Abbeville News

Forty percent of residents in Abbeville are over sixty. A growing elderly population and many of them living alone.

Investigators with the Henry County S.O. / Abbeville Police Task Force made a felony drug arrest Wednesday afternoon around 3:00pm. 51-year-old George Kennedy of County Road 59 in Shorterville was charged with felony unlawful possession of a controlled substance.

Henry County authorities charged a 71-year-old Level Plains man with sodomizing a 20-year-old woman at a campground near Abbeville.

The Henry County Sheriffa TMs Office and Abbeville Police Departmenta TMs Investigative Task Force a ' General Case Division arrested a suspect on sex charges late last night.

An Abbeville man faces felony drug charges after Henry County authorities found a marijuana plant and illegal steroids in his home.

A new plan to combine three law enforcement agencies in one Wiregrass county is raising concern over the fine print.

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Law enforcement officers in Henry County took thousands of dollars worth of cocaine off the streets.

Those who responded to a deadly Henry County shootout in April involving police were honored Monday.

Henry County Sheriff's Office arrested Sharon Marshall March for forging perscriptions of hydrocodone.

The town of Headland doubled in size over the past couple years. It leaves the Headland Police Department with double the ground cover.

Christy Leigh Priester and Matthew Blake Murphy were united in marriage on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church.

Abbeville Police Chief Mike Jones says Thursday night's marijuana bust was the third marijuana trafficking arrest just this year.

"In 2001, we went from $26.5 million in federal funds to $70.4 million," said John Eagerton IV, chief of the Aeronautics Bureau of the Alabama Department of Transportation.

It will be up to Abbeville, Headland, and Henry County employees to produce Biodiesel.

Henry Countya TMs NJROTC programs are still up in the air. The program will continue for at least another year but after that, it will be up to residents if they want to save it from being eliminated.

A Monday morning high-speed chase near Abbeville left four people injured, including the suspect in the chase, when the suspect's vehicle caused a three-car accident.

The game is now scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for Montgomery County at 9:40 a.m. that said up to three inches or rain was expected over the next two to three hours.

A bill that would have let Henry County voters decide by a simple majority in a special election whether to renew an expiring ad valorem tax has died in the Alabama Legislature.

The National Weather Service has issued Severe Thunderstorm Watch 234 in effect until 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ this evening for the following areas In Alabama this watch includes 5 counties In southeast Alabama Coffee Dale Geneva Henry Houston In Georgia this watch includes 13 counties In south central Georgia Turner Worth In southwest Georgia Baker ...