Gadsden News

Published: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 10:41 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 10:41 p.m. A funding shortfall for the extension of Black Creek Parkway will be shared by Rainbow City, the city of Gadsden and the Etowah County Commission, officials said Monday.

Published: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 7:32 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 7:32 p.m. Two different types of opera - classical opera and Grand Ole Opry music - will be featured in a unique fundraiser Saturday evening at the Hardin Center for Cultural Arts.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 6:36 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 6:37 p.m. More schools in Etowah County will be receiving security cameras under a grant approved Tuesday by the Etowah County Commission.

Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 1:31 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 1:34 p.m. It has been 14 years since three Etowah County men were tied up, robbed and set on fire at a hunting lodge in Coosa County.

The 9-year-old sister a 2-year-old girl believed to have died of injuries from a 2005 beating took the witness stand and told how she tried to defend her sister as testimony got under way Thursday in the capital murder trial of a Rainbow City man.

Published: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 6:44 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 6:47 p.m. A Gadsden man has been charged with attempted murder after he fired shots toward a man in another car late Friday.

GADSDEN, Ala. a ' An Alabama soldier assigned to the Fort Payne National Guard unit has been killed in an accident in Kuwait.

Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 8:55 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 8:55 p.m. Local officials will be meeting with Alabama Department of Transportation officials next week to discuss a funding controversy involving the Black Creek Parkway extension to connect to Steele Station Road.

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10:10 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10:11 p.m. The swine flu vaccine will be given for a second day today after only about 350 people turned out Wednesday in Gadsden for the free injection.

If you're going to be taking a trip to Gadsden or Birmingham in the next two years, you may want to consider an alternative to Interstate 59.

Published: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 10:53 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 10:54 p.m. The Gadsden City Council and mayor took time during Tuesday's council meeting to urge residents to fill out the 2010 Census forms when they receive them in the mail next year.

Published: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 11:18 p.m. If things go according to plan, members of the Gadsden National Guard 151st Chemical Battalion will get a shipment from home in time for Thanksgiving.

Investigators say 39-year old Steven Richard Surdick of Gadsden was picked up by Attalla Police after a traffic stop.

Published: Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 3:48 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 3:48 p.m. A steady, crowded stream of students, teachers, parents and grandparents got to relive history as they moved among dozens of historic exhibits on a recent morning at Gaston School.

A Gadsden man was arrested for failing to register as a sex offender. Steven Richard Surdick, 39, was charged with not registering with the Community Notification Act.

Bonds have been set for two women arrested Thursday after police found materials used in making methamphetamine in a shed behind a home here.

Kevin Towles, the boyfriend of Geontae Glass' mother, Shalinda Glass, is charged with beating 5-year-old Geontae to death then faking his kidnapping.

The family of Melanie Gray Lowery on Tuesday asked the Pardons and Paroles Board to release her from prison because she has served nearly 19 years of a 30-year sentence for killing her husband.

In Kansas, ita s a scheduling delay. In Gadsden, ita s serendipity.The next stop on the schedule for a oeInk & Blood: Dead Sea Scrolls to Gutenberg,a which has been on exhibit in the Hardin Center for several months, is Kansas City, Kan.

Published: Friday, October 16, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 7:53 p.m. MoonSong Music Acoustic Songwriters Cafe is the site of a CD release party Saturday for Alabama folk/acoustic singer/songwriter Abby Parks.