Hackleburg News

After the horrific tornadoes ripped through the southeast last year, The Montgomery Academy formed a tornado relief effort team to partner with a school in an affected area.

Scientists at the National Weather Service in Huntsville are asking North Alabama residents to contribute to a historical and educational display about the tornado outbreak of April 27, 2011.

Franklin County officials say they've captured a man who escaped from a work release prison facility in Winston County earlier this week.

RANT: For the reduced crop acreage in Alabama, where farmers across the state have planted less produce than usual because they fear the labor needed to harvest it may not be available.

Six firefightersA fromA Baldwin Independent Fire Company No. 1 A are heading back to Hackleburg, AL, from June 9-13 to deliverA fire equipment and to help rebuild an area ravaged by tornadoes in the spring of 2011.

The man most people know as Mr. Penny is recovering at his home in Auburn after almost three months in the hospital.

A Tuscaloosa woman and a Hackleburg man have been charged with lying to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to try to get disaster aid after the massive tornado outbreak last year.