The 79-room Country Inn & Suites by Carlson has opened at 3915 Arkwright Road, behind Logan's Roadhouse.

The seat is currently held by Cam Ward , who will run for Hank Erwina s Alabama Senate seat in 2010.

Alabaster City Council President Jim McClain has announced he will seek the Republican nomination for the Alabama House of Representatives District 49 seat.

An 18-year-old Bibb County volunteer firefighter has been arrested in connection with an arson.

After an extremely active day on Wednesday, the radar is much quieter today, and the majority of the viewing area will be rainfree tonight.

Old Union Baptist Church Pastor Clark Thompson, left, and Cahaba Valley Baptist Church Pastor Stanley Dawson plunge Tyler Clark deep into the river.

The superintendent of the Bibb County school system was back in the hospital Friday, to be treated for complications in an attack that took place at his home.

Bibb County School Superintendent Dr. Don Elam told police the husband confronted him at his home when his wife's contract wasn't renewed as an elementary school principal.

The superintendent of the Bibb County school system was assaulted at his home Wednesday afternoon by the husband of a school employee who had been demoted, the sheriff said tonight.

It was around eleven o'clock Monday morning when divers located the 13 year old boys body.

Tuscaloosa and Bibb County divers pulled the body of a 13-year old teenager from the Cahaba River Monday morning.

The body of a 13-year-old boy who apparently drowned in the Cahaba River while on a weekend trip has been recovered.

A 13-year-old who drowned in Alabama's Cahaba River has been identified by the Bibb County Coroner as Camenron Knowles.

The town of Rockford got a little rocked early Tuesday morning, and Ruby Self felt every bit of it while lying in bed, all 5 seconds of a rumble she knew could not have come from an airliner.

An elderly, bed-ridden woman was airlifted to UAB Hospital in Birmingham following a house fire late Friday afternoon.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala - After the second earthquake in Alabama in as many days, many people in Bibb County are wondering 'what is going on?' UAB geologist Scott Brande says earthquakes often happen in close succession to each other as the rock beneath the earth's surface continues to settle.