Lanett News

The Troup County school board has filled several administrative positions for the upcoming school year.

Valley has no city administrator and only an acting police chief; Lanett has been without a city manager since November; and LaFayette until recently had a vacancy on its City Council.

May 20 - The board of Alabama's prepaid college tuition program agreed Wednesday to keep paying tuition for the upcoming school year while it seeks a bailout from the Legislature that will take care of 48,000 participants.

Three months after a deadly crash on a Chambers County highway, Alabama State Troopers are asking for help from the public in piecing together what happened.

Published: Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 6:41 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 7:27 p.m. Pierson Chevrolet's Jeep dealership is one of 789 in the U.S. that Chrysler LLC wants to eliminate as the troubled automaker attempts to survive.

Chrysler LLC has told a bankruptcy court it plans to eliminate 789 of its dealers - or about 25 percent of them - across the country as part of its restructuring process.

The Troup County school board Monday appointed an assistant superintendent of maintenance and operations to succeed Bill Parsons, who announced his retirement earlier this year to become headmaster at Springwood Academy in Lanett, Ala.

The Chambers County Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force is expected to be renewed under a new name tonight.

More than 14 hours after a standoff between law enforcement and a man inside a Valley house began Friday, acting Valley police Chief James Bryan got his wish - a peaceful end.

A LaGrange apartment complex owner claims that Kia Motors is directing out-of-state hires to a Valley, Ala., apartment complex where Randy Jackson, Kia's human resources director, lives for a reduced rate.

New Alabama Press Association officers are, from left, Cy Wood, publisher and editor of the Valley Times-News in Lanett and APA president; Joe Thomas, publisher, editor and advertising manager of The Tri-City ...

A man wanted in the murder of a Lanett woman is in custody after being arrested in Mobile.

Authorities in Lanett, Ala., are searching for the boyfriend of a woman found slain Friday in her East Third Avenue home.

Literacy Volunteers covering the Greater Valley Area is looking to expand after hiring a new director and moving into a new office at 705 S. Jennings Ave.

On Tuesday this week a friend of mine died in America. He was a miracle of what God can do with a man to whom he gave a hammer.

I'd missed his call. "Hey Jennifer! This is Millard Fuller." The message, left on my answering machine in 2006, was complimentary of a story I'd done back then.

The accident happened around 9:15 Friday night on Highway 50, just outside of Lanett.

NEW YORK David Williams has been named city editor of the Anderson Independent-Mail. Previously, he served as Oconee County news bureau chief.

Hundreds paid tribute as Habitat for Humanity founder Millard Fuller was laid to rest at the southwest Georgia farming collective where he developed the concept of building houses for the poor.

Millard Fuller, the millionaire entrepreneur who gave it all away to help found the Christian house-building charity Habitat for Humanity, died Tuesday.