Marion News

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.

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday that a prosecutor doesn't have to disclose his list of possible witnesses and their ex pected testimony in the prosecution of a 44-year-old shooting death from the civ il rights era.

The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled a prosecutor doesn't have to disclose his list of possible witnessesand their expected testimony in the prosecution of a 44-year-old shooting death from the civil rights movement.

Meet the modern day Hatfields and McCoys. Two families in Marion, Alabama who've been feuding for the last two or three years incited a riot yesterday involving 150 people.

A simmering feud between two families boiled over into a riot between 150 people, authorities in Alabama say.

MARION - Call it "Law and Disorder." Imagine you're a police officer standing in the middle of a violent disturbance involving up to 200 very angry men, women and teenagers intent on hurting each other.