Vance News

"It is the sum of who I am. Professionally, I find homes for people, but there is a connection with my tribal ancestry as well," Sims said.

David Seale, 9, gets a licking from his border collie, Michael, as his mother Judy looks on, Thursday, April 16, 2009 at their home in Vance, Ala.

From the article: This precedes any D&D book by several years, and is a plausible source for the word.

Straehle + Hess USA, Inc.'s expansion will bring about 20 more jobs. The company specializes in high end textiles for automobile manufacturers such as Audi, Mercedes Benz and Porsche.

When you're an automobile manufacturing plant and people stop buying your cars, where do you put them all? As it turns out, you put them at the Sharpsburg-McCollum Road exit in Coweta County.

The Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa County will collect $11.5 million in tax breaks for a $290 million expansion that won't create any new jobs, under a plan approved by the area's industrial development authority.

VANCE, Ala. - Mercedes-Benz has been approved for more than $11 million in tax breaks to expand its body shop and buy new equipment at its Tuscaloosa County plant.

With the recession saturating the media, news of expansion in manufacturing is certainly positive.

Double-digit unemployment rates are back in many Alabama counties. Less than two years ago, no Alabama county had a jobless rate higher than 8.4 percent.

Aston Martin's Lagonda SUV was easily the top attention-getter at the auto show here.

Only three years ago it seemed as though new homes were popping up all over Tuscaloosa County.

Three Montgomery police officers are recovering from injuries sustained in a wreck Wednesday while responding to the area where a robbery suspect was last seen.

It's no secret times are tough, and for Mercedes-Benz's workers in Alabama, they're only getting tougher.