Greenville News

The following is a news release from Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church. District Superintendent Ron Ball announced Monday, Nov.

"Turkey" tends to have a negative con notation in our country, but Bill Bates sees it as one of the highest possible compli ments anyone can receive.

Gov. Bob Riley has pardoned a Thanksgiving turkey as part of an annual Alabama tradition that dates back to 1949.

Come Thanksgiving Day 2009, Jimmy Love will have much to be grateful for. The 56-year-old big rig truck driver believes he truly dodged a bullet.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Reynard Norman, III of Greenville, Alabama announce the engagement of their daughter, Alice Dunn Norman to Andrew Wesley Warren, son of Ms.

This afternoon Jason Smith passed away. Jason Smith served the people of Houston and Henry County as an Assistant District Attorney.

This Saturday, folks will have a chance to enjoy a cotton-pickina good time as Old Time Farm Day returns to Butler County.

County commissioners will upgrade a broken electronic door system at the Decatur County Prison, in order to make the facility more safe for both the guards and the state inmates who occupy it.

I just finished reading a book about the "First Man of Jazz," New Orleans native, Charles "Buddy" Bolden .

Showers and thunderstorms are expected to increase later today and tonight as a trough of low pressure and a cold front approach the area from the northwest.

About 31 years ago, we had the ribbon cutting for the Butler Activity Training Center in Greenville.

17, 1923, Georgiana, Ala., U.S. died Jan. 1, 1953, Oak Hill, W.Va. Main American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who in the 1950s arguably became country music 's first superstar.

They flew into combat at the controls of an odd-shaped plane with cameras instead of cannons.

The manhunt for an escaped convict from Crenshaw County continued in Goshen late Thursday but was suspended due to weather.

The Pioneer Board of Trustees reviewed preliminary projections Wednesday that suggest a future reduction of the price of electricity for its member/owners. "Our power supplier, PowerSouth, has projected a decrease in the wholesale price of power for the remainder of the year, and, if that happens, we plan to pass that savings on to our customers" ...

By his own admission Percy Simpson isn't feeling very confident these days, the result of losing his job two months ago and living off savings.

The state of Alabama plans to spend more than $6 million in federal stimulus money in an effort to control a pesky, grass-like weed that, much like kudzu, has spread across the state.

A Greenville, Ala., man died after the car he was driving went airborne at railroad tracks on Lameuse Street.

The Greenville YMCA is going through some changes and the Montgomery YMCA is taking over the facility.

On Aug. 5, 1976, a young high school graduate from Greenville, Ala. enlisted in the Navy as a Seaman Recruit with hopes of making his parents proud.