Jasper News

During a Jasper City Council work session Friday morning, city attorney Russ Robertson announced changes the city had made to contracts related to the new Walker High School project.

Land grading has begun at the future location of Full Moon BBQ in Jasper. The store's owner said it should open by mid-October.

Gov. Robert Bentley signs into law a bill that will allow physician-nurse teams to more efficiently provide care for the state's patients and create more jobs in Alabama's growing health care industry.

JASPER, Ala. - Thieves are targeting donation drop boxes leaving these charitable organizations with less to help those who need it most.

Bevill State Community College is hosting a summer theatre camp on its Jasper campus.

Several area businesses whose purpose is to help the less fortunate are being targeted by thieves.

Gov. Robert Bentley signs Senate Bill 340 in Montgomery. Also in attendance were, from left, Rep. Jim McClendon; Mike Horsley, president of Alabama Hospital Association; Dr. Don Williamson, State Health Officer; Sen. Greg Reed and Stephanie Azar, acting Medicaid commissioner.

Members of the Walker High School Band are learning lessons about giving back. After each of the group's Christmas and spring concerts, the band donates funds to an area charity.

More than 100 people turned out to participate in the inaugural 'Army of Ants' Dash in support of Jasper Police Officer Anthony Hammond, who is currently battling a rare form of blood cancer.

Walker Baptist Medical Center in Jasper was awarded an 'A' rating from The Leapfrog Group, and independent national nonprofit run by employers and purchasers of health benefits, for the hospital's patient safety record.

The distribution is a part of the revenue sharing plan established for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, which is set to end August 31, 2013.

Members of several law enforcement agencies, Emergency Management Agencies, local fire departments, emergency medical personnel and volunteer actors participated in the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program held Wednesday in downtown Jasper.

Lester Wayne Mayer, 86, of Haleyville, Ala., died Friday, May 24, 2013, at Walker Baptist Medical Center in Jasper, Ala.

By JENNIFER COHRON Daily Mountain Eagle The world knew Major Gen. George Smith Patton best as the son of the famous World War II commander of the same name.

The jurors who convicted James Hutto of capital murder over the weekend are now charged with deciding whether he should be sentenced to death.

A middle school trip to Washington, D.C. in 1993 started a dream to work in politics for one Jasper student.

A jury today convicted a Jasper, Ala., man of capital murder in the 2010 death of an 81-year-old Mississippi woman, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger has reported.

A report released Friday shows work done by the Alabama Legislature has had a major impact on reducing methamphetamine production in the state.

The second annual Fibromyalgia Walk in the Park is scheduled for Saturday at Gamble Park in Jasper.

A regional disaster training drill is scheduled for Wednesday in Jasper. Jasper Police Chief Connie Cooner Rowe said the Alabama Department of Homeland Security is sponsoring a simulated disaster experience Wednesday in an effort to have first reponders as prepared as possible should an actual disaster take place.