Pickens County News

A disturbing story out of Pickens County tonight as authorities try to track a pack of wild dogs they believe may have killed a 96-year-old man and consumed his remains.

Authorities in Pickens County, Alabama, are trying to track a pack of wild dogs they believe may have killed a 96-year-old man and consumed his remains.

An Alabama man June 9 was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter charges in the Pickens County, Ala., Circuit Court.

The line of thunderstorms sweeping through the Birmingham-Hoover metro area this evening has brought high winds, but no report of tornadoes, according to officials with the National Weather Service.

The once powerful band of thunderstorms that crossed southern sections of the Birmingham metro area earlier this afternoon has weakened now, and is just a broken band of light to moderate rain showers extending from Cullman to southern Talladega county.

While we have enjoyed dry, tranquil weather across central Alabama this evening, a stout line of thunderstorms has pushed across northern Mississippi.

B.J. Sandlin of Maloy Automotive in Jasper was in the front office when a funnel cloud passed low over the business Wednesday morning.

B.J. Sandlin of Maloy Automotive in Jasper was in the front office when a funnel cloud passed low over the business Wednesday morning.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN PICKENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OFREFORMPICKENSVILLECARROLLTON * UNTIL 900 AM CDT * AT 806 AM CDTTHE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF ETHELSVILLEOR 9 MILES ...

The West Alabama Food Bank loaded about 10,000 pounds of food into trucks and took its mobile food pantry on the road for the first time.

Associated Press - April 10, 2009 8:14 AM ET CARROLLTON, Ala. - Alabama authorities plan to review as many as 100 past forensic cases by a medical examiner whose botched autopsy of a baby led a judge to throw out a murder charge against the mother.

Groundbreaking set for Alabama's first federal women's prison Posted by Tom Gordon -- Birmingham News April 06, 2009 Groundbreaking is scheduled Wednesday at the west Alabama site of what will be the state's first all-female federal prison.

Groundbreaking is scheduled Wednesday at the west Alabama site of what will be the state's first all-female federal prison.

Rainy weather has overspread much of central Alabama, and rain will continue to fall most of the time through Saturday morning, with the rain become more occasional in nature Saturday afternoon.

A little light rain is falling over Marion county now, but the main surge of rain will wait till after daybreak on Friday.

Fans of blues music are mourning the death of Alabama bluesman Willie King . He died of a heart attack Sunday at his home in Pickens County.

A wake and funeral are planned this weekend for Alabama blues artist Willie King, who died Sunday at the age of 65.

The silence that comes when famed musicians pass away is a shock to those who treasure such glorious work.

Diane McCool, chairman of the Pickens County Farmers Federation Women's Committee, has been appointed to the Alabama Historical Commission by Gov.

David Todd Stephens, 32, of Gordo, Ala., was arrested in Pickens County by the Alabama Bureau of Investigation and charged with capital murder in the death of his former wife, Tonya Luann Stephens, 30, of ...