Columbiana News

A preliminary hearing for The Basement founder Matt Pitt has been scheduled for June 13 at 8:30 a.m. The hearing will be before Judge Dan Reeves at the Shelby County Courthouse in Columbiana, said Jill Smitherman, the supervisor in the criminal court district.

ALZ025-220700- SHELBY AL- 113 AM CDT TUE MAY 22 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SHELBY COUNTY UNTIL 200 AM CDT... AT 111 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MEADOWBROOK TO HELENA TO 5 MILES WEST OF MAYLENE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

Thank Goodness I'm Fixed! -- offers puppies, kittens and adult pets that have been spayed or neutered, microchipped and updated on all necessary vaccinations.

The Shelby School Board dismissed findings by DHR that Daniel Acker, Jr. sexually abused a former student and allowed him to keep his teaching job.

The shotgun starts are at 8 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., and lunch will be at 11:30 a.m, organizers said.

The Shelby Baptist Association's new mobile ministry unit visited Vincent for the first time on May 8. The association's mobile food pantry was set up at First Baptist Church Vincent to help meet needs in the community.

Maurice Sendak, the children's book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes-dark side of childnood in books like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen," has died.

Retired Alabaster fourth-grade teacher Daniel M. Acker Jr. this afternoon pleaded guilty to seven counts of child sexual abuse in Shelby County circuit Court.

Officials at the Space and Rocket Center confirmed that several shots were fired into the Davidson Center Thursday morning.

U.S. District Judge Abdul Kallon Wednesday sentenced a Shelby County woman to 10 years in prison for conspiring with her mother to hire someone to kill her ex-husband in 2009.