Billingsley News

Autauga County Sheriff Herbie Johnson, faced with budgetary restraints and plagued with a shortage of manpower, hopes that the newest addition to the county's crime-fighting arsenal will help alleviate both problems.

PRATTVILLE -- Autauga County Sheriff's Office deputies will be able to spend more time on the road, thanks to new computers in patrol cars.

Autauga County School System officials announced this week that the first round of the Alabama Department of Education's school-based H1N1 vaccination clinics has been set for Thursday, Dec.

Auburn University wants to make sure there's a good crop of students pursuing agriculture degrees in the future.

With the entire student body looking on from behind the ball field fence, Billingsley School Assistant Prin cipal Ann Glasscock lets out a little shriek at the prospect of kissing a pig.

The Alabama High School Athletic Association's 2010-2012 classifications were approved and released Wednesday morning.

Mississippi Hi Point hosted the Blazing Saddles Harescramble on Oct. 25 in Ellisville, Miss.

PLANTERSVILLE a ' Dallas County has changed gameday for Senior Night to Thursday, when Billingsley will come to Plantersville for the Hornetsa TM last regular-season game.

Alabama jumped Florida to become No. 1 in this week's Associated Press poll, but the Crimson Tide was a solid No.

When my father was a young boy, like many, he grew restless on the farm and sought adventure.

A community walking trail is in the works for Billingsley High School, thanks to recently approved grants.

Linebacker Dont'a Hightower was an immediate standout from Alabama's 2008 signing class.

Jim Moore literally traveled cross country to be in Chilton County on Sunday for a family cemetery dedication.

While most Autauga County residents were fretting Wednes day over a daylong -- actually sev eral days long -- deluge that dumped several inches of rain on an already-waterlogged county, those in the county's mid-western sector had more important weath er concerns than the heavy rains.

PRATTVILLE -- Erin Little's blood runs cold when the severe weather sirens sound in Prattville.

Recently, my office hosted our sixth tele phone town hall. I talked to and fielded calls from people around the Sec ond District from my con gressional office in Mont gomery.

Autauga County Commis sioners have plans to bring re tail growth to the rural parts of the county, and the future rests on the lowly sewer pipe.

A Selma man who was arrested in 2008 for the murder of a west Autauga County woman was released Friday.

Only one of Alabama's public school systems posted a perfect score on the annual Adequate Yearly Progress report, the state's accountability system for assessing student progress in math and reading, and it wasn't Autauga County's. But, while local schools didn't attain that status, they didn't miss it by much.

Two local educators will represent their schools at the state level in the Alabama Association of Career Technical Educators .