Geneva County News

The October Geneva County Grand Jury issued a Capital Murder indictment for PATRICK COCHRAN, for the December 23, 1994 murder of sixty-eight year old R.J. McKinsey in Geneva, Alabama.

Hartford police say a 13-year-old girl remains hospitalized after she was injured earlier this week in a bicycle accident on Alabama Highway 52.

Geneva County Sheriff's investigators arrested three men Wednesday on cocaine distribution charges as part of an ongoing undercover investigation called Operation Who's Next.

A manhunt across state lines has resulted in the arrest of a second suspect in the fatal Sunday shooting of Crestview resident Jeffery Brown, 35.

Geneva County Sheriff's investigators recently arrested two Wiregrass men on cocaine distribution charges, including a Hartford man on probation for a drug conviction.

The Merle Wallace Purvis Center near Geneva was a focal point of excitement Wednesday afternoon as a crowd gathered for a grant presentation from the Wiregrass RC&D Council through the Geneva County ARC.

A Florida man died Thursday morning in a single vehicle crash near Slocomb. According to a statement from the Alabama Highway Patrol, Henry Wesley Faulkner, 66, of Miramar, Fla., died after the 2003 Mercury he was driving crashed on Geneva County Road 9 about 3 miles south of Slocomb.

A Geneva County man recently released from prison faces a new felony charge after he was arrested Thursday on cocaine distribution charges.

RANT: For an audit of the Selma City School System that found numerous accounting and procedural deficiencies that raise serious questions about the school system's ability to manage the public's money.

A Geneva County judge recently said the charges filed against a Wiregrass teenager could not be minimized as a childlike prank.

An Army investigation found that soldiers should not have been sent to man traffic stops in a small Alabama town after 11 people were killed in March during a shooting spree.An Army report released to The Associated Press on Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request said the decision to dispatch military police to Samson from ...

The Coffee and Geneva County Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities presented annual awards Tuesday to outstanding educators, businesses, social agencies and individuals who help people with disabilities become an integral part of the community.

Students in Geneva County are taking a stand against drugs, alcohol and tobacco.

Children under the age of 14 make up about 20-percent of fire deaths each year, but the Geneva County Family Services Center wants to change those statistics.

Federal agents recently charged a Mexican man reportedly deported from the U.S. more than a dozen times with illegal reentry by an illegal alien.

The decision to send armed military policemen from Fort Rucker in response to the mass murders in Samson on March 10 was a violation of federal law, an Army investigation concluded.

A desire to be close to family and the opportunity to work with outstanding physicians are among the reasons Samson native Dr.

In a year's time, Alabama unemployment has doubled and much of the Wiregrass has followed suit.

There is more than one Hart family lineage associated with Covington County. The one to be featured in today's column is that of Moses Hart, Sr., a native of North Carolina.

Alabama Homeland Security Director Jim Walker congratulates Geneva County Schools for their efforts in ensuring safety for their school children.