Gadsden News Archives

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.

GADSDEN - Relatives of an Alabama man found guilty of capital murder in the 2006 killing of his girlfriend's young son urged jurors to spare his client's life.

What started out as a church fundraiser has evolved into a local business, but its primary goal still is to raise funds for the church.

Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 8:50 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 8:54 p.m. Rainbow City Mayor Terry John Calhoun was so interested in the bids for the extension of Black Creek Parkway to Sutton Bridge Road that he listened to the Alabama Department of Transportation's bid opening on the Internet from ALDOT's Web site.

Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences pathologist Dr. Emily Ward testified in the capital murder trial of Kevin Andre Towles, who is accused of killing Geontae "Gee" Glass on Dec.

Photographs of the body of the victim were shown to the jury as testimony continued in the trial of a man charged in the beating death of a 5-year-old. The Gadsden Times says photographs of the body of Geontae Glass were submitted into evidence Thursday as Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin testified in the capital murder trial of Kevin Towles, ...

The sister of a 5-year-old who was beaten to death - then became the focus of a hoax abduction - testified that her mother's boyfriend was upset with her brother, took him outside her home and, when they returned, the boy wasn't moving.

"A Marshall County pediatrician charged with the rape of a patient in February has been indicted by a federal grand jury for possessing child pornography.

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READY TO ROLL: Virgil Adcock is taking this 1937 Allis-Chalmers tractor to the first Allis-Chalmers "G" Roundup starting Oct.

Published: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 9:26 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 9:26 p.m. Lucy's Afterlife Night Club and Spirits Emporium on Chestnut Street in Gadsden has gotten a new life.

One of the most important things a woman can do for her health is to get a yearly mammogram to screen for breast cancer.

A man is being held on first-degree arson and attempted murder charges in connection with an Attalla house fire in September at a time his girlfriend and one of her children were inside, The Gadsden Times reports.