Chatom News

Times Business Writer brian.lawson@htimes.com Budget faces cuts; panel approves fee for spring semester With its first full complement of board members since February, the Alabama A&M University board of ...

There are Winter Weather Advisories in effect for George, and Greene counties in Mississippi...and for Washington and Clarke counties in Alabama.

A 56-year-old Mount Vernon preacher who pleaded guilty to incest in October has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.

October 24 -- The Alabama Secretary of State's office is taking a close look at county's where registration totals either meet or exceed the adult population.

A Chatom woman has been arrested after police say she plotted to kill her husband by putting horse painkiller into his IV.

Sept. 15 -- An area mother and wife is behind bars after investigators say she plotted to poison her husband.

From the Alabama backwoods to the battlefields of World War II to Redlands, Steve T. Loper Jr.'s life was an extraordinary journey.

Aug. 20 -- A local county commissioner is now behind bars. Washington County Commissioner Johnny Johnston was indicted on five counts of public corruption and making threats.

Aug. 19 -- A local county commissioner will soon be arrested and charged with intimidating a witness.

A judge Tuesday refused to throw four new Alabama A&M University trustees off the board, but the issue is far from dead.

A judge Tuesday refused to throw four new Alabama A&M University trustees off the board, but the issue is far from dead.

CHATOM -- The mail arrives about an hour later than it used to in pockets of Washington County.

When Hurricane Katrina devastated several families in the Black Belt area, residents like Mariann Graves wondered if they would ever get back to a normal life.

Sharon Beech was scared to go to college. Hearing impaired, the 45-year-old single mother of three teens hadn't been in a class in almost 20 years.

BRYAN PAUL LOWE Rebecca Jane Loper and Bryan Paul Lowe, both of Rome, were married at 6 p.m., Saturday, May 31, 2008, at Darlington Schools Morris Chapel in Rome.