Monroeville News

Nov. 20 -- A stunning development in a story that's had our community on edge this week.

Fruitcake isna t among my must-have holiday favorites, but a short story about making fruitcakes is very high on my holiday list.

DeShon Riley stands charged with felony rape in Monroe County. Justin Williams stands accused of felony rape in Monroe County.

Nov. 19 - It's a crime sending shockwaves throughout a South Alabama community: two teenage girls allegedly gang raped.

Nov. 18 - Two teenage boys and a young man are accused in the gang rape of two 14 year old girls.

Nov. 18 - Two teenagers and a man are accused of gang raping two 14-year-old girls.

One Monroeville-area teenager was being held in the Monroe County Detention Facility and authorities were seeking two others in connection with the alleged gang rape Monday of one 14-year-old girl and the attempted rape of a second, authorities said.

Alabama Southern Community College announced late last week that it would not provide its classes at the Demopolis Higher Education Center for the Spring 2010 semester.

A 30-year-old Beatrice man, charged with capital murder, remained in the Monroe County Detention Facility without bail Tuesday after an 81-year-old man was found dead with a gunshot wound to the back of the head.

In 1966, Truman Capote recorded the narration for the television adaptation of "A Christmas Memory" that appeared on the weekly series "ABC Stage 67." It's fruitcake weather in Monroeville.

ThyssenKrupp Steel USA and ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA will hold a job fair Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Wilcox Central High School in Camden, Ala., the steelmaker said.

Fruitcake's just a big joke -- until you taste a good one. No, really. Fruitcake mak er extraordinaire Aubret H. White of Autauga County coaxed me into sampling his fruitcake just before Christ mas of 2008, and I was pleas antly surprised with the de licious blend of fruit and nuts.

Dallas Voice :: Sweet homo Alabama : "In tiny Monroeville, Ala. , Sandy Smith, executive director of the towna s Chamber of Commerce, wears a Truman Capote T-shirt. She stands proudly in a section of the towna s museum dedicated to the gay author who spent his early childhood there.

PASA hosts a traveling theatrical version of To Kill a Mockingbird Sunday at the Heymann Performing Arts Center while Lafayette reads the best-selling novel by Harper Lee as part of Acadiana's 'Big Read.' To glimpse into the history of the Pulitzer Prize-winning tale and its legendary author, travel to Monroeville, Ala., where you can enter the ...

Harper Lee grew up with Truman Capote in small-town Alabama and wrote the bestselling novel of the 20th century.

A cold front will move through the area bringing cooler and less humid air to the region beginning tonight and continuing through Thursday.

Hundreds of people with widely varying job skills filed into the Cooper Center at Alabama Southern Community College on Tuesday, each hoping for a shot to work at the 1,400-employee ThyssenKrupp Steel and Stainless plants in Calvert.

Sept. 22- Much of Monroe County was built with wood, the lumber industry. So when the housing market went sour, many companies had to shut their doors.

Sept. 21 - Thyssenkrupp Steel Mill is hosting job fairs in two southwest Alabama communities hit hard by job loss and plant closures.

Aug. 7 - A Monroeville woman is accused of shooting her brother in the face. Monroe County Sheriff's deputies say Carolyn Hutcherson shot her brother, Daniel Hutcherson, at their parents' home Wednesday.