Uniontown News

Tennesseans were up in arms a few months ago when more than 5 million cubic yards of coal ash poured through a breach in an earthen dam and damaged homes in the community of Harriman.

In Uniontown there is a cloud of uncertainty over the shipment of coal ash to the Arrowhead Landfill a few miles away.

Officials are wondering how to cover the bills four Alabama fugitives are running up for Stark County .

Thes undated photos released by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows 22-year-old Ashton Kenny Chase Mink, right, and 26-year-old Joshua Loyd Southwick.

By Barbara Evans Once more Alabama's Black Belt is subject to another environmental insult.

A large landfill in Perry county plans to double its daily intake. Arrowhead Landfill filed for a permit modification with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.

Ironically, the state is not renewing its contract with the same private prison where two men escaped last week.

A prosecutor says two of four Alabama fugitives captured after a weekend standoff in southwestern North Dakota are due in court to face charges of conspiracy to commit robbery.

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Authorities say two men who escaped a rural Alabama prison have been arrested with two suspected accomplices after a nearly 14-hour standoff 1,700 miles away in North Dakota.

BIRMINGHAM - The nation's largest public utility plans to dispose of millions of tons of coal ash from a massive spill in Tennessee into a giant landfill in one of Alabama's poorest counties, state environmental officials said Friday.

U.S. Marshals are looking for two Perry County escapees and two people believed to be connected form the prison break May 25.

Uniontown's Harvest Select Catfish, one of the South's major catfish processors, has promoted Russ McPherson, to director of technical services.

Authorities are searching for two state prisoners who have escaped from a private prison in Perry County.

A short time later, they were riding with Demopolis police. a oeWe got a call at about 10 p.m. Thursday night,a said Demopolis police chief Tommie Reese.

The purpose is to raise awareness about poverty and substandard housing throughout the Black Belt, the most poverty-stricken counties in Alabama.

CAMDEN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. WINDS UP TO 30 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY UNIONTOWN.

The French writer Maurice Blanchot compared images to cadavers - the remains left behind after the person is gone, bearing strong resemblances but without their essential living characteristics.

The National Weather Service confirms there is damage in Perry County as a result of a late night storm system.