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Veterans and supporters from the area celebrated Veterans Day, also known as Armistice or Remembrance Day, at its traditional time of the 11th month, on the 11th day and at the 11th hour, at Memorial Stadium.

" "For God and Country is the motto of the national American Legion organization founded in 1919, and Selma's Thomas R. Mackin Post 20 has the honor once again of sponsoring this year's Veterans Day celebration that will take place at Memorial Stadium on Monday at 11 a.m. We urge you to come early in the company of family and friends to enjoy the ...

Peeping through my Venetian blind, I simply stood, breathless at the beauty of an October Indian summer with its clear, blue ocean of a sky and its white ships of clouds.

SELMA -- Nationally known storytellers, basket weavers, jewelry makers and cotton candy will vie for the public's attention during a two-day festival in Selma on Friday and Saturday.

'Search and rescue! Anyone in here? If you can, come to the sound of my voice.' 'I can't. I'm trapped!' 'OK, we'll come to you!' It was only a drill, but mem bers of a Community Emergen cy Response Teams, or CERT, carried out their duties at a mock apartment collapse site Wednesday as if they were deal ing with a real crisis.

SELMA -- After making history as Selma's first black firefighter and, later, chief of the department, the last thing Henry Allen expected was to become history as he neared retirement.

Linebacker Dont'a Hightower was an immediate standout from Alabama's 2008 signing class.

A consultant helping Alabama's two-year college system hire a new chancellor has recommended seven people for the position, left vacant when former Chancellor Bradley Byrne resigned to run for governor.

The Autauga County Chapter of University of Alabama Fans is having its fall 'Bama Blast on Oct.

When Michael Barlow leaves prison he will be 80 years old. Barlow, 45, was sentenced Tuesday in Circuit Judge Jack Meigs' courtroom.

On July 9, 2009, our cabin on Riv erbend Road, Plaster's Landing, caught fire. When we arrived on the scene, there were fire trucks, water trucks and firemen everywhere.

Much needed rain in the extremely drought-stricken southern part of Texas cut short a 14-day assignment for 12 wildland firefighters from the Alabama Forestry Commission .

British police announced recently that they would be reopening a case into one of the country's most famous musician - " Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones.

It took more than four decades to indict a former Alabama state trooper in a landmark civil rights slaying, and getting the elderly defendant to trial is taking years, too.

Although it opened its doors little more than three months ago, the Selma Teen Challenge branch has made an impact and opened an avenue for Dallas County adults battling addiction problems.

On Tuesday, 10 men were arrested on charges of soliciting prostitution during a sting conducted by the West Precinct of Montgomery Police Department's Patrol Division.

Two teens well under the age to legally qualify for an Alabama gun permit were arrested Tuesday for burglarizing a home and taking seven firearms.

A new feature of the Selma-Dallas County Public Library stands where two stacks of books were housed.

Mobile officials hope to highlight the city's history of relative racial harmony and political unity when they celebrate its newest park this evening.

The Upward Bound program is a pre-college preparatory program, funded through the department of education to develop the skills and motivation necessary for the students to succeed in college.