Section News

While enjoying Fourth of July celebrations this weekend, local revelers should be knowledgeable about the laws regarding alcohol in Cullman County.

A marijuana eradication run over Jackson County late last week resulted in 11 plants being found.

The Jackson County Board of Education approved a number of personnel moves Thursday night, including the hiring of a new Woodville High School principal.

A Section man, accused of assaulting a police officer, pleaded guilty to Assault Second Degree recently in Jackson County Circuit Judge John Graham's courtroom.

An 18-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a high-speed illegal race along Interstate 59 in Ft.

In front of elected officials, doctors and educators, it was five fifth-graders who shined the brightest Thursday at Scottsboro City Hall.

Five Jackson County elementary students will be honored Thursday in Scottsboro for their participation in a state poster contest sponsored by Tar Wars, a national tobacco-free education organization.

Bids were to be opened today to hire a contractor to assist in debris pickup still remaining in Scottsboro.

A lawsuit filed on May 18 to maintain a closed public road became public on Tuesday at the Dekalb County Commission meeting.

Three area teens, including one from Prattville, are free on bond after their recent arrests on charges they killed a sow and five piglets during what Autau ga County Sheriff's Office detec tives believe was a practical joke that went awry.

The Jackson County Sheriff's Office continues to investigate counterfeit checks being cashed throughout the area.

A month-long joint investigation led to charges against a DeKalb County man in a burglary that took place on County Road 19 in Section.

The Section Lions Club has chosen Larry Doyle Farr as its Lion of the Year. Farr and his wife, Joyce Myers, moved to Section from the Swearengin community near Grant in 1986.

Northeast Alabama Community College is located on Sand Mountain right on the DeKalb and Jackson county lines.

In today's paper, you will find our final section of Profiles 2009, People 101. And I, along with Jason Bowen and Chasity Brown, say that with very much happiness.

Submitted by WDEF on April 13, 2009 - 7:01pm. Chattooga County News DeKalb County News Jackson County News McMinn County News Sequatchie County News A A A A Parts of our area are still cleaning up from the Good Friday storm damage.

Officials from the Red Cross and the Emergency Management Agency are surveying the damage from a tornado that cut a path of destruction Friday afternoon through north Marshall County, the southern tip of Jackson County and across DeKalb County's Sand Mountain communities of Section, Macedonia and Sylvania.

It was a tornado. That word came through loud and clear from rural parts of Jackson, Marshall and DeKalb County late Friday after a strong storm system moved through the area at mid-afternoon even thoght there had been no confirmation from the National Weather Service.

Severe storms caused significant damage in northeast Alabama today. Reported tornadoes hit homes, downed trees and have made it tough for rescue crews to get to people who need help.

Donny Hicks of Section said he was leaving the North Shore campground on South Sauty Creek here Friday afternoon with his American spitz dog, Trixie, when he heard and then saw a tornado that snapped 100-foot pine trees in two all around him.