U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell hosted an information session at Marion Military Institute on Tuesday evening, Sept. 29, for students interested in attending the nation’s military service academies. “Serving our country is one of the highest callings,” Sewell said afterward, sharing photos from the evening. Sewell pointed students to her website for the academy nomination process,... Read More

Six of the 34 rural health grants Gov. Kay Ivey announced Thursday, Oct. 1, name Perry County among the counties they will serve, three of them awarded to Cahaba Medical Care Foundation. The grants, nearly $55 million in all, are the second round of the Alabama Rural Health Transformation Program this year, the governor’s office... Read More

A Hale County grand jury has indicted an Akron man on eight sex offense charges involving a child, including first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy, according to Hale County Circuit Court records. Austin Brooks Barnette, 30, of Akron is charged with two counts of rape in the first degree and two counts of sodomy in the... Read More

The Town of Newbern will hold a Community Cleanup Day beginning at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. Anyone who wants to take part is invited to meet at Newbern Town Hall at 7:30 a.m., according to an announcement from council member Patricia Jackson. Everyone is encouraged to come out and help keep the Newbern community... Read More

A Hale County grand jury has indicted a Sawyerville man on a murder charge in the June 6 shooting death of 24-year-old LaBrian O’Neal Jones Jr., according to Hale County Circuit Court records. Kardarrell Darnell Winn, 23, of Sawyerville is charged with murder, a Class A felony. The indictment charges that Winn intentionally caused Jones’s... Read More

Grand jury also indicts Gadsden woman charged in June A Greensboro woman has been indicted on a charge of permitting or facilitating the escape of an inmate who walked out of the Hale County Jail in May, according to Hale County Circuit Court records. Patreice Genae Gooden, 39, of Greensboro is charged with permitting or... Read More

The Shelton State Community College Singers and Jazz Combo will perform at the Greensboro Opera House at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, with a reception to follow. Admission is free. The Shelton Singers, an auditioned mixed choir of students from many academic areas, has been performing for more than 40 years, with concerts across the... Read More

Akron Mayor Chris Rollins has collected more than a hundred signatures on a petition asking the U.S. Postal Service to keep the Akron post office open, WBRC 6 News reported Oct. 2, and U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell has urged the Postal Service to do the same. The Postal Service will move the Akron office’s business... Read More