Priceville News

Authorities said they arrested a Somerville man on a child sex abuse charge Tuesday as he attempted to register as a sex offender at the Morgan County Sheriffa s Department.

Build a high school near Interstate 65 and the traffic and children will come. And, when they come, commercial businesses will follow.

Expanding a stretch of Alabama 67 in southeastern Morgan County to four lanes not only will improve safety for motorists but should boost the area economy, officials said.

Stricter air pollution standards could place North Alabamaa s transportation, tourism and industrial growth at risk, a top official with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management says.

Huntsville Fire & Rescue is training its rookie firefighters during a live burn exercise today on Holmes Avenue.

A 7 vehicle crash on I-65 left an 18-wheeler dangling off the Tennessee River Bridge.

The Huntsville Kennel Club and the Decatur Kennel Club are sponsoring a dog show today through Sunday at the Racking Horse Arena on Alabama 67 in Priceville.

The Prepaid Alabama College Tuition board meeting is Wednesday afternoon, and a local Save PACT group is heading to Montgomery to show their support.

Drivers who travel over the Interstate 65 bridge each morning and evening should prepare to wait or plan another route, authorities said.

Decatur Emblem Club member Denise Collins, left, presents Priceville Elementary student Connor Fortenberry with one of more than 3,000 dictionaries to be given to every third-grader in Morgan, Lawrence and Limestone counties.

Overhead traffic warning signs such as the ones above Birmingham interstates may be on the way for commuters between Decatur and Huntsville.

After 27 years aligned with NARCOG, Metropolitan Planning Organization officials are considering a split from the agency.

Scattered across five buildings on one property, Morgan County drug agents collected five a oeshake-and-bakea methamphetamine labs and arrested four people Thursday night, authorities said.

The Morgan County Commission named four of five members to the Public Parks and Recreation Board it created two weeks ago to manage Celebration Arena.

About 300 customers, most of them residential, are in line for sewer here, said Mayor Ray Long after the town opened bids Thursday for Phase 1 of its sewer project.

The Morgan County Board of Education spent roughly $127,000 on the unsuccessful effort to fire Priceville High School Principal Guy Bowling.

Taxpayers aren't footing the bill for some crime fighting tools in Morgan County.

Voters of rural Morgan County cana t be happy with the way their school superintendent and school board handled the Guy Bowling case.

The statea s financial year ended Wednesday with 50,000 taxpayers waiting for $51 million in state income tax refunds.

A stolen car was the center of a high-speed chase through Morgan County Friday morning.