A Marion woman is charged with endangering the welfare of a child after Selma police say they found four young children left unattended in a hot vehicle in the Selma Walmart parking lot Thursday, Sept. 3. D’Anna Nicole Harris, 26, was arrested after officers on routine patrol spotted the children in a parked car as... Read More

Pizza has always been there for me—it doesn’t let you down. There’s a reason almost every depiction of teenagers in any given TV show or movie brings it around to pizza in one way or another. You’d think I was made of pizza when I was a teenager. In fact, I distinctly remember many a... Read More

Zion Chapel Methodist Church in Marion has been awarded a $54,937.50 historic preservation grant through the Alabama Historical Commission’s Historic Sites Grant Program, funded by the state Legislature. Sen. Robert Stewart announced the award, noting that the church, known locally as Zion Church, holds an important place in the history of the Voting Rights Movement.... Read More

The Marion City Council has postponed its Tuesday, Sept. 8, meeting after the death Saturday, Sept. 5, of Bennie C. Hinton Sr., 73, the father of Mayor Dexter Hinton, the city announced Sunday. The council’s next regular meeting is Monday, Sept. 21. Funeral services will be Saturday, Sept. 12, at 1 p.m. at Berean Baptist... Read More

Fire science and criminal justice degrees added this fall; plans unveiled for a model fire house Marion Military Institute cut the ribbon Wednesday, Sept. 2, on two major additions to its First Responder Program: a fire training burn tower funded through an Alabama Community College System workforce development grant and a fire training pumper engine... Read More

The woman charged with murder in the November stabbing death of a Marion man will stay in jail for now, after a nearly two-hour hearing Wednesday, Sept. 2, at which a Perry County district judge found probable cause for the charge and put off a decision on whether she can be released. Anastassja “Anya” Cooper... Read More

Donald J. Bennett Sr. is the only name listed for Perry County Commission District 1 on the sample ballot for the Nov. 3 general election, with a write-in line beneath it and no listing for Commissioner Albert Turner. The sample ballot, which the probate judge’s office prepares from the nominees certified to it, began circulating... Read More

Project Horseshoe Farm’s 2026-27 class of Greensboro Community Health Fellows has arrived. The 14 recent college graduates come from 12 states, from Hawaii to Connecticut, with one from just up the road in Tuscaloosa, and they will spend the year in Greensboro working with the nonprofit’s Health Partners, its after-school and summer youth programs and... Read More