Carbon Hill News

The Carbon Hill City Council voted on Thursday to freeze all discretionary spending in response to a mass mailout of the Corridor Messenger newspaper to city residents.

Mayor Petey Ellis told the Sumiton City Council on Tuesday that he had been presented with a petition containing the names of 291 certified voters for a referendum on alcohol sales.

MOBILE, Alabama -- In her first novel, "The Well and the Mine" , Alabama native Gin Phillips evocatively captured the South during the Great Depression.

The Memphis office of the Geological Survey reported an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude 2.9 hit at 10 a.m. Thursday.

For about five years, Frieda Palmer look in neglected horses at her Walker County farm and let disadvantaged kids help with the horses and get riding lessons.