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When Abner White was 23 years old, he walked into bank after bank, with his hat in his hand, asking for a loan to "create something new." "I even applied with the Small Business Association but they all wanted to see my balance sheet," White said.

It's not every day that you get a World War II Nazi flag in the mail. Even more surprising than getting the flag was finding the names of a number of southeast Alabama men and their hometowns written on it .

The Town of Goshen Water Department posted losses for the second straight month, according to the Goshen Town Council, which met on Thursday.

Members of the Mont gomery Country Club with children and grandchildren in the ninth grade recently honored their teens with a dance in the club's grand ballroom -- a nearly 50-year-old tradition that began as a way for the area students to celebrate the beginning of their high school years.

Eight out of 10 students who drop out of high school will spend time in prison. Thata s a fact Buffy Lusk, chair of the GOT committee, said should be sobering for all high school students but evidently ita s not.

Goshen residents will soon see an increase on their water bills. The Goshen City Council approved an ordinance last night that will raise the charges for water usage in Goshen.

Zion Chapel Elementary School students have one goal in common - to raise funds to provide a cure for cancer.

Jack Leser's doing lunch milk-free. Cook Station, a convenience store and diner, has no milk for customers after a major dairy distributor dropped the store's account.

"I don't know how to say how great a storyteller Donald Davis is," said Wynn Montgomery of Atlanta.

The Goshen City Council will have to fill a vacant seat, after one of the two returning council members announced his resignation this month.

Today marks the beginning of a new year, but there are just some things that wona t change this early.

VALECIO JAMMELL SMITH, 20, of Ensley, has been sentenced to 147 months by United Sta tes District Court Judge L. Scott Coogler, for car-jacking a 1997 Chevrolet Corsica and using a firearm in furtherance of ...