Jasper News

The Walker County Art Alliance will hold it's sixth annual Art in The Park at Memorial Park in Jasper Saturday.

Jasper - 23 year old Corporal Charles Dustin Parrish of Jasper was laid to rest.

I believe the editorial in Tuesday's Birmingham News, "B-I-N-G-Oh, no!" hit the nail on the head regarding the rush to legalize bingo operations in Birmingham.

Solemn voices echoed throughout Eastside Baptist Church as hundreds of loved ones and friends honored the life of 23-year-old, Jasper native and Army Specialist Charles "dusty" Parrish.

The body of Army Spc. Charles D. "Dusty" Parrish is due to arrive Thursday morning at Birmingham International Airport and he is to be buried Saturday afternoon in his hometown of Jasper.

Jasper, AL - Funeral arrangements are scheduled for later this week for a Jasper soldier killed in Iraq .

Funeral arrangements have now been set for an Alabama soldier killed in Iraq. SPC Charles D. Parrish, 23, of Jasper, died June 4, 2009 in Balad, Iraq, when his vehicle was struck by an anti-tank grenade.

A soldier who died in Iraq last week was one month away from his unit returning to Fort Leonard Wood.

Iraq: As of Saturday, at least 4,311 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

A 23-year-old soldier from Jasper has been killed in rocket-propelled grenade attack in northern Iraq.

As of Friday, June 5, 2009, at least 4,311 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

An Alabama soldier died Thursday from wounds suffered when his vehicle ran over a road side bomb in Iraq.

JASPER - An Alabama pilot and his student escaped injury when they were forced to land a single-engine aircraft in a field near a home in Walker County.

Last week, Marcus Campbell was saddened to learn his dog Boost had been dropped of at the Walker County Humane Society only to be put to sleep less than 30 minutes later.

Case details are below. Maurice Shanklin : Police say 23-year-old Maurice Shanklin lives in Parrish, hangs out in Jasper, and is wanted by authorities in Fultondale.

The Brundidge Historical Society will present a oeIvy Rowe,a the one woman play adapted from the Lee Smith novel, Fair and Tender Ladies, featuring Barbara Bates Smith with music by Jeff Sebens at the We Piddle Around Theater June 11 and 12.

The drive-through and ATM area at the Colonial Bank in Jasper was damaged this morning by severe weather.

Damage to the Colonial Bank on Highway 118 in Jasper. The storms moving through on Wednesday morning left behind some damage.

B.J. Sandlin of Maloy Automotive in Jasper was in the front office when a funnel cloud passed low over the business Wednesday morning.

State troopers say a Walker County woman died in a single-vehicle crash on Scott Cemetery Road, 8 miles west of Jasper, around 7:41 a.m. today.