Perry County News

Congressman Artur Davis is asking federal environmental officials to act more swiftly to assure the safety of coal ash being shipped into west Alabama for disposal in Perry County.

A Perry County grand jury has indicted a former Uniontown police officer. An indictment for third-degree burglary was issued for Michael Hardy, said District Attorney Michael Jackson.

" A congressional panel was assembled Wednesday to discuss the ongoing cleanup of last year's coal ash spill at the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County.

A trackhoe scoops up spilled coal ash which is being loaded into rail cars for shipment to an Alabama landfill in Perry County for disposal.

A trackhoe scoops up spilled coal ash which is being loaded into rail cars for shipment to an Alabama landfill in Perry County for disposal.

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This aerial view shows the scale of the Arrowhead landfill in Perry County where TVA coal ash is being disposed.

Johnny L. Flowers of Uniontown has announced his candidacy for the House of Representatives Seat in District 72.

If she could throw as she once could, Ruby Holmes could walk across the road in front of her house and toss a rock over a treeline and have it land in the sprawling landfill that has been operating there the past two years.

The sign going on the front door at the Perry County courthouse reads: "Closed for the Obama Holiday." The rural, mostly black county has proclaimed Monday as an official holiday celebrating the election of the nation's first black president, Barack Obama.

President Barack Obama is being honored with his own holiday in Perry County. The Alabama Black Belt county that gained national attention when it established a holiday to honor Barack Obama's presidential election is celebrating that holiday with five days of activities.

A former Alabama State Trooper has been indicted on a first-degree sexual abuse charge stemming from a woman's complaint that he fondled her while in his trooper car along a Perry County Highway last year, according to Perry County's district attorney.

A trackhoe scoops up spilled coal ash which is being loaded into rail cars for shipment to an Alabama landfill in Perry County for disposal.

Trauma Injuries Steadily Declining at Children's ... Trauma doctors at Children's have seen a steady decrease in brain and spinal cord injuries since ThinkFirst Alabama got started.

Millions of pounds of Tennessee coal ash continue to be dumped in a Perry County landfill, leaving many people in the area steaming mad about the situation.

A coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee on December 22nd, 2008 has people in Uniontown spilling into city hall.

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled today that a prosecutor doesn't have disclose his list of possible witnesses and their expected testimony in the prosecution of a 44-year-old shooting death from the civil rights era.

The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled a prosecutor doesn't have to disclose his list of possible witnessesand their expected testimony in the prosecution of a 44-year-old shooting death from the civil rights movement.

" A 16 year-old Uniontown resident is facing a felony charge in Dallas County and possibly two more in two different counties after one free-for-all night through four counties.

The citizens of poverty-stricken Uniontown in Perry County, Ala. are crying, 'Not in my backyard.' And rightfully so.