Grant News

People supporting a litter-free community were honored during the awards and recognition dinner sponsored by Marshall County PALS on Oct.

A Marshall County man is being accused of trying to kill his own mother. 22-year-old Johnathan Baker was arrested at his home just outside the town of Grant Wednesday night.

A second prisoner has been charged with promoting prison contraband for trying to make an alcoholic beverage in his Limestone County jail cell, an official said.

Fire crews battled an early morning house fire early in Marshall County. It started shortly after five this morning on 4th Street in Grant, just off Main Street, which is also Cathedral Caverns Highway.

Amelia Platts Boynton is shown here in an archival photo after she was beaten March 7, 1965, on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and left for dead.

A piece of Marshall County history went up in flames earlier this month - now police need your help finding out who is responsible.

A $10,000 reward is being offered for information to leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for a fire that destroyed the McDonald Supply Building here earlier this month.

Doris Bridges Guffey, 75, of Grant, died Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009, at Shepherd's Cove - Hospice of Marshall County.

A historic building in Marshall County is destroyed by fire overnight. Firefighters got a call shortly after 10 Wednesday night to respond to the W.O. McDonald Building Supply warehouse on Main Street in Grant.

A historic building in Marshall County is destroyed by fire overnight. Firefighters got a call shortly after 10 Wednesday night to respond to the W.O. McDonald Building Supply warehouse on Main Street in Grant.

Investigators return Friday morning to the scene of a massive business fire. Lt. Junior James with the Grant fire department describes his first images of W.O. Mcdonald's Building Supply store Wednesday night.

A historic building in Marshall County is destroyed by fire overnight. Firefighters got a call shortly after 10 Wednesday night to respond to the W.O. McDonald Building Supply warehouse on Main Street in Grant.

Volunteer firefighters from around Marshall County helped put out a fire at W.O. McDonald Building Supply Store in Grant.

The Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts released the audit results of the County Commission from Oct.

Seven-million dollars in federal funding is coming to the state of Alabama. The city of Collinsville is one of 16 towns that could receive funding to upgrade their sewer system.

Collinsville is the only DeKalb town in line for a slice of a $7 million federal stimulus pie.

Marshall County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a call about several car burglaries and a suspicious vehicle in the Pine and Preston Islands areas at 3 a. m. Thursday.

Training Officer Gene Necklaus of the Scottsboro Fire Department has been selected to participate in the 2009 Assistance to Firefighters Grant as a technical evaluation reviewer.

The Jackson County Commission approved the hiring of Sandra Erickson as county administrator during Monday's meeting.

Two upcoming economic workshops will give community leaders and residents a chance to learn more about programs and grants available for Cullman County.