Monroe County News

July 9 - More than a month after a man's body was found slumped over in a parked car at the Frisco City Baseball Complex, police say they have charged a 17 year old with his murder.

A car and a log truck collided on Ala. 41 north of Monroeville this afternoon, killing two people, Alabama State Troopers said.

A 19-year-old Monroeville man died early this morning in a wreck along Coon Trail Road, according to State Troopers.

June. 1 - Frisco City Police and Monroe County Deputies are on the search for two suspects who they say shot at a police officer several times during a traffic stop.

FRISCO CITY - Authorities in southwest Alabama are looking for a suspect who fired on sheriff's deputies.

May 28 - Two Monroe County teachers were arrested on accusations they beat up a student at Earl's Place Club in Monroeville.

Martin Cos. LLC said today that it would spend $5 million to expand its Rocky Creek Lumber Co.

The Jay family, which settled in Butler, Conecuh and Monroe counties and later moved into Covington County was introduced in last weeka s column.

Several years earlier, a review was written of the Jay family in Covington County.

Living in Monroe County provides for opportunities to attend some very nice community colleges.

A Florida-based sign company that picked this inland city as the site of a new plant after catastrophic storms devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005 closed its Monroeville operation this week, laying off some 50 workers and filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to court records.

Agee Broughton runs a general store in Perdue Hill. It's just a few miles from Alabama River Newsprint.

Alabama River Newsprint , the Monroe County paper mill that put its workers on short time in December and idled the mill, told the 167 workers Tuesday that they will be permanently laid off in early June.

As I watch the debate over who should be re sponsible for feeding county inmates in Alabama, I think back to stories my dad used to tell of his father, who was for many years the sheriff of Monroe County.

Newsprint maker AbitibiBowater announced Wednesday that it would extend a refinancing deadline for the fourth time, pushing it back from 11:59 p.m. Wednesday to 5 p.m. Friday.

A single-vehicle wreck in Monroe County left a 19-year-old man dead and his passenger injured.

A group of concerned parents and teachers are trying to save a Monroe County school.

Almost four months after AbitibiBowater idled its Alabama River Newsprint mill in Monroe County, the paper mill's future remains uncertain, as the parent company scrambled Friday to cut debt.

Tickets for the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," the timeless classic performed in Monroeville by an all-volunteer cast, The Mockingbird Players, are still available for the dates April 24, 25, and 30 and May 3, ...

From 9 a.m.-2 p.m. March 12-13, and from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.March14 at the Alabama River Museum, Claiborne Lock & Dam, Franklin, Ala., more than 30 demonstrators and living history re-enactors will come to the ...