Valley News

<![CDATA[VALLEY, Ala. (AP) -- Valley police are seeking help from the public as they investigate the sexual assault of a 91-year-old woman in her home. The Opelika-Auburn News reports (http://bit.ly/10EZ81w) that police and paramedics responded to the woman's home at 8:44 p.m. Saturday. Valley Police Chief Tommy Weldon said the woman was locking her doors and saw the suspect standing on her back porch when she went to lock the back door. Police say the suspect asked to come inside and use her phone, and she refused. Authorities say he then forced his way inside her home and assaulted her. ___ Information from: Opelika-Auburn News, http://www.oanow.com/

A 91-year-old Valley, Ala. woman reported she was sexually assaulted in a residence on the 1500 block of 55th Street Saturday, according to a Valley Police Department press release.

Cherokee tribal leader Rowland Mathews from Gunter Mountain in Marshall County, Alabama, blesses Cherokee Purple Tomato seedlings during the ceremony on May 2, 2013, that marked the beginning of a tour of counties from northeast Alabama to the Birmingham area to promote interest and raise funds for the Paint Rock Valley History Project and also to ... (more)

<![CDATA[VALLEY, Ala. (AP) -- A high school in east Alabama was put on lockdown Thursday after police found a large amount of marijuana and a loaded AK-47 in a student's car. Several law enforcement agencies were conducting a surprise joint search for illegal drugs and a drug-sniffing dog became fixated on a car in Valley High School's parking lot. The school is about 25 miles northeast of Auburn, near the Georgia state line. Authorities say they recovered 18 bags of marijuana and arrested a 16-year-old student on charges of unlawful possession of marijuana and possession of a deadly weapon on the premises of a public school. The unidentified teen was taken to the Lee County Youth Development Center.

West Point City Council decided Monday night to give the majority of money set aside for libraries to Hawkes Library in West Point.