Russellville News

Electronic bingo moves to the forefront at the statehouse this week. On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider a bill to strip Gov.

Published: Monday, February 8, 2010 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 11:45 p.m. MONTGOMERY Wet-dry votes are being sought this year in small towns in dry counties, including Aliceville and Fayette, under a new law that allows towns with as few as 1,000 people to set alcoholic beverage referendums.

Companion bills intended to settle questions about what makes bingo legal in Alabama were introduced Thursday by North Alabama legislators.

Gov. Bob Riley's gambling task force won another victory Thursday when the Alabama Supreme Court tossed out a court order blocking a raid on the state's largest casino.

MONTGOMERY a ' State Rep. Marcel Black introduced a bill that would legalize gambling in specific locations in every congressional district in the state and regulate and tax the operations.

The Alabama law Foundation has announced the recipients of their Kids' Chance Scholarship Fund.

A man named Elvis Adam Presley who escaped from the Franklin County Community Corrections Program was found hiding in a closet at his mother's apartment Tuesday, officials told the TimesDaily newspaper.

A costly and unsightly problem doesn't seem to be going away in Russellville. Graffiti was splashed across three more businesses over the weekend.

The Alabama Education Association won another round in a legislative battle over a code of ethics for public school teachers statewide.

Democratic state Sen. Roger Bedford says he wants an apology from Republicans after the Alabama Examiners of Public Accounts found no misuse of funds by 2 nonprofit organizations that Bedford helped set up for 2 coal-producing west Alabama counties, the TimesDaily newspaper of Florence reports.

HUNTSVILLE, AL The first baby born in North Alabama in 2010 came into the world in Russellville.

Sgt. 1st Class Cliff Knight won first place in the 2008 Franklin County Watermelon Festival in Russellville by displaying a 199-pound whopper he grew in his vegetable garden at Flint.

In this photo provided by the Alabama Power Public Relations, a flock of whooping cranes migrating from Wisconsin to Florida are shown.

RUSSELLVILLE, AL One person was killed and two people were injured in a collision in Franklin County Tuesday afternoon.

Share + Dec 21, 2009 5:11 pm US/Eastern RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. A flock of 20 Florida-bound juvenile whooping cranes will spend Christmas in Alabama.

The search is over for the voice of Alabama's under 25 crowd. The public's top pick is a man from Florence.

A northwest Alabama woman has pleaded guilty to causing the death of her newborn son by using methamphetamine three days before he was born.

A Russellville woman said she used methamphetamine 72 hours before her son was born prematurely, The TimesDaily reports.

RUSSELLVILLE, AL A ban on storefront churches in downtown Russellville may happen soon.

A 79-year-old Franklin County man has been indicted for inappropriately touching a teenage girl who is a person known to him, the TimesDaily of Florence reports.