Colbert County News

Here's a look at the high and low scores in this week's WAFF 48 Restaurant Scorecard report.

Shoals This Week Seasoned Veteran is Grand Marshall By: Richard Sheridan Published: 11-04-2009 World War II veteran Edward P. Hodge will serve as Grand Marshal of the 13th Annual Veterans Day Parade in Tuscumbia at 11am on Wednesday, November 11.

Three north Alabama county health departments still have some H1N1 vaccine. That vaccine will be given out at the Lauderdale and Colbert County clinics Wednesday and at the Franklin County Health Department Thursday.

After Wednesday's first series of swine flu vaccine clinics ended with left over shots, Franklin, Madison, Lauderdale and Colbert Counties have announced they'll hold a second day of vaccinations Thursday.

The speed limit in Zip City is a modest 45 mph. Burnout has a volunteer fire department.

In the Shoals, going smoke-free is the new trend. Recently, the city of Florence started a smoking ban for restaurants and parks.

BIRMINGHAM - The federal Environmental Protection Agency has fined a Shelby County developer and a Colbert County public utility as part of a crackdown on smaller polluters.

A fire gutted a mobile home in Colbert County on Monday morning. Just after 8:30 a.m., the Leighton Fire Department, assisted by the Muscle Shoals Fire Department, arrived to find it engulfed in large flames and thick smoke.

Crews are still cleaning up in the aftermath of severe storms that swept across North Alabama.

One person was found with a gunshot wound Tuesday morning on Wildwood Street in Muscle Shoals in Colbert County.

LEIGHTON, AL Emergency officials in the Shoals are keeping a close eye on several rural roads.

The weather may have been a factor in an 18-wheeler crash in Colbert County. The big rig lost control on Highway 43 south of Muscle Shoals.

Here's some of your favorite restaurants stood up to inspector's scrutiny. Madison County: Liberty 2000 on Highway 231/431 north in Meridianville- 83 Tate Farms on Moore's Mill road in Meridianville- 98 New Hope BBQ on Peter Lane in New hope- 98 Colbert County: East Colbert Church of Christ River Road in Muscle Shoals- 100.

Attorney General Troy King has asked judges in five counties to throw out what he says are meritless suits brought by the district attorneys in the counties.

Alabama's haunted history comes to life in October with ghost trails, storytelling festivals, haunted trolley rides and ghost walks through historical neighborhoods.

The animals at the Colbert County Animal Shelter are sleeping a lot better tonight thanks to the hard work of volunteers.

It's going to be a nice week for eating out. Here's a rundown of this week's high and low scores from around the Valley.

It's taken more than five years for disabled veterans in the Shoals to get a new van that will transport them to the V.A. hospital in Birmingham.

LITTLEVILLE, AL If it was not for the keen eyes of a state trooper, 20-year-old Jessica Pace of Tuscumbia, may have never been found.

FLORENCE, AL Wet weather is still in the forecast for most of the Shoals this weekend.