Marion News

Said the people to TVA, "This is another fine mess you've gotten us into." Well, almost.

Early projections indicate that several hundred jobs indirectly tied to New Era Cap Companya s plant could be affected by its closure, but those job losses will affect nine Black Belt counties differently.

'Coretta had all the faith,' said Coretta Scott King's first cousin, Mary Scott Hicks.Mary saw that faith tested time and time again, even before Coretta married Martin Luther King Jr., in 1953.

The Alabama Women's Hall of Fame will induct two pioneers on March 4 at Judson College in Marion.

"The Pacific," a sprawling miniseries epic from HBO that is based in part on a World War II memoir by an Alabama Marine, will premiere on the premium cable channel March 14.

Three schools within the Alabama Two Year College System received a spot on a national "best of" list.

This aerial view shows the scale of the Arrowhead landfill in Perry County where TVA coal ash is being disposed.

If she could throw as she once could, Ruby Holmes could walk across the road in front of her house and toss a rock over a treeline and have it land in the sprawling landfill that has been operating there the past two years.

A decorated combat veteran of Vietnam lashed out Wednesday at an Army offi cer accused of going on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas last week.

MARION, Ala. - The sign going on the front door at the Perry County courthouse reads: "Closed for the Obama Holiday." The rural, mostly black county has proclaimed tomorrow as an official holiday celebrating the election of the nation's first black president, Barack Obama.

The sign going on the front door at the Perry County courthouse reads: "Closed for the Obama Holiday." The rural, mostly black county has proclaimed Monday as an official holiday celebrating the election of the nation's first black president, Barack Obama.

President Barack Obama is being honored with his own holiday in Perry County. The Alabama Black Belt county that gained national attention when it established a holiday to honor Barack Obama's presidential election is celebrating that holiday with five days of activities.

MARION -- John Collins, a country boy from west Alabama who was decorated for bravery in three wars, is well aware that he's in his twilight years and he knows just where his last stop will be.

MARION - A former state trooper has been indicted in west Alabama on a charge of first-degree sex abuse.

MARION - Alabama is the home of many war heroes and John Gibler is more than happy to conduct guided tours through a little building that salutes their combat accomplishments.

District IV extends as far north as Lamar, Fayette and Walker counties and as far south as Marengo County.

Hinds Community College's Lady Eagles soccer team shut out Marion Military Institute Sunday with an impressive 14-0 victory in Marion, Ala.

Last Wednesday, Gov. Bob Riley announced the award of more than $18 million in stimulus money to Alabama counties to assist communities in helping low-income individuals and families who struggle in poverty.

Police officers enter Marion City Hall. A feud between two families in Marion boiled over at Francis Marion High School, resulting in a civil disturbance on the town square when arrests were made Aug.

Retired trooper James Bonard Fowler surrendered this morning on two counts of murder in Marion in the 1965 slaying of Jimmie Lee Jackson.