Kinston News

Seven new teachers will be in the classroom in the Coffee County School System this fall.

A Kinston man faces two to 20 years in prison after a Geneva County jury found him guilty Thursday of shooting a Samson man to death the day after Christmas in 2007.

Gary Petty and Foyl Hudgens place wreaths in memory of those who gave their lives in military service.

Andalusia 15-year-old Zak Wallace recently won his first race at the South Alabama Speedway in Kinston.

New Brockton Town Council members are seeking new ways to generate funds, and one of those ways may be providing the residents with garbage pickup service.

The Coffee County Board of Education recognized high school students Tuesday night during the 16th annual Coffee County BOE Academic and Leadership Awards.

Alabama State Trooper Michael Gillis may be brave, but he does not pretend to be fearless.

An Alabama man who went on a shooting rampage in March, killing 10 people and himself, left a note saying he put his mother "out of her misery" and that "some of the people who made us suffer will pay," according to newly released police records.

Ellie Caroline Bradshaw celebrated her fifth birthday, Thursday, March 26, 2009.

A Kinston High School teacher admits she is a science fanatic. Angela Kelley, who teachers 10th through 12th graders, wants to show students science is exciting and wants to make a huge impact on them.

Bad news is everywhere these days. It's not the first time and it won't be the last.

The United States Conference of Mayors cites the shooting of 10 people in Samson, Alabama as an example of the need for stronger public safety attention including gun safety policy.

The following driving while impaired arrests were reported by the State Highway Patrol: David J. Maitland, 40, 707 College St., Kinston, Mar.

In an incident Coffee County Schools Superintendent Linda Ingram described as "horseplay," a Kinston High School student cut another student with a pocket knife while the youths were riding home on a school bus Monday afternoon.

Few people talk about gun control much anymore. You might say the mighty National Rifle Association has won the day, beating the proponents of reasonable control measures into submission.

The deployment of 22 active-duty military police and the provost marshal from Fort Rucker, Ala., to the scene of a civilian killing spree 25 miles from post may have violated federal law.

Coffee County resident Paul Smith looks down the dirt road he lives on and sees part of his mobile home roof lying in the mud.

March 17 - The funeral procession for four people killed in a 24-mile shooting spree in south Alabama retraced part of the gunman's route Tuesday, and the small, tight-knit town tried mightily to move beyond the carnage that has come to define it.

Family and friends said goodbye yesterday.. to two of the victims killed in the South Alabama shooting spree.Tuesday, 28 year-old Michael McLendon shot and killed ten people in the cities of Kinston, Samson and ...

Gov. Bob Riley wants Alabamians to remember the victims, their families and communities in south Alabama affected by last week's shooting rampage that left 11 dead in South Alabama.