Anniston Metro News

On Tuesday, retired Air Force general Robin Scott was hired as the chief executive officer over the redevelopment of McClellan.

The director of homeland security in Alabama says efforts to prevent or respond to a terrorist attack or natural disaster in rural America could be hampered by manpower and funding shortages.

It's well known that genes and weight gain are risk factors for diabetes, but now researchers have found another possible cause that could in your own backyard.

The General William Henry Forney Chapter No. 468 of Anniston held its regular monthly meeting on June 5. New officers were elected for the 2008-2010 term.

Federal and local authorities this morning are still looking for two men who robbed the Wachovia bank in Lenlock yesterday then kidnapped two women from a local neighborhood.

The Defense Department says it will send close to 800 more bomb-resistant vehicles to Afghanistan where a resurgent Taliban has military leaders developing plans to send thousands of U.S. troop reinforcements.

The F.B.I. is identifying 20 year old Gabriel Dewayne Rice as a suspect in Wednesday's Anniston bank robbery.

Men sought in bank robbery in Anniston The Associated Press * July 17, 2008 Authorities searched Wednesday for two armed men who allegedly robbed an east Alabama bank and briefly abducted two women during a ...

To steal the words of Anniston City Schools Superintendent Joan Frazier, it was 'a good beginning.' Now the quest is to make sure it's not an abnormality.

Anniston police and the FBI are investigating the robbery of a Wachovia Bank. It all happened Wednesday morning around 10:30 at the Wachovia on Bill Robinson Parkway.

A worker was burned but later returned to work at Union Foundry when a storage tank caught fire early this morning.

For 20 years, Wallace Lindsey has volunteered his Monday afternoons to deliver hot lunches to the elderly and the physically disabled who receive help through Interfaith Ministries' Meals on Wheels program.

That paragraph - long-winded, but worth the effort - leaped off the page when it came across my desk a few days ago.

The former owner of an Oxford insurance company is out on bond after his July 2 arrest on 14 counts of theft.

The Alabama Attorney General's office says an Anniston woman has been arrested and accused of first degree theft.

When images of catastrophic flood damage saturated the country a group in Anniston took action.

An even more terrible practice than usury is when people misuse that word when referring to a legitimate lending practice: payday loans.

ANNISTON -- A herpetology hike sounds, well, inviting enough, but organizers of this past weekend's reptile search made their ad hiss.

It's cheaper to drive to Orlando. For a couple, airfare can be cheaper to Las Vegas.

On July 3, 1883 - 125 years ago today - Anniston went 'public.' In the 19th century version of a company's initial public offering to the stock market, or IPO, the closed northeast Alabama company town created ...