Lauderdale County News

On Sunday morning, an Alabama state trooper pulled over a Lauderdale County man and his nephew, unaware the truck they were driving and the two all-terrain vehicles they were hauling were all stolen from Athens, an official said.

Florence police arrested a woman after her boyfriend said she shot at him. The TimesDaily reports that 43-year-old Cynthia Carol Vaden was charged with first-degree attempted assault.

The federal government is stepping in to offer financial help to Alabama farmers.

A former Florence resident who pleaded guilty to trying to sexually abuse a 6-year-old girl has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, the TimesDaily newspaper reports.

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Lauderdale County and Florence city school districts are looking to renew a property tax to avoid budget cuts.

A man wanted for questioning in the Tuscumbia robbery in which a piece of the robber's nose was bitten off turned himself in Thursday morning to Florence police on outstanding warrants, officials said in a Florence TimesDaily report this morning.

In the Shoals, hundreds of people gathered to remember a fallen soldier. Corporal James Tyler Lindsey, known as "Jamie", was killed in the line of duty in 2007.

MONTGOMERY a ' A man convicted of murdering a Florence woman whose head was almost cut off during a knife attack in 1988 will remain in prison at least 5 more years.

The school district's anti-cell phone policy was hardly lenient when it came to having them at school.

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.