Jones News

The old saying 'Figures don't lie, but liars do figure' is no more true than in the front-page story blurb in the June 14 Advertiser headlined 'State of Violence.' Reading through the article, I discovered that the so-called 'survey' giving Alabama such a poor record of gun violence was created by none other than the Violence Policy Center, one of ...

Almost 600 friends, relatives and dignitaries gave U.S. Army Sgt. Ricky DeWayne "MoJoe" Jones a final salute Saturday and sent him home.

A Fort Polk, La. funeral detail carries the body of Sgt. Ricky D. Jones, 26. The body of Sgt.

Sheryl Smedley has been selected as director of the Selma-Dallas County Chamber of Commerce.

U.S. Army Sergeant Ricky Jones of Plantersville died in Afghanistan over the weekend.

Everybody knew him as "Mojo." But officially, he was known as U.S. Army Sgt. Ricky Dewayne Jones.

Some 30 towns across Alabama are participating in Saturday walking tours throughout June.

Federal Emergency Management Agency representatives have agreed to take a second look at the damage in Autauga and Montgomery counties, and they now will also assess private property damage in Bullock County.

The Jonathan Daniels CDC is one of six organizations to receive a grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation for its Healthy Programs Linking Alabama Youth, a six-week health and nutrition camp, to increase physical activity, nutrition education and behavior changes in youth.

Prattville Mayor Jim Byard Jr. reported late this week that the level of fecal bacteria in Pine Creek has returned to normal as swiftly moving waters have helped rid the creek of most of the contamination caused by a massive sewage leak that was discovered May 14.

Two attempted murder suspects arrested Friday went before a judge for a bond hearing Wednesday afternoon.

As far as Pat Chambers of Centreville was concerned about Saturday's weather, "I like it." Chambers and fishing partner Mike McMillian fought the showers all day and culled bass from first light to win the inaugural Buddy Bass Tournament at Selma City Marina.

Mark Collie, performing at Kickers Saturday, won film festivals galore with his 1998 portrayal of Johnny Cash in "I Still Miss Someone." "He asked me to play him," Collie says about Cash, who died in 2003.

Selma police have arrested two men as suspects in a shooting at G.W.C. Homes. The shooting occurred mid-afternoon Friday.

Bass anglers who want to cash in on a stringer of big bass still have time to enter Saturdaya s inaugural Buddy Bass Tournament at the Selma City Marina.

SELMA -- Circuit Judge Tommy Jones has known since childhood that he's descended from one of Alabama's most famous adopted sons, but he never dreamed that, one day, he'd be compared with a biblical icon.

Whenever someone commits a crime, Maury Mitchell and the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center finds out about it.

A Selma resident joined a collaborator behind bars Tuesday morning for a crime they both pleaded guilty to.

Eleanor Cunningham, the site director of Magnolia Grove and Gaineswood, has been appointed chairman of the education committee of the newly-created board of directors for the Alabama Black Belt Heritage Area.

The Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission accused Hale County Circuit Court Judge Marvin W. Wiggins - who also hears cases in Dallas County - of ethical violations stemming from his management of a voter fraud investigation involving three relatives.