Locust Fork News

An Alabama 19-year-old who saved a 7-year-old boy while also trying to save the boy's 42-year-old father when their canoe capsized on the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River in Warrior, Ala., on March 27 was among 23 people who have been honored with Carnegie medals for heroism.

To The Daily : Most recently in Morgan County, the public servants of Decatur are making it clear that they do not want TEPPCO to build a massive fuel depot a half-mile upstream from Decatura s only drinking water intake.

A 40 percent chance of rain is in the forecast today for the Birmingham metro area, with a high of 70 degrees under cloudy skies, according to the National Weather Service forecast .

Thirty-five volunteers, some in boats and canoes, hauled trash out of the Locust Fork Branch of the Black Warrior River Friday -- about three tons of rubbish and recyclable material.

For more than a decade, coal mining had been considered a thing of the past in Blount County.

A committee meeting of the Birmingham Water Works board turned into a multi-million-dollar bidding contest between two potential buyers of 3,200 acres on the Locust Fork River in Blount County.

Siegelman: Prosecutors think conspiracy to subvert justice 'OK' Share on Facebook Don Siegelman, the former Democratic governor of Alabama who was convicted in what he and his supporters say was an unconstitutional trial motivated by Bush administration politics, has come out fighting against the prosecution's latest motion in his ongoing legal ...

Today's my work holiday so there won't be very many posts. However, I did want to leave you with a roundup of things happening to celebrate our nation's birth.

In one of the more encouraging signs that the Birmingham region is headed in the right direction--at least environmentally speaking in terms of quality of life for it's citizens--Turkey Creek Nature Preserve was officially opened this past weekend.

This past weekendmy family and Iexperienced the beautyofthe Locust Fork Riverfor the first time.

A Locust Fork woman was killed and two Pinson men injured in a two-vehicle crash about 2:30 p.m. Thursday on Alabama 79 in Pinson, Alabama.