Sheffield News

From left are bassist Quentin Berry, guitarist Dale Drinkard, singer Erid Erdman and drummer Tim Stanton.

An update on a teacher in Colbert County who is charged with rape and sodomy. Amanda Watkins, a teacher at Sheffield Junior High School, has been fired.

The Sheffield school board voted unanimously Tuesday night to fire Amanda Watkins, an eighth-grade teacher at Sheffield Junior High who was charged in December with rape and sodomy of a ninth-grader, the TimesDaily newspaper reports.

A registered sex offender charged with sexual abuse in 2008 is back in jail after police say he was accused of inappropriately touching a 14-year-old Sheffield girl last year, the TimesDaily newspaper reports this morning.

The wife and son of Cherokee Mayor Chuck Lansdell have filed complaints saying they were assaulted by a woman after a town council meeting.

I pled guilty to a first offense DUI in North Courtland City Court and my driver's license was supposed to be suspended for 90 days as part of the agreement that we reached.

Amanda Watkins, a 38-year-old 8th grade English teacher at Sheffield Junior High School in Alabama was arrested Saturday on allegations she had sex with a 15-year-old student.

A disagreement about rent payments may have led to the shooting deaths of a Hatton couple, relatives said Monday.

Officials in Lawrence County say a couple has been found shot to death in their home, and a businessman has been charged with murder.

A Sheffield Junior High School teacher has been charged with rape and sodomy after authorities said she was caught with a Sheffield High ninth-grader. Police detective Capt.

A Sheffield businessman is facing charges in connection with the Sunday morning shooting deaths of a Lawrence County husband and wife.

A 49-year-old man severely burned in a Sunday house fire died early Monday morning at UAB Hospital.. Sheffield Fire Marshal Terry Lenz said in a TimesDaily newspaper report that his office notified the state fire marshal's office about the death of Charles Butler of 2709 E. Fifth Ave.

A Sheffield man has died after being badly burned in a house fire early Sunday at a home on East Fifth Avenue in Sheffield.

Huntsville Hospital is considering a possible merger with four fellow not-for-profit hospitals in the Shoals area.

One persona s junk is Tammie Clarka s art. Whether ita s perm rollers, paper towel centers or tubes of hair color, Clark turns obscure items into art and an educational lesson for her Somerville Road and West Decatur elementary schools students.

You probably know the place from Lynyrd Skynyrd. Muscle Shoals and Florence, Ala., nestled at the top of the state along the Tennessee River, own a special kind of history that resonates with music, a place to pick you up 'when you're feeling blue.' The area is home to many recording studios, some recently opened such as The Nutt House by ...

The search for a Florence man who held a machete to the throat of a local woman during a robbery is intensifying, Sheffield police told the TimesDaily newspaper.

The Florence Police Department is searching for an accused trailer thief. William Henry Mance, 44, is wanted for first-degree theft of property.

A missing person report has been issued for Richard Goodale Kelly of Sheffield, who had been living with his sister, but left after an argument Nov.

An increase in rail traffic has caused Norfolk Southern Railway to recall furloughed workers in northwest Alabama.