Cherokee County News

Coty Blanchard, quarterback from Centre-Cherokee County, Ala., made a decision during the summer to commit to Mississippi State to play baseball.

SELMA - The Marine fire team struggled to reach the top of a ridge overlooking a dirt road where Japanese troops were marching down below, unaware of what was going on just above them.

Published: Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 9:03 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 9:04 p.m. CHEROKEE COUNTY - John Pate, a graduate of Sand Rock High School, will be at two area libraries today to sign copies of his new children's book, 'Harvel Goes to the Farm.' Pate will be at the Collinsville Public Library from 1 to 2 p.m. He will be ...

The 2010-2012 AHSAA classifications and football and basketball alignments are out, and it means changes for local high school teams.

Image 1 of 20 KNIGHT OUT: One of the tables at the Oct. 29 Girls Night Out fundraiser was entitled a oeLadies of the Knight.a The table was sponsored by Cherokee Health and Rehab.

Civil trial may end today: Barbara Roberts takes the Fifth during her video testimony in the wrongful death case.

READY TO RIDE: Motorcycle riders listened to last minute instructions from Ride for the Red organizer Chad Steed.

Cherokee County Sheriffa s Investigators Mark Hicks and Bo Jolly have arrested Kristopher James Wise, 40, of Leesburg, on two counts of forgery in the second degree.

Testimony began Monday afternoon in a wrongful death lawsuit concerning the 2006 murder of a Temple-Inland employee.

Published: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:07 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:07 p.m. A Piedmont man has been arrested on sex abuse charges in Cherokee County, according to a news release from Sheriff Jeff Shaver.

Published: Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 10:14 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 10:18 p.m. Volunteers gathered more than 19,000 pills and 167 ounces of liquid medicine Thursday during a 'drug round-up' sponsored by the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program of Etowah and Cherokee counties.

Cherokee County authorities say a man having marital problems with his wife called in an anonymous tip after planting marijuana in his wife's car, the Gadsden Times reported, citing a news release.

A Cherokee County jury on Wednesday, Oct. 21, returned a verdict finding 51-year-old Michael Lynn Lyons of Sand Rock guilty on a drug distribution charge, along with two sentence enhancements for selling drugs near a school and near a housing project.

Published: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 9:46 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 9:48 p.m. A steady, crowded stream of students, teachers, parents and grandparents got to relive history as they moved among dozens of historic exhibits Tuesday morning at Gaston School.

Published: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 7:36 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 7:36 p.m. `I would, but it's raining." "I would, but I need to buy groceries." "I would, but I have to get a haircut." These are just a few examples of the many excuses we - and lots of other people, we suspect - have used when the idea of donating ...

Large amounts of crystal meth, cocaine, oxycontin and heroin along with a small quantity of clonazepam and marijuana, and more than $2,500 in cash were seized in a raid at a home in Cedar Bluff, Ala.

Like a good neighbor, Chris Kuykendall is there. Tuesday, he was sworn in a District 3 commissioner, after being appointed by Governor Bob Riley two weeks ago.

The Alabama Department of Public Health was notified this week about the death of a man in his 50s from Cherokee County, Ala., who tested positive for 2009 H1N1 influenza, also called a oeswine flu.a This brings the total number of deaths of persons with H1N1 influenza in Alabama to 17.

Officials from the Alabama Department of Public Health announced Tuesday that another death due to the H1N1 virus has been confirmed, bringing the statewide total to 17.

Late in the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 9, a motion was filed in a previous election contest case in Cherokee County Circuit Court asking the court to issue an order to require the Cedar Bluff mayor and council to set a date for a run-off election.