Hillsboro News

HILLSBORO a ' Lawrence County Drug Task Force agents busted a drug-dealing operation Monday, confiscating more than 10 pounds of marijuana.

After more than four decades of serving in public office, state Rep. Bill Dukes, D-Decatur, is giving up politics.

In addition to restaurants, several Valley school cafeterias started off the school year with impressive scores.

Lawrence County Sheriff Gene Mitchell said investigators arrested a Hillsboro man Friday on charges stemming from a fake check scam that targeted area businesses.

A proposed ordinance change to limit the mayora s authority to negotiate legal settlements may draw the first veto from Decatur Mayor Don Stanford.

Funeral services for Leo Terry, age 85, of Decatur, will be Friday August 17, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Shelton Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Dr.

The world celebrated the 40th anniversary of the moon landing June 20, but Rotarians in the Rotary Club of Decatur had a celebration of another kind.

McEntire Lane and Gordon Terry Parkway Southwest was the scene of another accident Friday morning that injured three people.

Troopers say a 15-year-old Hillsboro boy has been killed after he was struck by a vehicle while riding his bicycle with two friends.

HILLSBORO a ' Emergency and law enforcement authorities are at Lawrence County 400 and Alabama 20 where a child on a bike was apparently injured.

A neighborhood in Lawrence County is in mourning today. A 15 year old boy in Hillsboro was killed Thursday after being hit by a car while riding his bike with friends.

The Lawrence County Sheriff's Department has charged a Hillsboro man with sexual abuse of a child.

The Limestone County Sheriff's Department reported the following arrests Tuesday: * Christy Dianne Haygood, 29, of 19375 Sewell Road, Athens, third-degree domestic violence * Christopher Daniel Leslie, 23, of 766 Clutts Road, Harvest, negotiating a worthless negotiable instrument * Ritchie Gene Powell, 40, of 731 County Road 50, Rogersville, two ...

Several historic sites in Colbert County may be facing some large budget cuts. One of those is Ivy Green, the birthplace of Helen Keller.

Decatur Police say the driver of a pickup truck drowned when his vehicle went out of control on a causeway and plunged into the Tennessee River.

Divers pulled a man from his submerged truck that witnesses said ran off the road between two bridges and into the Tennessee River on Friday afternoon.