Sumter County News

According to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Yarbrough is charged with sodomy, first degree, and he could be in west Alabama.

Revs. Bob Little and Chris Spencer share a laugh after visiting their churches in Sumter County, Ala.

It takes you back to a time that younger generations didn't even know existed. A twang from a banjo from the 1800s playing a song that was popular way before many of us were alive.

Here's a bright ray of sunshine where clouds too often blanket government agencies: The Alabama School Community Information Network, with March's national Sunshine Week in mind, reviewed every public school district in the state to see what kinds of information their Web sites make available to the public.

SELMA -- The body of a 39-year-old Selma man was recovered from the Alabama River on Monday -- more than a day after his red pickup broke through a wooden barrier and plunged down a steep embankment to the water, authorities said.

Northern Greene and Hale counties have taken it on the meteorological chin so far this afternoon with a real pounding provided by rather persistent and very heavy thunderstorms.

The Herald Independent has learned that Fairfield County School Superintendent Dr.

The search for Montgomery's new school superintendent narrowed dramatically on Thursday.

Interim Montgomery Public Schools Superintendent Clay Slagle is one of five finalists for the position left vacant when John Dilworth accepted a similar post in Louisiana last April.

A former teacher's aide and gym teacher faces sex abuse charges involving minors in two counties.

A line of showers is pushing eastward into Alabama, there is even some lightning activity in Sumter county.

Wal-Mart hosted its first dog show on Saturday, what Wal-Mart officials said they hoped would become an annual event.

A Livingston plant has converted wood scraps trucked from Hoover into ethanol that will be used for the first time Thursday to fuel some of the city's police vehicles.

So far there have been 19 tornado reports with this system since Friday morning.

An attorney who served as municipal judge in two west Alabama cities resigned after being arrested on charges of stealing about $80,000 from a client, police said Monday.

For many years, attorney Robert Seale served as the municipal judge for the cities of Livingston and York.

An earthquake measuring 2.2 on the Richter scale occurred about 11 miles south of Centreville early Wednesday morning.

Vera Hall is sampled here in Santic's version of Troubled so Hard . I think this is another example of the influence of gospel blues music on other forms of music.

Alabama State Troopers stopped a 2001 Kenworth Tractor on Interstate 20/59 South in Sumter County, Alabama.

Sumter County students were able to show off their writing and speaking skills to the public Friday.