Lauderdale County News

When a Florence woman sentenced to 15 years in prison for drug distribution came up for parole four months later, people familiar with the case asked why.

Firefighters responded to a home in St. Florian this morning. When they arrived, they found a fully-involved fire.

For months, burglaries and thefts have plagued the Petersville community in Lauderdale County.

Jacques, Teddy OlsonA's chocolate Labrador retriever who will always bear the scars of fire that killed TeddyA's mother, is almost too exuberant to hold back as he tries to display affection for everyone.

Three large hotel chains are opening locations in Florence. Once the construction of the new hotels is complete, an additional 258 rooms will be available in Florence and Lauderdale County.

Two men accused of assaulting a Florence police officer had been on the run since Saturday, but not anymore.

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

A new nation wide push is in effect to get more fruits and vegetables in school cafeterias.

Lauderdale County Sheriff's Deputies have arrested and charged a man in connection with a February shooting death.

Limestone battened down the hatches as a line of severe thunderstorms tracked eastward across the central Tennessee Valley, but the area seems have to escaped any serious damage.

Due to the threat of severe weather and heavy rain, there are several closings and cancellations and changes to area football games.

A Lauderdale County jury deliberated for less than an hour before finding a 33-year-old man guilty of second-degree assault in the beating of a Florence man.

A man who was out of jail on bail accused of forging a judge's name on a document, is back behind bars after he was accused of trying to pass prescriptions from a dead physician, authorities told the Times-Daily newspaper.

A grand jury has indicted a 51-year-old Lauderdale County man on a murder charge after an autopsy revealed his wife died last year from a broken neck.

A jury could soon return a verdict in the trial of a Florence man charged with attempted murder.

Following a burglary last week at a home off Lentzville Road in western Limestone County, Investigator Randy Burroughs learned that two men were trying to sell a jukebox in Lauderdale County that was reported stolen from the residence, Chief Investigator Stanley McNatt said Wednesday.

Construction workers will begin making safety improvements to the intersection in front of Blue Springs Elementary School in two weeks, an official said.

A Florence man who previously lived in Decatur has asked the state Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling in his child custody case.

Charges have now been filed on both suspects involved in a shooting at a church parking lot in Russellville.

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.