Marion News

A Marion County man who confessed to sexually abusing two different girls nearly 20 years ago and a Red Bay man accused of trying to kill his live-in girlfriend in February of 2010 pleaded guilty before their cases were set to go to trial this past week, officials said.

During the week long festivities, the University will honor the memory of the bold visionaries who helped establish a legacy of education that continues to touch lives around the world.

Thousands of civil rights supporters gather outside a chapel in Selma, Ala., on March 21, 1965, the start of a five-day, fifty-mile march on the Alabama state Capitol at Montgomery.

Loren Fay Taylor, 91, of Marion, Alabama and formerly of Penfield, died Friday, January 6, 2012, following an extended illness.