Lawrence County News

Firefighters responded to a call around 11:30 Friday night that a car was on fire inside the garage of a home in Speake, off of County Road 327.

Investigators solved two burglaries and three thefts with the arrest of a Trinity man, Lawrence County Sheriff Gene Mitchell said today.

Rescuers found the body of a 20-year-old man after he went missing Wednesday night, The Times' news partner, WHNT News 19 reports.

At Spring Creek Bridge on County Road 400, a group was fishing Wednesday evening.

An alleged shoplifter had meth and prescription drugs stashed in her purse when she was arrested Saturday, Decatur police said.

A Colbert County man is in jail after he sold marijuana to undercover drug agents, officials said.

Lawrence County Sheriff Gene Mitchell said he believes alcohol was involved in a deadly shooting Sunday night at 599 Lawrence County 345, Trinity.

Lawrence County authorities are looking for a suspect connected to a fatal shooting in the Trinity Community Sunday night, reports The Times news partner, WHNT News 19 .

State troopers said a pedestrian was killed just before 3 a.m. today when he was struck by a vehicle on Alabama 157, about 10 miles south of Town Creek.

These former Lawrence County athletes presented awards for physical fitness during "Kids Have a Fit" Day.

An avid photographer and member of her school yearbook staff, Caitlyn Martin, 17, was the "kind of person who liked to be behind the camera, not in front of it," Hatton High School teacher Rhonda Nesmith said.

State Troopers said the vehicle driven by 17-year-old Caitlyn Martin of Russellville collided with an 18-wheeler on Highway 157 at 7:40 a.m. The wreck happened nine miles west of Moulton.

Pay It Forward is designed to recognize people who, without expecting anything in return, go well out of their way to help others in need.

A Moulton man hired by a Mount Hope homeowner to renovate a house turned the vacant residence into a meth lab, Lawrence County Sheriff Gene Mitchell said Monday.

A father and daughter lost their home Sunday night to a fire. Fire crews responded to a fire call just after 11:00 p.m. on County Road 225, just north of Alabama Highway 24.

Lawrence County firefighters responded to a home in flames on County Road 225 late Sunday, reports The Times' news partner, WHNT News 19 .

From 4 the previous morning until 10 at night, tornadoes had pounded the state. They killed 248 and injured far more.