Brundidge News

The Rev. Jim Powell doesn't hesitate to say that, for a long time, he ran from God's call to the ministry.

Bradley Byrne, chancellor of Alabama's two-year college system, was blunt in his assessment of the system's shape when he took over last year.

Brundidge's District 5 race will come down to one long-time councilwoman and one newcomer, both eager to impact their community.

Fires often have a way of destroying history as well as property, but residents of this little Pike County town found a way to save both.

For many years, Sen. Wendell Mitchell has been helping make dreams come true in Brundidge.

Residents in a local city are breathing a sigh of relief, along with clean air thanks to a recent grant.

In as soon as six weeks, several dilapidated houses in Brundidge may come down. At Tuesday's city council meeting, the Brundidge council heard a presentation on how the city will work toward cleaning up the ...

Candidates for local municipal offices will share their views on key election year issues during a stump meeting Monday night in Troy.

The Brundidge City Council voted to appoint its two unopposed candidates into office for the next election term on Tuesday.

The Brundidge community is mourning the loss of one of its favorite sons. The death of Douglas Botts on Aug.

With four challengers to Brundidge's local government, residents will face bid decisions in this year's municipal election.

An Alabama county’s policy requiring vendors to pledge in writing that they do not knowingly employ illegal immigrants is being legally challenged for being unconstitutional and a judge could decide the law’s fate next week.

Located in the heart of the Tennessee Valley and sandwiched between Mississippi and Georgia, Alabama’s Madison County passed the law about ten months ago to assure that public dollars weren’t being used to pay illegal immigrants hired by companies fulfilling county contracts.

The anti-illegal alien pledge policy simply requires firms seeking county contracts to submit in writing that they do not knowingly employ illegal immigrants. A construction company, that recently lost a multi million-dollar contract because it didn’t abide by the policy, is suing the county claiming the policy contradicts federal law.

Attorneys for Wiregrass Construction, which was seeking a major paving deal, claim the pledge is unconstitutional and wades into immigration issues that are exclusive territory of the federal government. The attorneys assure that “every single requirement contradicts federal law.”

The 2008 Troy-Pike Habitat for Humanity banquet Tuesday night celebrated the accomplishments of the 2007-08 year and charted a path for the coming year.

A Head Start program coming to Brundidge is among 107 new pre-kindergarten classes announced Tuesday by Gov.

A Brundidge woman charged with murder pled not guilty at the Pike County Courthouse during arraignment hearings Monday.

Within the next 60 days, the company behind a new waste-by-rail system in Brundidge hopes to have started construction.

A 77-year-old Brundidge woman died Wednesday from injuries sustained in a single-vehicle crash on Sunday south of Evergreen on Interstate 65.

The sixth annual Eufaula Street Art and Music Festival will be held in downtown Eufaula tomorrow , from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Main Street Eufaula Director Ann Sparks hopes the weather will be more pleasant for ...

A new study tracks case-ready packaging trends in the fresh meat case, but will a reversal in Wal-Mart's meat-packaging strategy set these statistics on a new course? Case-ready meat and poultry packaging is ...

Approximately one-in-three jobs in Barbour County are manufacturing jobs. But in the past year, Barbour County has seen numerous industries close in the area.