Tuscaloosa County News

Tuscaloosa County deputies are watching Interstate 20/59 less closely but Bessemer police and Alabama State Troopers still watch the roadway.

In addition to the hundreds of amateur fireworks shows in Central Alabama, there will be plenty of chances to see spectacular professional shows.

Walter Davie, the principal at Tuscaloosaa s Davis-Emerson Middle School, was hired as the next principal at Demopolis High School, taking the reins following Dr.

Wayne Vickers on Wednesday in a special called meeting. The board voted 3-0 to accept the resignation and continue to pay Vickers through July 15.

The board interviewed former Thomasville High School principal Leon Clark and Davis-Edmonds Middle School principal Dr.

June 24-- If your son or daughter attends The University of Alabama there is good reason for concern.

Expect lane closures along I-20/59 in Tuscaloosa County. The Alabama Department of Transportation will be conducting routine maintenance on I-20/59 Southbound between mileposts 68-66 on Thursday, June 25, 2009 and Friday, June 26, 2009.

Three men were locked up, after being charged with robbery in Tuscaloosa County.

Millions of people living in nearly 600 neighborhoods across the country are breathing concentrations of toxic air pollutants that put them at a much greater risk of contracting cancer, according to new data from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Educators across Tuscaloosa have banded together to redefine the meaning of "summer school" for area high school students.

A former Forrest City resident died last week from stab wounds allegedly inflicted by her husband at their home in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Captain Loyd Baker, with the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit, said Shanta Shinell Holland Hicks, 28, died Friday morning from stab wounds she suffered Thursday night during an attack by her husband, Tyrone ...

So we ask you to join our efforts to make our communities safer. If you've seen any of this week's suspects, call Crime Stoppers, and let us know where they are.

A DNA sample taken from a man during a March traffic stop has led Tuscaloosa police to a suspect in two sexual assaults near the University of Alabama campus.

Alabama Department of Industrial Relations Director Tom Surtees announced today that a Tuscaloosa resident has been arrested and convicted for making false statements in claims for unemployment compensation benefits.

Isolated heavy downpours, some with thunder and lightning, formed early today, wetting some neighborhoods between 7 and 11 am.

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.

Chapter Seven Excerpt Tuscaloosa, Alabama In the backwoods of rural Tuscaloosa County twelve men convened an emergency meeting of the Society of Southron Patriots.

USBanker, a national trade publication, released its annual ranking in the June issue, which became available Wednesday.

Shelby County 911 now gets 60 to 70 percent of its distress calls from cell phones, said director John Ellison.

Two people died Saturday afternoon after a two-car crash near Northport. State troopers say the crash happened just after 4:00pm on Highway 171 in Tuscaloosa County.